Books&OtherWriting
Novels
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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)