Essays and Book Reviews and Short Fiction
CREATIVE NONFICTION AND ESSAYS
- “Gray Area”
- “Appallingly Specific, Unhappy Christmases”
- “My Unsentimental Education”
- “Sex Trade: The Regional Version” (my title, changed to something more salacious by the headline editors!)
- Excerpt from On the Outskirts of Normal
- “Beauty Lessons: What I Wish My Daughter Knew”
- “Just Talk”
- Book Excerpt in the Dallas Morning News
BOOK REVIEWS AND ESSAYS ABOUT BOOKS
- “Michael Ondaatje’s Ambitious Return”
- “Bird Cloud: Annie Proulx’s Real Estate Porn”
- “Long Last Happy”
- “Alexandra Styron’s Reading my Father“
- “God and Satan Roam the Pages of this Memoir”
- Review: Paul Auster’s characters Rooted in the Past
- Review: Rodney Crowell’s Chinaberry Sidewalks
- “Jayne Anne Phillips Rocks: A Reader’s Retrospective”
