Published Writing

San Francisco Chronicle:
05.23.08 | "'The End of the Jews' is more of a beginning
09.17.07 | "African explores a triracial Ohio town"
05.18.07 | "Search for cure tests sick man's dignity"
03.14.07 | "How loving dogs makes us more human"
12.14.06 | "Desperate lives viewed through the refracting lens of history"
09.03.06 | "Every happy relationship is different"
07.23.06 | "Young, unsure—and Jewish, by the way"

Nerve.com:
03.26.08 | "The Sushisexuals: The depressing truth about my dating history"
01.08.08 | "Weird Date: The Fortuneteller"
07.31.07 | "Radio Friendly: A non-listener goes undercover at an NPR singles event"
10.24.07 | "Insane in the Membrane"
05.07.07 | "Accidental Tourist"
03.07.07 | "Californication"
11.24.06 | "The Buddha of Suburbia"

Paste Magazine:
12/1.08 | "Going South: Lonely South Africans at home & abroad"
03.27.07 | "The Lowdown on High School"

Nextbook.org:
03.20.07 | "Late Bloomer"

The Jewish Daily Forward:
09.09.07 | "Parsing the messy terrain of the heart"

Publishers Weekly:
01.29.07 | "A Writer Takes Off at 90"

Bookslut.com:
12.01.05 | Review: Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
10.01.05 | Review: The Barbary Wars
08.01.05 | Review: Lunar Park
07.01.05 | An Interview with David Markson
06.01.05 | Review: Schlepping Through the Alps
04.01.05 | Review: Ashes for Breakfast
04.01.05 | Review: Black Maria
03.01.05 | Review: When I Was A Loser
03.01.05 | Review: Second Space
02.01.05 | Review: Buffalo Head Solos

Flak Magazine:
01.09.07 | Film: Sweet Land
07.27.06 | Opinion: Aaron Spelling: 1923-2006
06.22.06 | Music: Words Are Enough: Morrissey
05.01.06 | TV: Texas Ranch House
12.02.05 | TV: Da Vinci & The Code He Lived By
11.17.05 | TV: Iconoclasts
11.07.05 | TV: The Crusades
11.01.05 | TV: Random 1
08.24.05 | TV: The Remote: TV Too Far From Your Couch
03.15.05 | TV: Blind Justice
02.11.05 | Books: Footnote* & So You Wanna be a Rock and Roll Star
01.21.05 | The Splog: Spam Poetry

Popmatters.com:
11.14.05 | "Excerpts from the Misery of Grandaddy"
10.07.05 | Nada Surf (Live)
09.30.05 | "Finally Professional: Nada Surf at Ten Years"
09.19.05 | "Something to Make You Stop Thinking..."
07.14.05 | Alicia Keys (Live)
06.28.05 | Skeletons & The Girl-Faced Boys (Live)

The Willamette Week:
08.10.05 | "To Pop or Not to Pop? That's sort of the question"

BKLYN Magazine:
09.09.05 | Social Calendar
09.09.05 | 718: "In Other Developments"
09.09.05 | "The Fall Lineup"

SparkNotes Study Guides:
12.01.06 | Deborah Eisenberg "Twilight of the Superheroes"
12.01.06 | Edgar Allen Poe "The Fall of the House of Usher"
12.01.06 | A+ Essay: Joyce Carol Oates "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" and John Updike "A&P"
11.01.06 | Sue Monk Kidd The Secret Life of Bees
10.01.06 | Henry James The Ambassadors