Selected Essays & Reviews

"A Short History of Women," by Kate Walbert
Bookforum, June 2009 Read full review...
 
"In the Land of No Right Angles," by Daphne Beal
Bookforum, Sept/Oct/Nov 2008 Read full review...
 
"The Air We Breathe," by Andrea Barrett
Bookforum, Fall 2007 Read full review...
 
"The Afterlife," by Donald Antrim
Bookforum, Summer 2006 Read full review...
 
"Frantic Transmissions To and From Los Angeles," by Kate Braverman
Bookforum, February/March 2006 Read full review...
 
"John Fante, Remembered"
Post Road, Issue 9, Winter 2004 Read full essay...
 
"The Secret Goldfish," by David Means
The Believer, Issue 17, September 2004 Read full review...
 
"The Only Truth That Mattered"
Killing the Buddha, July 29, 2004 Read full essay...
 
"The Laments," by George Hagen
People
, July 5, 2004
 
"Sweet Land Stories," by E. L. Doctorow
People
, May 31, 2004
 
"The Stranger at the Palazzo D'Oro," by Paul Theroux
People
, February 9, 2004