OTHER WRITING
 
Stories and Essays
“The Boys’ School, or The News From Spain,” in Agni
“The Tunnel, or The News From Spain,” in Glimmer Train Stories (forthcoming)
“The Assignation, or The News From Spain,” in New England Review
“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
Link to Joan’s most recent op-eds
“Paris, and ghosts of the unthinkable”
“Alice’s adventures in retail land”
“Critics everywhere”
“How we met”
“A teaching moment”
“Love, old age, and Moose”
“My first summer job”
“A library tells a story of its own”
“The one-day vacation”
“The language of a marriage”
“Putting the human touch in health care”
“Memorials made of words”
“The myth of the Frankenstudent”
“Love, advanced”
“Cherish this time. It goes so fast”
“Mother, adversary, friend”
“The drama of the ‘Dear friends’ letter”
“The relentless ghost of Christmas future”
“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
        “A Day in the Life of an Icon”
        “Dreaming an Orchard”
        “Stand Up, Fight Back”
        “Taking Care of Buildings”
        “Old House, New Episode”
        “Public Displays of Affection”
  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