“The Emotional Power of Verbs,” which appeared in the Draft column last December, was noted in an online class taught by Susan Orlean in her Skillshare class. You can read about her class here.
Posted in News | Leave a commentNarrative.ly publishes my piece on Taiwan’s Homemakers’ Union Consumer Co-op. You can read the article here.
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Posted in News | Leave a commentMy article on pets, Taiwan, the low birth rate, and the complex nature of love is up on The Atlantic website: you can read the piece here.
Posted in News | Leave a comment“Refund” is coming out January 13, 2015, but you can order it here and here and here.
Posted in News | Leave a commentRabbi Anne Perry reviews A Town of Empty Rooms; you can read her review here.
Posted in News | Leave a commentMy short story, “The Sea Turtle Hospital,” has just been published in issue 46/47 of Story Quarterly. You can find out more about the magazine here.
Posted in News | Leave a commentYou can read Kay Campbell’s review here.
Posted in News | Leave a commentA Town of Empty Rooms is now out in paperback; a new excerpt, “The Pinewood Derby,” is up on www.byliner.com. You can read the excerpt here.
Posted in News | Leave a commentI talk to Jon Winokur for his website, “Advice for Writers.” You can read the interview here.
Posted in News | Leave a commentIn this essay, I talk about the ways in which verbs can be emotional. You can read the essay, which appeared in the Draft column of the New York Times, here.
Posted in On Writing | Leave a commentAre verbs emotional? Yes, they are! You can read my essay in the New York Times here.
Posted in News | Leave a commentI have a new story, “This Cat,” on the Narrative magazine website. You can read the story here.
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