SELECTED ESSAYS
Travesty Show: An Illustrated Correspondence
with Nicholas Muellner in Jewish Currents
This Is Not a #YomHaShoah Instagram Post
Jewish Currents
On Not Eating the Marshmallow
The Kenyon Review
At the Shiva
Gulf Coast
The cardboard boxes decorated to resemble tree stumps were something to grieve for in themselves.
Home of the Harlequin Ladybird
Tin House
Trump Dads
The Rumpus
And our Clinton moms go to sleep beside them, as they have for so, so many years.
Crossing Brooklyn Bridge
The Nashville Review
Not Weird About Brooklyn
The Paris Review Daily
Recurring Dog & Rare Thing
(9 Years, 13 Dreams)
The Collagist
The New Oxford American Tells a Story
Okey-Panky
Are You My Mother?: An Unfaithful Imitation
The Seneca Review
You could say the pull toward narrative is so strong, it destroys truth.
Fallacy in Puffy Paint, c. 1992
Electric Literature
There was a time when I wandered the earth with a puffy-paint penis on my shoulder.
CRITICISM & OPINION
Entering the DreamSpace
Jewish Currents
What kind of resistance is rest?
Against Copyediting
Literary Hub
Against Impossibility
Jewish Currents
Who benefits when we decide—or accept—that the splinters of history are “beyond repair”?
The Best Sex I Ever Had Was (Also) a Narrative Structure
Literary Hub
On expectation, eagerness, and enjoyment.
What Your Draft Says About You
Literary Hub
Practice Imagining Change
A Workshop Manifesto
Poets & Writers / Literary Hub
Not Another Holocaust Book
Jewish Currents
Could it be that the only way to write about the Shoah today is by hardly writing about it at all?
A Non-Mother's Hunger for the Writing of Motherhood
Los Angeles Review of Books
How do these mother-writers mother my writerhood?
Against Clichés Against Clichés: A Manifesto
The Millions
WHEREAS: it is a cliché of the creative writing workshop to discourage a writer’s use of cliché...
When Plagiarism Is a Plea for Help
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Don't Eat This Marshmallow
Los Angeles Review of Books
Instability & the Essay
Essay Daily
The essay is an action, as unstable and open to interpretation as any struggle between selves.
Won't You Be My Wireless Neighbor?
The New York Times
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