Essays
CREATIVE NONFICTION AND ESSAYS
- “When Elite Volunteers Dominate, Kids Lose.” New York Times
- “Why I Wrote About Sex.” The Nervous Breakdown
- “You’re In Trouble. Am I Right?” Atlantic Monthly’s Longreads.com
- “Gray Area.” Guernica
- “Appallingly Specific, Unhappy Christmases.” Wake: Great Lakes Thought & Culture
- “The Sex Trade in Northwest Wisconsin.” The Morning News
- Excerpt from On the Outskirts of Normal. The Nervous Breakdown
- “Beauty Lessons: What I Wish My Daughter Knew.” Midlife at the Oasis
- “Just Talk.” Texas Observer
- Book Excerpt. Dallas Morning News
BOOK REVIEWS AND ESSAYS ABOUT BOOKS
- “The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje”
- “Bird Cloud: Annie Proulx’s Real Estate Porn”
- “Long Last Happy by Barry Hannah“
- “Alexandra Styron’s Reading my Father“
- “God and Satan Roam the Pages of this Memoir”
- Paul Auster’s characters Rooted in the Past
- Rodney Crowell’s Chinaberry Sidewalks
- “Jayne Anne Phillips Rocks: A Reader’s Retrospective”
