Selected Writing

Book Criticism & Features

Chloé Cooper Jones’s Debut Memoir, Easy Beauty, Holds Up A Mirror to the Able-Bodied World, Oprah Daily [PDF]

"The School for Good Mothers" book cover next to author photo

Jessamine Chan’s Explosive The School for Good Mothers Probes a Parent’s Worst Nightmare, Oprah Daily [PDF]

A Murder Mystery That Refuses to Be Solved, Vulture [PDF]

Motherhood Is More Than Difficult In These New Books — It’s Horrific, BuzzFeed News [PDF]

I'm Still Thinking About This Book About The Worst Earthquake In US History A Year After Reading It, BuzzFeed News [PDF]

How 'Harriet the Spy' Turned Me Into a Writer, Nylon [PDF]

Lifestyle & Culture

What the Heck Happened to My Body During Reiki?, The Cut [PDF]

Harriett’s Bookshop Owner Jeannine Cook Says Connection Is at the Root of Everything, Oprah Daily [PDF]

Why Do Humans Talk to Animals If They Can’t Understand?, The Atlantic [PDF]

Fighting For Hip-Hop in the Whitest City in America, BuzzFeed News [PDF]

There Are More Plus-Size Men Than Ever. So Why Are They Still Getting the Dregs of Fashion?, Esquire [PDF]

The Ivanka Trump Brand’s Supply Chain Is Seemingly Untraceable, Racked/Vox [PDF]

Personal Essays

How Do We Survive Suicide?, Catapult

Memory Can Help Us Survive Depression, But It Can Also Hold Us Back, BuzzFeed News [PDF]

Christmas on a Slider, Eater/Vox [PDF]

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Book Criticism & Features

The Best Memoirs of 2022, Vulture

Sarah Blake’s Clean Air Is a Cli-Fi Novel For Our Times, Oprah Daily [PDF]

Audiobooks Are—And I Can’t Stress This Enough—Saving My Sanity, BuzzFeed News

This Is the End: Undertaking a Journey to Beat the Fear of Death, The Guardian

The 'Nature Poem' Bucking Stereotypes About Native Americans, Pacific Standard

The 200-Year Old Book That Sent The East Coast Into A Sex Panic, Atlas Obscura

Renata Adler on Fearlessness and Becoming a Late-in-Life Icon, BuzzFeed

Lifestyle & Culture

Not Sitting Quietly Anymore: How Librarians Are Fighting Trump, Broadly

Counter Culture: Foot Soldiers of the New Food Movements, The Fader

Inside McMansion Hell, The Hairpin [PDF]

What Resale Apps Have Learned From Yard Sales, Racked

The Death Industry Goes Digital, Mel Magazine

Personal Essays

I Can't Live Without Fear But I Can Learn To Be OK With It, BuzzFeed News

Learning to Cook After Relearning to Eat, Catapult

I Found My Voice as a Writer in Justin Timberlake Fan Fiction, BuzzFeed

I Learned the Sound of Glamour From My Mother, Racked

Instead Of Losing Weight, I Just Lost The Clothes I Hated, BuzzFeed

Life After Debt, BuzzFeed

Mount Defiance At Starvation Ridge, The Hairpin

Allowances, The Hairpin