Essays & Reviews

Essays

• “Why is American book publishing so white?” The Guardian (Books blog), December 2, 2014.

• “Publishing: Is There Anything Left to Save?” Women’s Review of Books (Women = Books blog), January 2014.

• “The Best of the Best Books Lists.” The Huffington Post (The Blog), December 31, 2013.

• “Women's History Month Spotlight: Advice From the 19th Century, on Loneliness and Doubt, Horses, Vacuum Cleaners and the Nature of Time.” The Huffington Post (The Blog), May 28, 2013.

• “The Old Mystique, and The New.” The Huffington Post (The Blog), April 28, 2013.

• “Inklings: Pesky Distinctions.” Shelf Awareness: Daily Enlightenment for readers, Issue 81, Friday, Mar 30, 2012.

• “To the Question of Fantine (and Anne Hathaway).” The Huffington Post (The Blog), March 8, 2013.

• “Townies: The Future, in a Past Life.” The New York Times (Opinionator blog), June 28, 2012.

• “The Haunted Room” (PDF). Women’s Review of Books, 26, no. 1 (January/February 2009).

Book Reviews

• “Heart to Heart” (PDF) Women’s Review of Books, 36, no 1 (January / February 2019): 14-15. Review of Sarah Smarsh’s Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

• “Super-Sight” (PDF) Women’s Review of Books, 35, no 4 (July / August 2018): 19-20. Review of Julia Van Haaften’s Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography

• “The Real Camille” (PDF). Women's Review of Books, 31, no. 1 (January / February 2014): 24-25. Review of Julie Kavanagh's The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis.

• “A Law Named After a Woman” (PDF). Women's Review of Books, 28, no. 3 (May / June 2011): 9-10. Review of Caren Irr's Pink Pirates: Contemporary Women Writers and Copyright.

• “Scribbling Women.” Women's Review of Books, 26, no. 4 (July / August 2009): 5-7. Review of Elaine Showalter's A Jury Of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx

• Quick Takes…

• Literary Fiction Staff Picks. Penguin Blog.