“Assemblage,” Creative Nonfiction, Issue 66 (Spring 2018), print only.

“A Story We Tell Ourselves and Others,” a review essay, Required Reading, Creative Nonfiction, Issue 59 (May 2016)

“Many Ways of Seeing, Many Ways of Saying,” a review essay, Fourth Genre, 17.1 (April 2015), print only

“The Heart as a Torn Muscle,” Brevity, Issue 48 (January 2015)

“Behind the Caves” at The Rumpus (16 September 2014)

“Bye-Bye Brain,” Sweet: A Literary Confection, Issue 5.3.  Graphic nonfiction.

“The Split,” Passages North, Volume 31.1 (Winter/Spring 2009/2010)

“War Weary from a Dangerous Liaison,” Modern Love, Sunday Styles, The New York Times (16 November 2008)

 

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Selected craft essays:

“The Turning Point of All Things,” Creative Nonfiction, Issue 74 (Winter 2021); republished as “How to Render Epiphanies in Nonfiction Without Getting Didactic” in LitHub (4 January 2021)

“The Sitting,” Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, Issue 6.1 (September 2019)

“In Defense of Themelessness,” Brevity, Issue 61 (May 2019)

“(Re)using Found Forms: The Hermit Crab Essay,” True — a blog run by Proximity Quarterly (January 2018)

“On Keeping a (Writing) Notebook (or Three),” Brevity, Issue 51 (January 2016)

 

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Selected reviews:

Reviews for The A.V. Club (of Against Memoir, Flâneuse, LaRose, Fates and Furies, The Argonauts, and more) can be found here (March 2015 – present)

“A Review of David Carlin and Nicole Walker’s The After-Normal,” Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog (17 July 2020)

“What to Read When You’re Haunted,” The Rumpus (4 October 2019)

“A Review of Jenny Boully’s Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life,” Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog (8 October 2018)

“Before We’re Writers, We’re Readers,” Required Reading, Creative Nonfiction (Summer 2016)

“A Story We Tell Ourselves and Others,” a review essay, Required Reading, Creative Nonfiction (Spring 2016)

“How to Fix Your Life: An Autumn Reading List: Woolfian Resolutions for ‘October, the dawn of the year,’” a review essay at Literary Hub (6 October 2015)

“Accidental Notes on the Syllabus,” a graphic review of Lynda Barry’s Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor, Los Angeles Review of Books (21 February 2015)

“Three Books to Get Over an Affair,” The Millions (27 August 2014)

Review of Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin in The Georgia Review (Spring 2014)

Review of Leaving Resurrection: Chronicles of a Whale Scientist, As It Ought to Be (13 January 2014)