Short Fiction
"Scarlett"
The Literary Review, Fall 2014 "May, Monrovia"
Guernica Daily, October 9, 2014 |
Essays & Ideas
"Amy Hempel's Powerful Brevity"
The New Republic, May 7, 2019 "It seemed right that I try to transform myself by writing it."
a conversation with Ross Simonini The Believer Logger, January 8, 2018 "The Slow Burn: Essays on Elena Ferrante"
with Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, and Jill Richards Post45, Summer 2015 |
"If you love love, you have to love doomed love too"
The Guardian, February 14, 2014 "The Tournament of Literary Friends"
The Paris Review Daily, July 29, 2013 "Literature's Fight Club"
Wall Street Journal, July 19, 2013 "Provincetown" on Stellwagen Bank, Massachusetts Bay
The Common, July 17, 2013 "Modern Athena" on Drosopigi, Greece
The Common, December 19, 2012 |
Interviews & Press
Writerly States (Video)
January 29, 2016 |
Fiction Writers Review
August 21, 2014 |
The Gaggle
September 9, 2013 |
Bookmagnet
July 26, 2013 |
Bustle
July 23, 2013 |
Selected Articles & Reviews
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill
Philadelphia Inquirer, November 22, 2015 The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
Philadelphia Inquirer, September 20, 2015 On Josefina Vicens's The Empty Book
Tin House, Fall 2015 The State We're In by Ann Beattie
Philadelphia Inquirer, August 23, 2015 My Struggle, Book 4 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Philadelphia Inquirer, June 14, 2015 The Discreet Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa
Philadelphia Inquirer, April 5, 2015 "10 Unhappy Families in Literature"
Waterstones Blog, February 6, 2014 "Lorrie Moore's 'Community Life'"
Bookanista, December 2013 "Master Class" on Lynne Sharon Schwartz and Two-Part Inventions
The Paris Review Daily, April 4, 2013 Blueprints for Building Better Girls by Elissa Schappell and I Married You for Happiness by Lily Tuck
Philadelphia City Paper, October 20, 2011 "New Tree-Free Submission Services"
Poets & Writers, Jan/Feb 2011 |
"Return Trip: A Profile of Lorrie Moore"
Poets & Writers, Sept/Oct 2009 Trading Dreams at Midnight by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
The Pennsylvania Gazette, September/October 2008 "Saving the Short Story: One Story from One to One Hundred"
Poets & Writers, May/June 2008 |