Nonfiction

Here are some of the nonfiction essays and articles I’ve published.

NONFICTION ESSAYS IN ANTHOLOGIES

  • “The Lion, The Pig, The Wolf and Other Thoughts About New York” in Goodbye To All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, October, 2013
  • “Accidents,” in Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood and Abortion, Macadam Cage, 2007
  • “The Light, The Sword, the Nintendo DS,” (co-written with my husband and accomplice in parenting, Robert Anthony Siegel) in How to Spell Chanukah, Algonquin, 2007.
  • “Normal People” in With Love and Squalor, Broadway Books, 2001

NONFICTION ARTICLES

“If You Have These Traits, You Might Be a Writer,” in Lithub, October, 2018

“What My Family Learned from a Year of Living With Creepy Houseguests” in Real Simple, July 2015

You can buy How to Spell Chanukah here.

You can buy With Love and Squalor: 14 Writers Respond to the Work of J.D. Salinger here.

Here’s a video of my talk at Google about Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood and Abortion.