Shorter Works

Selected Essays, Articles, & Stories:

• “Ellen,” Cagibi
• “Seizures,” Crazyhorse
• “The Marrying Kind,” Creative Nonfiction
• “Still Running,” The Sun– featured in Best American Sports Writing – 2018, Jeff Pearlman, ed.
• “Joe,” In: What I didn’t Know: True Stories of Becoming a Teacher. Reprinted in LitHub
• “The Name Story,” The Saturday Evening Post
• “The Incident in My Park,” Fourth Genre
• “Why Are People Trying To Take My Disabled Daughter’s Job Away?”
• “Like at First Sight,” (with Heather Sellers), O – the Oprah Magazine
• “Rachel Occupies Wall Street,” Narrative Magazine
• “Desperately Seeking Subtext,” Creative Nonfiction
• “Laura Dead Thirty-Nine Years,” Under the Sun
• “A Fillmore East ‘Candy Chick’ Looks Back,” EastVillage.thelocal.nytimes.com
• “Street Sense,” City Paper
• “Knocked Out,” (an excerpt) Keeping the Wolves at Bay, Autumn House Press
• “After Which Everything Changed,” Confrontation
• “In the Hammam,” Swink Magazine
• “Skin.” Seneca Review
• “A Love Story.” Bombay Gin
• “On Throwing Out My Journals.” Superstition Review
• “A Bear in Tel Aviv.” Brevity
• “Independent Means.” The New York Times Magazine
• “Victim of Circumstance.” The New York Times Magazine, “Lives.”
• “Funny Feet.” Maggid: A Journal of Jewish Literature
• “The Fourth Visit.” Maggid: A Journal of Jewish Literature
• “Fear and Living in Dangerous Places.” Focus
• “Rachel at Work: Enclosed, A Mother’s Report.”” Creative Nonfiction
• “The Enormous Phone Call,” Fourth Genre
• “Rachel at Seventeen.” More
• “Consoling Lessons.” Self
• “Fear of Flying.” Real Simple
• “The Anatomy of Worry,” Prairie Schooner
• “On Forgiveness.” River Teeth
• “My Real Father.” Fathers, Claudia O’Keefe, ed., Pocket Books
• “Rachel Flies Alone.” The Massachusetts Review
• “The Black Dog.” Prairie Schooner
• “Healing Rituals for Miscarriage.” Self
• “The Story of Her Success.” Fiction
• “On Regret.” The Sun
• “How and Why.” Creative Nonfiction
• “The Silent Struggle.” Self
• “Babysitting.” In: Jewish Girls: Growing up in America. Marlene Adler Marks, ed., Plume/Penguin.
• “Taking Care.” Creative Nonfiction
• “Making Rachel Big.”
• “Hers,” The New York Times Magazine
• “Another Writer’s Life.” Poets and Writers
• “Like Fire.” Confrontation
• “My Sister’s Murder.” Glamour
• “Taking Rachel Swimming.” Ms.
• “About Loving Rachel.” Scholastic Voice
• “Devotion.” Mademoiselle
• “How I Got Married.” Prairie Schooner