SELECTED WRITING
BOOK REVIEWS
Oprah Daily: "Chloé Cooper Jones’s Debut Memoir, Easy Beauty, Holds Up A Mirror to the Able-Bodied World" (URL / PDF)Oprah Daily: "Jessamine Chan’s Explosive The School for Good Mothers Probes a Parent’s Worst Nightmare" (URL / PDF)
Oprah Daily: "Sarah Blake’s Clean Air Is a Cli-Fi Novel for Our Times" (URL / PDF)
Vulture: "A Murder Mystery That Refuses to Be Solved" (URL / PDF)
BuzzFeed News: "Motherhood Is More Than Difficult In These New Books—It’s Horrific" (URL / PDF)
ESSAYS
The Cut: "Book Excerpt: My Son's Inheritance" (URL / PDF)LitHub: "I Hope You Don't Mind That I've Shared You: On Writing About Your Kid" (URL / PDF)
Catapult: "How Do We Survive Suicide?" — Notable Selection, Best American Essays 2022 (URL / PDF)
BuzzFeed News: "I'm Still Thinking About This Book About The Worst Earthquake In US History A Year After Reading It" (URL / PDF)
The Hairpin: "Mount Defiance at Starvation Ridge" (URL / PDF)
BuzzFeed News: "Memory Can Help Us Survive, But It Can Also Hold Us Back" (URL / PDF)
Nylon: "How Harriet the Spy Made Me Into A Writer" (URL / PDF)
Eater: "Christmas on a Slider" (URL / PDF)
BuzzFeed: "Life After Debt" (URL / PDF)
INTERVIEWS & PROFILES
Oprah Daily: "For Harriett’s Bookshop Owner Jeannine Cook, Connection Is at the Root of Everything" (URL / PDF)BuzzFeed: "Renata Adler On Fearlessness And Becoming A Late-In-Life Cultural Icon" (URL / PDF)
Pacific Standard: "The Nature Poem Bucking Stereotypes About Native Americans" (URL / PDF)
The Guardian: "This Is the End: Undertaking a Journey to Beat the Fear of Death" (URL / PDF)
BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
Bustle: "Stacked Up" Monthly Column (URL)Vulture: "The Best Memoirs of 2023" (URL / PDF)
Bustle: "22 Best Beach Reads To Bring to the Beach This Summer" (URL / PDF)
Vulture: "The Best Memoirs of 2022" (URL / PDF)
BuzzFeed News: These Audiobooks Haved Saved My Sanity During Lockdown" (URL / PDF)
LIFESTYLE & CULTURE
The Cut: "What the Heck Happened to My Body During Reiki?" (URL / PDF)The Atlantic: "Why Do Humans Talk to Animals if They Can't Understand?" (URL / PDF)
Esquire: "There Are More Plus-Size Men Than Ever. So Why Are They Still Getting the Dregs of Fashion?" (URL / PDF)
BuzzFeed News: "Fighting For Hip-Hop In The Whitest City In America" (URL / PDF)
Atlas Obscura: "The 200-Year Old Book That Sent the East Coast Into a Sex Panic" (URL / PDF)
MORE
FADER: "Foot Soldiers of the New Food Movements" (URL / PDF)Racked: "What Resale Apps Have Learned From Yard Sales" (URL / PDF)
Mel Magazine: "The Death Industry Goes Digital" (URL / PDF)
The Hairpin: "Allowances" (URL / PDF)
Broadly: "Not Sitting Quietly Anymore: How Librarians Are Fighting Trump" (URL /PDF)
The Hairpin: "Inside McMansion Hell"(URL / PDF)
BuzzFeed News: "I Can't Live Without Fear But I Can Learn to Be OK With It" (URL / PDF)
BuzzFeed News: "I Found My Voice As a Writer in Justin Timberlake Fan Fiction" (URL / PDF)
Racked: "I Learned the Sound of Glamour From My Mother" (URL / PDF)
Catapult: "Learning to Cook After Relearning to Eat" (URL / PDF)