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On Books
Maggie Nelson: On Freedom The Los Angeles Times The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan The Los Angeles Times Merve Emre: The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway The Los Angeles Times Kate Zambreno: To Write As If Already Dead The Los Angeles Times Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York The Los Angeles Times, February 2021 Joan Didion's Let Me Tell You What I Mean The Los Angeles Times, January 2021 Karl Ove Knausgaard's In the Land of the Cyclops The Los Angeles Times, December 2020 Celia Paul: Self-Portrait The Los Angeles Times, November 2020 Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath The Los Angeles Times, October 2020 Lynn Steger Strong's Want The Los Angeles Times, July 2020 Maggie Doherty's The Equivalents The Los Angeles Times, June 2020 Call it Love: On Queer Memoir The Los Angeles Times, April 2020 Robert Caro: Turn Every Page The Daily Beast, March 2019 Sylvia Plath's Last Desperate Letters The Daily Beast, November 2018 Dead Girls: Female Fascination with True Crime The Daily Beast, October 2018 100 Best Thrillers of All Time Signature, August 2018 Who Was Carolyn Keene? Murder & Mayhem, November 2018 Capote's Masterpiece 'In Cold Blood' Still Vivid at 50 The Daily Beast, December 2016 You're Probably Misreading The Lottery The Daily Beast, November 2015 Gertrude of Arabia The Daily Beast, September 2015 11 Female Writers Who Will Just Get You Bustle, June 2015 11 Times Joan Didion Was the Coolest Writer Bustle, June 2015 American Ghost, by Hannah Nordhaus The Barnes and Noble Review, March 2015 The First Bad Man, by Miranda July The Barnes and Noble Review, January 2015 Scandals of Classic Hollywood, by Anne-Helen Petersen The Daily Beast, November 2014 The Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, by Caitlin Doughty The Daily Beast, October 2014 Small Towns: 5 Books The Barnes and Noble Review, July 2014 I'll Be Right There, by Kyung-Sook Shin The Barnes and Noble Review, June 2014 Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 by Francine Prose The Daily Beast, April 2014 Pushkin Hills, by Sergei Dovlatov The Barnes & Noble Review, April 2014 Careless People, by Sarah Churchwell Flappers, by Judith Mackrell The Barnes & Noble Review, January 2014 Big Fat Books to Devour on Your Precious Days Off Bustle, November 2013 The Signature of All Things, by Elizabeth Gilbert The Barnes & Noble Review, November 2013 The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt Aritzia Magazine, October 2013 Levels of Life, by Julian Barnes The Barnes & Noble Review, October 2013 Enon, by Paul Harding Someone, by Alice McDermott Aritzia Magazine, August 2013 Necessary Errors, by Caleb Crain The Barnes & Noble Review, August 2013 The Infatuations, by Javier Marias Aritzia Magazine, August 2013 The Color Master, by Aimee Bender The Barnes & Noble Review, August 2013 Byzantium, by Ben Stroud A Marker to Measure Drift, by Alexander Maksik The Daily Beast, July 2013 My Education, by Susan Choi The Barnes & Noble Review, July 2013 That's Not Funny, That's Sick, by Ellin Stein The Barnes & Noble Review, July 2013 The Rest of Us, by Jessica Lott The Astronauts Wives Club, by Lily Koppel The Daily Beast, June 2013 The Bookman's Tale, by Charlie Lovell The Barnes & Noble Review, June 2013 The Other Typist, by Suzanne Rindell The Barnes & Noble Review, June 2013 You Are One of Them, by Elliott Holt The Barnes & Noble Review, June 2013 She Left me the Gun by Emma Brockes A Short Tale of Shame by Angel Igov The Daily Beast, May 2013 Janet Malcolm Will Make You Smarter DAME Magazine, April 2013 The Wisdom of Psychopaths, by Kevin Dutton The Barnes & Noble Review, November 2012 Blasphemy, by Sherman Alexie The Barnes & Noble Review, October 2012 Un(der)known Writers: Penelope Mortimer The New Inquiry, February 2012 On Booze, by F. Scott Fitzgerald The New Inquiry, November 2011 My Long Trip Home, by Mark Whitaker The Barnes & Noble Review, November 2011 The Stranger's Child, by Alan Hollinghurst The Second Pass, October 2011 The Last Werewolf, by Glen Duncan NPR, July 2011 The Central Park Five, by Sarah Burns NPR, May 2011 House of Exile, by Evelyn Juers NPR, May 2011 The Long Goodbye, by Meghan O'Rourke The Second Pass, April 2011 The Tiger's Wife, by Téa Obreht NPR, March 2011 Our Novels, Ourselves This Recording, March 2011 The Blindness of the Heart, by Julia Franck The Barnes & Noble Review, October 2010 Irrepressible, by Leslie Brody Bookforum's Daily Review, September 2010 Fury, by Koren Zalickas The Barnes & Noble Review, September 2010 8 Literary Love Affairs The Daily Beast, August 2010 The Genius and the Goddess, by Jeffrey Meyers The Rumpus, August 2010 Finny, by Justin Kramon Time Out New York, July 2010 Empty Mile, by