An essay on the music of ‘79 w/ playlist–Bad Brains meets Pete Seeger–on the wonderful Largehearted Boy site.

Click here for an essay I wrote on the Powell’s Blog about setting my novel in the fraught and endlessly fascinating moment of 1979.

Take a look at my review of Hannah Pittard’s first novel in the 1/28/11  New York Times Book Review

Here’s my review of Jane Mendelsohn’s compelling novel, American Music, in the New York Times Book Review.

My reviewof Ron Carlson’s The Signal in the New York Times Book Review.

I review Alyse Myers’s memoir, Who Do You Think You Are? in the New York Times Book Review.

Here’s my review of Esther Freud’s charming Love Falls in the New York Times Book Review.

My review of Ursula Hegi’s The Worst Thing I’ve Done in the New York Times Book Review.

Click here to read my review of Mary Morris’s The River Queen in the New York Times Book Review.

Here’s an essay about my father’s obsession with Christmas that appeared in the Lives section of the New York Times Magazine.

My interview with the always charming Chang-Rae Lee, author of the new novel, The Surrendered, in The Rumpus:

A profile of the lovely and amazing Nina Simone, featured in Salon.

Take a peek at the anthology edited by Elissa Schappell and Jenny Offill, featuring pieces by Dorothy Allison, Vivian Gornick, Katie Roiphe, and Emily Chenoweth, as well as my essay, “The Kindness of Strangers.”

The anthology edited by Ellen Sussman, which features writers including Erica Jong, Susan Straight, Ann Hood and Mary Roach, and my own contribution, “Dinner.”

An anthology featuring writers Tova Mirvis, Adam Langer,Peter Orner and Steve Almond, as well as my essay, “The Guinea Pig,” which was excerpted in The New York Magazine.