Selected personal essays:
What My Best Friend and I Didn’t Learn About Loss for Buzzfeed
How I Wrote My Novel (in Gmail) for The Hairpin
Why We Learn How to Fight for Healthyish
It should be time For Dodger baseball. Thanks to the lockout, we have to wait for LA Times
Finding Utopias Where We Can: On Hopeful Living as Resistance for LitHub
plus:
Kitchen Anxiety for The Atlantic’s Food Channel
On Growing up in the Kitchen for The Atlantic’s Food Channel
Holiday Dread: The Desert for The Awl
My Other Life: The Myth of Monsters for The Awl
Broken Glass for The Billfold
Places I’ve Lived for The Billfold
On Living Cheaply for The Billfold
When You Make Jews Afraid, All You Prove is That We’re Human, Too for Buzzfeed
50 Years of Porn: A Father/Daughter Story for byNWR (requires a login but there’s no paywall)
How to Deal With Anxiety: Breathwork for The Cut
Most of the Boys I’ve Made Out With So Far for The Date Report
Not the Border But the Space for Emily Books
Getting Rid of Some for Emily Books
Cooking Therapy for Healthyish
Writing a YA Novel Forced Me to Confront My Body Image Issues, Healthyish
Go To These Mineral Pools in Mexico and Try to Forget Social Media Exists for Healthyish
What You Learn Knocking on Doors in the Outskirts of LA for LA Magazine
Writing the Story of a Disappearing City for LitHub
Personal Geography, an essay series for Medium
Where Are Jewish Leaders on Trump? for the Jewish Journal
My Father the Wild Man, Larger Than Life for MEL Magazine
A week of posts about Hanson for One Week One Band
Soundtrack of Our Lives: The National on Gossip Girl for One Week One Band
A week of posts about Taylor Swift's 1989 for One Week One Band
A week of posts about One Direction’s Made in the A.M. for One Week One Band
California Girls for the Paris Review Daily
Raw Denim is Expensive and Uncomfortable and I Love It for Racked