Matthew Stokoe Time Out New York, July 2010 Molly Fox's Birthday, by Deirdre Madden The Second Pass, June 2010 Cakewalk, by Kate Moses The Millions, May 2010 And the Heart Says Whatever, by Emily Gould Time Out New York, April 2010 Alone With You, by Marissa Silver Time Out New York, April 2010 The Gin Closet, by Leslie Jamison Time Out New York, March 2010 Still Life, by Melissa Milgrom The Second Pass, March 2010 I Don't Care About Your Band by Julie Klausner Bookslut, March 2010 Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever, by Justin Taylor Time Out New York, February 2010 The Unnamed, by Joshua Ferris Time Out New York, January 2010 Too Much Happiness, by Alice Munro Time Out New York, November 2009 Marbles, by Jim Guida The Second Pass, October 2009 Nocturnes, by Kazuo Ishiguro Time Out New York, October 2009 Prospect Park West, by Amy Sohn Time Out New York, September 2009 Flannery, by Brad Gooch Bookslut, May 2009 Frankly, My Dear by Molly Haskell Bookslut, April 2009 Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower Identity Theory, August 2009 |
Essays
Great Expectations: On Becoming a Parent The Barnes and Noble Review, September 2017 Virginia Woolf Teaches How to Fight Fascism The Daily Beast, March 2017 Shirley Jackson, Breadwinner The Billfold, September 2016 Nothing Doing: On the Art of Procrastination The Barnes and Noble Review, May 2016 The Uncanny Suite: On Hotels The Barnes and Noble Review, November 2015 The Zebra The Yearbook Office, March 2015 Eloping in New York The Aesthete, July 2013 Black Furniture: The Devil's Advocate This Recording, November 2011 On I Love Dick by Chris Kraus The Second Pass, March 2011 Brothers and Sisters: Hocus Pocus This Recording, October 2010 Bad Fish: Jaws This Recording, August 2010 How to Make Les Miz into the Next Twilight The Awl, August 2010 Interviews Amanda Kloots: Live Your Life The Los Angeles Times Interview with Kathryn Scanlan The Los Angeles Times, April 2020 Fit as an Octogenarian: Patricia Marx Celadon Books Wes Craven's Last Killer: Luke Baines The Lineup, July 2016 Amy Steel: The Girl That Got Away from Jason The Lineup, May 2016 Jessa Crispin on The Dead Ladies Project Early Bird Books, October 2015 Mary Karr's Advice to Young Writers Feed Your Need to Read, September 2015 Ian Bostridge: Warming to Schubert's Winter Song The Daily Beast, March 2015 Zoe Buckman: Every Curve Matters The Aesthete, November 2014 Matt Soller Zeitz on Wes Anderson Aritzia Magazine, October 2013 Renata Adler The Aesthete, May 2013 Garance Dore Gotham Magazine, September 2012 Sheila Heti The Awl, June 2012 Matthew Modine Gotham Magazine, June 2012 Carrie Preston Gotham Magazine, June 201 Michael Stuhlbarg Gotham Magazine, May 2012 Zosia Mamet Gotham Magazine, May 2012 Charlotte Gainsbourg: Multi-trick Pony Planet Magazine, February 2010 AIR: Perfect Marriage Planet Magazine, September 2009 Leanne Shapton Bookslut, April 2009 Sarah Manguso Bookslut, September 2009 David Chang: Full Contact Cooking The 99%, September 2009 Alexandra Wilkis Wilson: Gilt Groupe The 99%, January 2010 On Sylvia Plath Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath The Los Angeles Times Sylvia Plath's Last Desperate Letters The Daily Beast, November 2018 Touching Sylvia Plath's Hair The Daily Beast, February 2013 Why Sylvia Plath Remains Such an Icon DAME Magazine, February 2013 The American Poet's Corner Inducts Sylvia Plath The New Yorker's Book Bench, November 2010 Books & Babies & Beef Stews: The Culinary Passion of Sylvia Plath Plath Profiles, October 2010 Sylvia Plath: Red and Blue This Recording, May 2010 Another Side of Sylvia The Second Pass, September 2009 Gastronomy Ode to the Most Decadent Martini in Brooklyn Beyond Words, October 2015 The Secret Lives of Supper Clubs The Aesthete, June 2013 The Chef's Table Experience The Aesthete, September 2012 8 Food Writers on Thanksgiving The Daily Beast, November 2010 Writing Food, Writing Life The Millions, May 2010 Film and Television Reviews The Staircase The Lineup, August 2016 Hell Hath No Fury: Best Revenge Horror The Lineup, May 2016 10 Bizarre but Great Horror Movies The Lineup, April 2016 The Witch The Lineup, February 2016 Camille Claudel 1915 Aritzia Magazine, October 2013 Blood Brother Aritzia Magazine, October 2013 Jayne Mansfield's Car Aritzia Magazine, August 2013 Lovelace Aritzia Magazine, August 2013 Blue Jasmine Aritzia Magazine, August 2013 The Hunt Aritzia Magazine, July 2013 Berberian Sound Studio Aritzia Magazine, June 2013 Saving the Comedy from Itself (Bored to Death) This Recording, October 2009 Two Lovers More Intelligent Life Who Watches the Watchmen? More Intelligent Life Theater Reviews February House Gotham Magazine, May 2012 Ritter, Dene, Voss More Intelligent Life, October 2010 Music Reviews Robyn: Body Talk Pt. 1 Planet Magazine, July 2010 |