On the work & addictive appeal of Elena Ferrante, Virginia Quarterly Review
On the interplay between Leonard Cohen’s 1960s novels and his music, Virginia Quarterly Review
A defense of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle and the category of autofiction, Virginia Quarterly Review
On the blurry health/dysfunction line when it comes to eating, Virginia Quarterly Review
note: "Crave" was listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2016, ed. by Jonathan Franzen
On The Atlantic’s shallow contrarianism and coverage of women’s issues, Los Angeles Review of Books
On having a provocative book cover, The Millions
On the supposed golden age of novel writing, Tin House
On “reality hunger,” appropriation, and the fiction/fact blur in contemporary literature, Gently Read Literature
On being desperate (and unable) to breastfeed, Michigan Quarterly Review
Pieces on Craft
On Jean Stafford, Emerging Writers Network
On Representing the Unspoken Interior Life in Fiction, AWP Chronicle (available only to subscribers)
On loving to kill my prose darlings, The New York Times
On How to Fake a 3rd-Person P.O.V., The Center for Fiction
On a Sentence by John Updike, Tin House blog
Reviews
On two New Yorker-related books, The New York Times Book Review
On Forty-One False Starts by Janet Malcolm, The Millions
On My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead, Los Angeles Review of Books
On Motherest by Kristen Iskandrian, The New York Times Book Review