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Short Works--In Print and On LineShort Stories“Conservation,” Massachusetts Review, summer 2006; reprinted in Jennifer Rosner (ed.), The Messy Self (Paradigm Press, 2006) “A Wedding Story,” narrativemagazine.com, fall 2005 “The Pretty Girl,”a novella, Gingko Tree Review, Fall 2004 “Lady of the Wild Beasts,” Ploughshares, Fall 2004 “The Revived Art of the Toy Theatre,” Agni, Fall 2003 “Poor Millie,” The Green Mountain Review, Winter 1999-2000 “The Ghost of Bridgetown,” Ploughshares, Summer 1998 "Winter Light," Passages North, Fall 1994 "Maria Elena," The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, May 1, 1994; reprinted with essay in Peter Turchi and Andrea Barrett (eds.), The Story Behind the Story: Contemporary Writers and How They Work (NY: Norton, 2003) "First Memory," Epoch, Winter 1995 "The Second World," Agni, Winter 1994 "The Spruce Tree," New Letters, Fall 1991 "The Year of Our Father," Prairie Schooner, Fall 1991 "The Language of Strangers," The Cream City Review, Winter 1989 "At Night, On the Island, In the Dark," The Madison Review, Fall 1988 "Grandfather's Business," Sundog: The Southeast Review, Fall 1987 "The Incorrect Hour," The North American Review, Summer 1986.Reprinted in The New Generation (New York: Doubleday, 1987) and Waseda Bungaku(Japan, 1989) "The Summer of the Dead Frogs," Esquire Summer Fiction Issue, 1985. Reprinted in SWITCH Magazine, (Japan, 1986) and The Esquire Fiction Reader, Vol II (MA: Wampeter Press, 1986) Essays and ArticlesON FOOD AND TRAVEL: “Confessions from a Dinner Party,” in Living Without, Spring 2006 “Lobstering with Linda,” Food and Wine, August 2005 “Specialty of the House,” Yankee, November 2003 “Dining Down East: Street Smarts,” Down East, January 2002 “Dining Down East: Ribollita, Portland,” Down East, Nov 2003 “The Harraseeket Inn, Freeport,” Down East, May 2002 “Fresh-Picked Flavor,” New England Travel & Life, Fall/ “Nature: A Passion for Berries,” New England Travel & Life, Spring/ “Dining Down East: Hugos,” Down East, Mar 2001 “On the Trail of Vermont Shepherd,” Yankee, October 2001 “Down East Delicacies,” New England Travel & Life, Fall 2000 “Excursions: Maine Picnic,” Food and Wine, November 2000 “Legacy: Soul Survivor,” Food and Wine, August 2000 “This New England: Where It Snowed in July,” Yankee, July 1998 “The Waters Run Even in Winter,” New York Times (Travel Section), 2/ "Hiking in the Emmental,” New York Times (Travel Section), 7/ “Traveling with Adult Siblings," New York Times (Travel Section), 11/ ON READING AND WRITING: "And Then Something Happened," The Writer's Chronicle, forthcoming “Writing as Parlor Game,” in Bret Anthony Johnston (ed.), Playing with Fire and Other Writing Exercises (NY: Random House, 2007) “Wedding Cake Exercise” in Sherry Ellis (ed.), Write Now (NY: Penguin/ “Stand Back,” The Writer’s Chronicle, May/ “On Bernard Malamud,” in Mark Windegardner (ed.)3X33: An Anthology of Short Fiction (Boston: Heinle, 2004) “What Writers Read Their Kids,” Previewport.com, fall 2002 “Cheer Up—Why Don’t You?” The Writer’s Chronicle, Oct 2002 “Fiction Exercises,” Previewport.com, October 2001 “Little Women Writers,” Previewport.com, October 2000 “Cry, Cry, Cry: Handling Emotion in Fiction,” The Writer’s Chronicle, December 2000 “The Trigger—What Gives Rise to a Story,” Creating Fiction: a complete guide from great writers and teachers of AWP (Ohio: Story Press, 1999) Interview with Monica Wood, published with paperback edition of Monica Wood, Secret Languages (NY: Bantam, 2002) “Recollection,” Tom Grimes (ed.), The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (NY: Hyperion, 1999) "In Bed With a Book,” The Most Wonderful Books: Writers on the Pleasures of Reading, edited by Michael Dorris and Emilie Buchwald (Minn: Milkweed 1997) “Getting In and Getting Out: First Words on First (and Last) Words,” The Writer’s Chronicle, 5/ “Aspects of the Short Novel,” The Writer’s Chronicle, May 