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There was magic, there was dancing, there was a reading–short & sweet.

The episode of All Sides Books I did with the local NPR affiliate is archived here.

Watch and listen here.

My longtime academic home, The Ohio State University, decided I was news. (My proudest moment here: when Josh Jay is quoted as saying, “What impressed […]

These days, one takes good news where one can find it. My first review, the day before Close-Up is due out.

Join me (RSVP here) for a launch party for Close-Up on March 15, 2022 at 7PM

I kept going back even though I was sore all the time. I iced my calves and ankles. I took baths in Epsom salts. The soreness should have dampened my spirits, but instead it made me happy. I loved being sore; being sore meant something, I thought. I thought about the pain of labor, all those years ago, and how I’d gotten through it only by reminding myself, like an increasingly hysterical mantra, that the pain wasn’t like “normal” pain, it was pain with a purpose, it was pain that was getting me something I wanted badly—there was a reward at the end of it, it would be worth it.

I danced my way through the pandemic. Here’s the film to prove it.

New essay up today at American Scholar.

Hear me read my essay “Foreign Excellent” (or you can read it yourself) on the New Ohio Review‘s site.

“The Darling” is in Ploughshares’s autumn 2020 longform issue and is also available as a standalone e-book as part of Ploughshares’ Solo Series.