I love, love Sara Gran’s novels, especially her Claire De Witt series. My smash note over at CrimeReads.
Essays & Criticism
Is This Any Fun?
Full text finally available on the Believer website: I wrote about my former professor, Richard Poirer, for The Believer.
Breaking up with The Bachelor
I had a lot of thoughts about The Bachelor, which I wrote about for Avidly.
Rape Stories are Crime Stories
Here’s an essay I wrote for Crime Reads about why books about rape are labeled memoir instead of true crime.
The New Sameness of Leslie Jamison’s Addiction Memoir
For JSTOR Daily, I wrote a critique of addiction memoirs featuring Leslie Jamison’s The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath.