Essays
CREATIVE NONFICTION AND ESSAYS
- Trouble in Mind. The Rumpus
- Excerpt. My Unsentimental Education. Longreads
- A Woman with Ambition. Salon.com
- When Elite Volunteers Dominate, Kids Lose. New York Times
- Why I Wrote About Sex. The Nervous Breakdown
- It’s Only Oblivion. The American Scholar
- You’re In Trouble. Am I Right? Longreads
- Transit (1986). Hobart
- Gray Area. Guernica
- 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
- Excerpt. On the Outskirts of Normal. 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
