The Awl
Bitch Magazine
- “Past Imperfect: The Feminine Mystique and the Persistence of Nostalgia,” Winter 2010
- “Joy Schtick: Women and Optimism, By the Books,” Spring 2010 (print only)
Bookforum
- Review of Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever by Justin Taylor, February/March 2010
- Review of Normal People Don’t Live Like This by Dylan Landis, December/January 2010
- Review of Not Becoming My Mother by Ruth Reichl, June/July/August 2009
Bookslut
Some favorites:
- “This Is What a Burned-Out Feminist Looks Like: A Sign-Off,” July 2010
- “The Elizabeth Gilbert Experience,” January 2010
- “Boot Camp for Girls,” October 2008
- “A Hungry Heart,” April 2008
- “We Don’t Need Another Anthology,” January 2007
- “Reading While Traveling,” April 2006
The Faster Times
Some favorites:
- “Requiem for a Bodega,” May 14, 2010
- “Taking Pictures of Things that are Almost Gone,” January 21, 2010
- “Goodbye to ‘Goodbye to All That,’” November 10, 2009
- “OMG: The Last Polaroid Film is at Urban Outfitters,” August 27, 2009
- “‘He Was My Childhood’: Michael Jackson Dies, Nostalgia Thrives,” July 3, 2009
The Forward
- “Unexpectedly Eighty: Judith Viorst’s Poetry of Aging,” December 28, 2010
- “Time to Get Out of Your Apartment,” November 26, 2010
- “Kate Bernheimer: Champion of the Fairy Tale,” October 26, 1010
- Review of The November Criminals by Sam Munson, May 7, 2010
- Review of My Father’s Bonus March by Adam Langer, November 13, 2009
- Review of What I Thought I Knew by Alice Eve Cohen, July 17, 2009
- Review of Invisible Sisters by Jessica Handler, April 24, 2009
- Review of Ambivalence by Jonathan Garfinkel, August 1, 2008
The L Magazine
- On Jim Carroll’s Disappointing First and Last Novel, January 5, 2011
- Review of Stitches by David Small, November 11, 2009
- Review of Dreaming in French by Megan McAndrew, October 28, 2009
- Review of A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore, October 14, 2009
- Review of Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry by Leanne Shapton, March 4, 2009
- Review of Ask for a Convertible by Danit Brown, July 30, 2008
- Review of The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso, June 18, 2008
The Los Angeles Times
- Review of How Did You Get This Number by Sloane Crosley, June 13, 2010
- Review of Something Red by Jennifer Gilmore, March 28, 2010
- Review of Memoir: A History by Ben Yagoda, November 22, 2009
- Review of In This Way I Was Saved by Brian DeLeeuw, August 2, 2009
- Review of The Great Perhaps by Joe Meno, May 31, 2009
The Millions
- “The Posthumous Jim Carroll: What Do We Owe a Dead Writer?” January 21, 2011
- “Eating Your Feelings: Aimee Bender’s The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake,” June 14, 2010
Poets & Writers
- “First: Mary Johnson’s An Unquenchable Thirst,” September/October 2011 (print only)
- “The Strangeness Quotient: A Profile of Karen Russell,” May/June 2011 (print only)
- “Seek and You Shall Sign: How Agents Find Potential Clients, and What Writers Can Do to Seal the Deal,” July/August 2010 (print only)
- First: Karl Marlantes’s Matterhorn, May/ June 2010
- First: Victor Lodato’s Mathilda Savitch, September/October 2009 (print only)
Salon
- “The Beauty of the Geek”: An interview with Ben Nugent, author of American Nerd, May 20, 2008
- “The Abortion Doctor”: An interview with Susan Wicklund, author of This Common Secret, January 22, 2008
- “Conversations: Sheryl Crow,” January 30, 2008
The Second Pass
The Rumpus
- “Erika Lopez Builds Her Own Utopia,” October 11, 2010
- “Who’s the Narcissist? Emily Gould May Be the Queen of Oversharing, But You’re the One Reading this Review of Her Book,” May 11, 2010
- “A History of Violence”: Review of After the Fire a Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld, August 27, 2009
The San Francisco Chronicle
- Review of Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music by Marisa Meltzer, March 24, 2010
- Review of Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture by Kaya Oakes, June 7, 2009
- Review of The Believers by Zoe Heller, March 29, 2009
Tablet Magazine
- “Discomfort Food,” October 18, 2011
- “Idle Worship,” August 15, 2011
- “Vision and Revision: A 1967 biopic offered a look at feminist icon Shulamith Firestone before she was famous. In a 1997 remake, things are more complicated,” January 11, 2011
- “Crash Course: After a lifetime of avoiding Philip Roth’s books, a reader decides to see what all the fuss is about,” October 12, 2010
- “Converted: How Sarah Silverman Finally Won Me Over,” April 29, 2010
- “Hunger Pangs: Vegetarianism Grew too Limiting for One Writer, But Kashrut, At Least as She Interprets it, Never Did,” October 20, 2009
- “Teen Shpilkes: Young-Adult Novelist Norma Klein Taught Me about Sex and Feminism, In a Very Jewish World,” August 28, 2009
- “Mother May I? Reading A Treasure for My Daughter, a 1950 Guide to Jewish Womanhood,” June 11, 2009
- “Divine Intervention: Can Religious Women Have Their Cake, and Eat it Too?” January 15, 2009
- Life’s a Beach: In a Girl-Centric Graphic Novel, Growing Up is Hard to Do,” November 5, 2008
- “The Girls’ Guide to Hot Rabbis and Tattooed Chefs” (reprinted in 614), November 2007
Time Out New York
- Review of The False Friend by Myla Goldberg, October 7, 2010
- Review of Dogfight, A Love Story by Matthew Burgess, September 16, 2010
- Review of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender, June 3, 2010
- Review of Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life by Steve Almond, April 22, 2010
- Review of Happy Now? by Katherine Shonk, April 8, 2010
- Review of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman, February 18, 2010
- Review of The Melting Season by Jami Attenberg, January 21, 2010
- Review of The Ticking is the Bomb by Nick Flynn, January 14, 2010
- Review of Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen by Marilyn Chin, October 22, 2009
- Review of A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit, September 24, 2009
- Review of Not That Kind of Girl by Carlene Bauer, August 6, 2009
- Review of The Big Rewind by Nathan Rabin, July 23, 2009
- “A Short History of Women: Kate Walbert looks at suffragists, activists and modern-day moms in her new multigenerational saga,” June 18, 2009
- Review of Where Did You Sleep Last Night? by Danzy Senna, May 21, 2009
- “Sweet and Vicious: Former ranter Maggie Estep writes an eccentric, murder-tinged romance,” May 7, 2009
- Review of Wetlands by Charlotte Roche, March 26, 2009
- “Gimme Shelter: Janice Erlbaum recalls her attempt to save a homeless addict,” February 13, 2008
The Village Voice