Books&OtherWriting

Novels

• Minus Me

  • January 2021
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• Of Men and Their Mothers

  • 2008
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• How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life

  • 2006
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• The End of an Error

  • 2003
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• Host Family

  • 2000
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• Mail

  • 1997
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Essays and Critique

• "How I learned to like my unusual name," Boston Globe, 2017
• "The guy I didn't choose," Boston Globe, 2016
• "Uncle Arthur had a knack for embarrassing us, but that's family," Boston Globe, 2016
• "In the annals of unforgettable eccentric relatives, there's Aunt Felicia," Boston Globe, 2014
• "Wait Till You See What I Found For You," What My Mother Gave Me (anthology), Algonquin Books, 2013
• "Candelabra and Chipped Pain," The New York Times, 2011
• "Losing a slice of Bangor," Boston Globe, 2011
• "Seen through a therapist's eyes, characters unfurl," Boston Globe, 2010
• "Matt Stewart's 'The French Revolution,' a novel first released on Twitter," Washington Post, 2010
• "Scenes from a Marriage," Boston Globe, 2010
• "Confessions of a Faux-Food Fanatic," (PDF), originally published on Gourmet.com, 2009
• "Oh, Lord, Oh Lourdes, Alors!" (PDF) originally published in How to Spell Chanukah, Algonquin Books, 2007
• "Separation Anxiety," (PDF) originally published in The Readerville Journal
• "Decorating DNA," (PDF) originally published in The Boston Globe Magazine
• Book Review: Stephen King's On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (PDF), originally published in Newsday
• "My Ongoing, Quirky, and Passionate Relationship with Stuff" (PDF)