1999 “Curious Attractions: Magical Realism’s Fate in the States,” The Writer’s Chronicle, December 1996 PERSONAL ESSAYS: "Mind of Winter,” Architecture Boston, winter 2006 “I Remember: Mary Berry,” Down East, May 2005 "Last Things," Ploughshares, Fall 1994; reprinted in Sister to Sister (Doubleday, 1996); The Pushcart Prize XX (Pushcart, 1996); A Broken Heart Still Beats: After Your Child Dies (MN: Hazelden Publishers, 1998, 2000); Life Studies (Boston: Bedford Books, 2001); Sorrows Company (Beacon Press, 2001); Healing (NY: Tarcher/ "The Lure of the West, " Ploughshares, Winner of 1993 Cohen Prize, Winter 1992 ARTICLES: “Thomas Moser’s Home,” Yankee, April 2004 “Fairy-Tale Cottage,” Yankee, September 2003 “Career Crossroads,” Continental, July 2000 “Is Your College-Bound Teen Headed for a Lifetime of Debt?” Coastlines, July/ Book ReviewsSebastian Faulks, HUMAN TRACES, San Francisco Chronicle, 9/ Darcy Wakefield, I REMEMBER RUNNING: THE YEAR I GOT EVERYTHING I EVER WANTED—AND ALS, Down East, June 2006 Mary Felstiner, OUT OF JOINT; Limi Sinton, BODY POLITIC; and Paula Kamen, ALL IN MY HEAD, The Women’s Review of Books, May/ Dara Horn, THE WORLD TO COME, San Francisco Chronicle, 1/ Myla Goldberg, WICKETT’S REMEDY, San Francisco Chronicle, 10/ MacKenzie Bezos, THE TESTING OF LUTHER ALBRIGHT, San Francisco Chronicle, 8/ Lee Martin, THE BRIGHTFOREVER, San Francisco Chronicle, 6/ Cynthia Ozick, HEIR TO THE GLIMMERING WORLD, Ms., Winter 2004/ Sandra Bark (ed.), BEAUTIFUL AS THE MOON, RADIANT AS THE STARS: JEWISH WOMEN IN YIDDISH STORIES, Women’s Review of Books, Fall 2004 Beth Harpaz, FINDING ANNIE FARRELL, Down East, April 2004 Edith Pearlman, LOVE AMONG THE GREATS, Radcliffe Quarterly, Summer 2003 Sabina Murray, THE CAPRICES, Ploughshares, Winter 2002 Erika Krouse, COME UP AND SEE ME SOMETIMES, Ploughshares, Winter 2001 Jane Smiley, HORSE HEAVEN, The San Francisco Chronicle, 4/ Tova Mirvis, THE LADIES AUXLIARY, Washington Post Book World, 12/ Philip Caputo, THE VOYAGE, The Chicago Tribune, 11/ Ha Jin, WAITING, The Boston Book Review, 12/ Haruki Murakami, THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE, Publishers Weekly, Fall 1997 Jennifer Egan, EMERALD CITY, Baltimore City Paper, 4/ R.S. Jones, WALKING ON AIR, Baltimore City Paper, 5/ Nina Felshin (ed), BUT IS IT ART? THE SPIRIT OF ART AS ACTIVISM, Baltimore City Paper, 11/ Melanie Sumner, POLITE SOCIETY, New York Times Book Review, 4/ Alice Mattison, THE FLIGHT OF ANDY BURNS, Boston Review, 6/ Ron Carlson, PLAN B FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS, Washington Post, 9/ Linda Svendsen, MARINE LIFE, Ploughshares, Winter 1993 Jonathan Dee, THE LOVER OF HISTORY, Ploughshares, Fall 1992 Clarus Backus, GROWING UP WESTERN, Prairie Schooner, Winter 1991 Karen Joy Fowler, SARAH CANARY, The Boston Sunday Globe, 10/ Charles Baxter, SHADOW PLAY, Harvard Review, Winter 1993 Jack Driscoll, WANTING ONLY TO BE HEARD, Harvard Review, Spring 1993 Ian McEwan, BLACK DOGS, Harvard Review, Winter 1993 Marguerite Duras, THE NORTH CHINA LOVER, Harvard Review, Winter 1993 Annie Dillard, THE LIVING, Harvard Book Review, Fall 1992 Janet Sternberg (ed.), THE WRITER ON HER WORK, VOL II and Pearlman and Henderson (eds.), INTER/ Stephen Dobyns, THE HOUSE ON ALEXANDRINE, Harvard Book Review, Summer/ Alice Munro, FRIEND OF MY YOUTH, Harvard Book Review, Win/ Martha Bergland, A FARM UNDER THE LAKE, Hungry Mind, Fall 1989 Patricia Weaver Francisco, COLD FEET, Hungry Mind, Fall 1987 Kaye Gibbons, ELLEN FOSTER, Hungry Mind, Fall 1987 Jayne Anne Phillips, FAST LANES, Hungry Mind, Summer 1987 Elinor Lipman, THEN SHE FOUND ME, The Boston Phoenix, 9/ Antonya Nelson, THE EXPENDABLES, The Boston Phoenix, 1/ A.G. Mojtabai, ORDINARY TIME, The Boston Phoenix, 12/ Mario Vargas Llosa, THE STORYTELLERS, The Boston Phoenix, 11/ Jonis Agee, PRETEND WE NEVER MET and BEND THIS HEART, The Boston Phoenix, 8/ Ellen Hunnicutt's IN THE MUSIC LIBRARY, The Wisc Academy Rev, Fall 1988 |
