The Animal Stories We Tell
The Christmas day edition of the New York Times Book Review featured an essay of mine, covering a number of recent books about animals. That essay can be read here. I also spoke about the essay with...
View ArticleThe Brooklyn Institute
I’ve got two bits of new writing floating around right now, in the current issues of the London Review of Books and New York Magazine, so this seemed a good time to update this site. I’ve also added my...
View ArticlePublisher’s Weekly
The first pre-publication review of What Happened to Sophie Wilder is out, and it can be found here. It says some nice things about the book, including calling it “a thoughtful journey about the place...
View ArticleWHTSW is coming soon
It’s now just about a month until the release of my novel, What Happened to Sophie Wilder. Finished copies just arrived in the mail from Tin House Books, and they look beautiful. Also, the book was...
View ArticleAn interview with the author
I did a brief Q and A with my publisher, Tin House Books, about my new novel, What Happened to Sophie Wilder, which is coming out in a few weeks. Here it is. (For information on how to buy the book, go...
View ArticleBorn From Above
The critic D.G. Myers has written a lengthy consideration of What Happened to Sophie Wilder for the July issue of Commentary. The essay is just about everything a writer could hope for in terms of a...
View ArticleSome thoughts for Jennifer Weiner about the Times Book Review
I had a twitter conversation a couple of days ago with Jennifer Weiner, who spends a lot time banging her drum about the lack of coverage of commercial fiction in the New York Times Book Review. Fairly...
View ArticleWhat if we took God out of the God debate?
I was off twitter for a while, and this week I got back on it, and after a few frustrating days where I considered giving it up for good, I had one of those twitter days yesterday where everything came...
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