OTHER WRITING
 
Stories and Essays
“The Woodwork” in Ploughshares. Winner of the 2007 Cohen award.
“An Attempt at a Biographical Essay,” in Agni
“Psychological Impact,” in The Hudson Review
“Almost,” in Glimmer Train Stories
“What About the Gun” in Agni
“Munich,” in The Hudson Review
“In the Heart,” in The Hudson Review
“The Off Season,” in Ploughshares
“Cold Front,” in Glimmer Train Stories
“Paint,” in Story
“Lena,” in Story
“Commuter Marriage,” in The Hudson Review.  Also included in The Best American Short Stories 1990 and The Graywolf Annual Eight, and reprinted in translation in Grazia (Italy)
“The Shadow of the Mountain,” included in Sister to Sister, edited by Patricia Foster (Doubleday, 1995)
Also excerpted in Glamour
On-air essays for WBUR/National Public Radio shows On Point and Morning Edition
Book reviews and essays in The Boston Globe, Yankee, and other publications
 
Op-eds for the Boston Globe
“If Jane Austen had a laptop”
“Broken body, sharp mind, no good home”
“’Mad Men’ culture survived the ‘60s”
“A Labor Day picnic worth checking out”
“Breaking suicide’s silence”
Writing about Architecture
“The Lurker,” a bi-monthly column created for Architecture Boston
  1. “Drills, Drooling Dolts, and Dominique”
  2. “Life, Death, and Real Estate”
  3. “Show Business”
  4. “A Final Thesis Crit”
  5. “In the MIT Glass Lab”
  6. “An Evening With a Zoning Appeals Board”
 “Plimoth Plantation,” Architecture Boston
 “Bricks and Politics: What Gets Built at Harvard, What Doesn’t, and Why,” Harvard Magazine