Selected Publications
Selected Publications
Oprah Daily, Longreads, Los Angeles Times, and more
Selected publications
Essays
“I Am So Much More Than a Diagnosis,” Oprah Daily, May 2022
“I received six psychiatric diagnoses in 25 years. They were a dead end” (op-ed), Los Angeles Times, May 2022
“The Fully Fact-Checked Memoir: Backing Up Facts, Standing Behind Truth,” Poets & Writers, March/April 2022
“Teaching Writing to Children with Autism While in the Grip of Anxiety,” Lit Hub, March 2022
“On Loneliness (and Solitude and Isolation [and Brackets]),” Longreads, March 2020
“When the Happy Pill Ends,” Michigan Quarterly Review, January 2020
“Latana Foods Strawberry Hummus,” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, January 9, 2019
“How to Talk to Shakespeare, H.G. Wells, and Emily Dickinson,” The Atlantic, March 14, 2013
“Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of the Self-Interview,” The Paris Review Daily, July 2, 2011
“Delivering Gatsby,” The Paris Review Daily, August 18, 2010
Reviews & Literary Criticism
“Finding Asylum: Esmé Wigun Wang’s ‘The Collected Schizophrenias,’” The Millions, March 28, 2019
“The Transcendentalist,” The New York Times Book Review, June 15, 2012
“Introduction,” Critical Insights: Slaughterhouse-Five,” Salem Press, 2012
“Sex and Prophecy,” The New Republic, January 10, 2012
“Women of Masada,” The New York Times Book Review, October 21, 2011
“A Cheating Husband’s World,” The New York Times Book Review, March 25, 2011
“Memory’s Harvest,” The New York Times Book Review, July 30, 2010
“Love, Labor, Loss,” The New York Times Book Review, April 30, 2010
“Fiction Chronicle,” The New York Times Book Review, November 20, 2009
“Men of Steel,” Bookforum, February/March 2009
“East Meets West, East Loses West,” The New York Times Book Review, January 2, 2009
“Choosing their Disappointments,” The New York Times Book Review, September 7, 2008
“A Manuscript of Ashes by Antonio Muñoz Molina,” Bookforum, September 2008
“How to Be a Man,” The New York Times Book Review, March 16, 2008
“Sleepless Nights,” The American Scholar, spring 2008
“Homing In,” The New York Times Book Review, November 25, 2007
“Sarah Fay on Jill Bialosky’s The Life Room,” Bookforum, September 2007
“Wide World,” The American Scholar, summer 2007
“Missing,” The New York Times Book Review, March 25, 2007
Arts & Culture Journalism
“What’s Missing from Oprah’s Book Club 2.0,” The Atlantic, June 18, 2012
“The Precarious State of the Literary Interview,” The Atlantic, May 23, 2012
“Could the Internet Save Book Reviews?” The Atlantic, May 7, 2012
“Book Reviews: A Tortured History,” The Atlantic, April 24, 2012
Literary Journalism: Long-form Interviews and Profiles
“Javier Marías: The Art of Fiction No. 190,” Longform, 2016 (reprint)
“Fiction Born of Rival Impulses: A Conversation with Wells Tower,” The Iowa Review, spring 2011
“Interview with Michael Silverblatt,” The Believer, June 2010
“A Lowly Humble Bookworm: A Conversation with Michael Silverblatt,” The Iowa Review, spring 2010
“Ha Jin, The Art of Fiction No. 202,” The Paris Review, winter 2009
“Kay Ryan, The Art of Fiction No. 94,” The Paris Review, winter 2008
“America’s Busiest Poet,” TIME Magazine, July 23, 2008
“Marilynne Robinson, The Art of Fiction No. 198,” The Paris Review, fall 2008
“Kenzaburo Oe, The Art of Fiction No. 195,” The Paris Review, winter 2007
“Javier Marías, The Art of Fiction No. 190,” The Paris Review, winter 2006
“Jack Gilbert, The Art of Poetry No. 91,” The Paris Review, fall 2005
Anthologies (reprints)
“Ha Jin: The Art of Fiction No. 202,” Writers at Work Around the World: Interviews from the Paris Review, Paris Review Editions, 2019
“Interview with Pankaj Mishra,” Oh Yes, That’s What I Was Doing: Conversations about Writing from the Believer Magazine, eds. Vendela Vida, Ross Simonini, and Sheila Heti, San Francisco: McSweeney’s, 2013
“Marilynne Robinson, The Art of Fiction No. 198,” The Paris Review Interviews IV, New York: Picador, 2009
“Jack Gilbert, The Art of Poetry No. 91,” The Paris Review Interviews I, New York: Picador, 2006