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Personal Essays “My Grief Is a Student of the Humanities,” Mid-American Review “Monuments,” Full Grown People, November 9, 2017“Soft Spot,” Beautiful Things column, River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, October 30, 2017“The Suck,” Tin House Online , October 25, 2017“Auteur,” Hippocampus Magazine , April 1, 2016“The 781 Days,” Mutha Magazine , September 17, 2015“The Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card,” Full Grown People , March 12, 2015 (named a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2016 )“Running Late,” Readers Write column, The Sun, January 2014 (scroll to the bottom!)“Not So Gladly Teach,” Moving On: Essays on the Aftermath of Leaving Academia [the whole anthology is available on Kindle here “Dyad,” Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction , May 2008“Will That Child Step Off the Screen and Into Our Lives?” Modern Love column, The New York Times, October 8, 2006“On Not Liking Kim Chee,” The North American Review, November/December 2005Other Kinds of Writing
“On Steve,” blog post about a contributor to The Iowa Review , July 2019“A Story of Intellectualizing an Affair,” introduction to fiction by Suzanne Scanlon, Electric Literature, April 26, 2017“Election Candidates Aren’t ‘The Same,'” Iowa City Press-Citizen , October 6, 2016Introduction/Liner Notes (co-written with Kembrew McLeod), For Kids and By Kids “A Tribute to David Hamilton,” speech at my mentor’s retirement celebration, April 2012“Recent Memoir: Butterscotch, Black Chairs, and Breeders,” The Iowa Review , Spring 2006 Like this: Like Loading...
