Selected Writing
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The New York Times
Get the Baby to the Doctor: In a strange city a new mother’s routine errand becomes everything. An essay about the real-life episode that gave rise to the idea for The Possibilities
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Slate
In Defense of the Anxious Mother. We are a society that venerates motherhood while denigrating mothers, and so we hold impossible standards of care while dismissing the painful grind of actually caring.
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LitHub
On Elegantly Weaving Science into Fiction. “I’d forgotten the fundamental law of fiction: don’t mess with the suspension of disbelief.”
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Los Angeles Review of Books
Parenting Is Always a Ghost Story: A conversation with Claire Jarvis about the psychoanalytic roots of The Possbilities.
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Kveller
What if Being Anxious Jewish Mothers is our Superpower? A conversation with Elissa Strauss about the complicated connection between guilt and worry.
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The Racket
Conversation with Abigail Stewart about the psychological sediment that gets stirred up by motherhood and how to do it justice in narrative
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Lilith
On the metamorphosis that is motherhood. A conversation with Yona Zeldis McDonough
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Chicago Review of Books
Motherhood and the Multiverse. A conversation with Victoria Livingsone.
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The Wall Street Journal
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The Boston Globe
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Commentary
When Skeptics Die (Fiction)
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Commentary
Reading with. . . (Shelf Awareness)
On genre and the books that saved my life (Paul Semel)
A Girl with an Expiration Date: On Heather Harpam's Happiness (The Millions)
18 Novels that Spoke Truth to Prejudice (BuzzFeed)
A Novelist's Call to Optimism (Huffington Post)
On Loving Science Fiction (Post Road Magazine)
Nakadike Shiksa (Jewcy)
Rednecks For Obama (The Atlantic online)