For The Compulsive Reader, here’s my review of Jonathan Rosen’s compelling portrait of his childhood friend Michael Lauder, a book that raises questions about the responsibility of friendship and the human capacity for denial.
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For Terrain.org, I reviewed Oliver Milman’s superb book on the insect crisis.
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For the Alabama Writer’s Forum, I reviewed Rick Bragg’s memoir about life and death in a small Southern town, a world where beauty is ringed with sadness and cruelty.
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For The Rumpus, I reviewed Jennifer Finney Boylan’s most recent memoir.
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For the Los Angeles Review of Books, I reviewed Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman’s new memoir, “Sounds Like Titanic,” which chronicles the years she spent working as a sham violinist for a nationally recognized American composer.
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For the Los Angeles Review of Books, I reviewed “Rising Out of Hatred,” by Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow. It’s the story of a young man raised in the heart of white nationalism — and expected to lead it into the next generation — who disavows the movement and goes on to speak out against its evils.
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For Brevity, I wrote a review of Karen Auvinen’s debut memoir, Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living.
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For the Los Angeles Review of Books, (LARB), I reviewed New York Times reporter John Branch’s new book, “The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West.”
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For Brevity, I wrote a review of “Saving Tarboo Creek” by Scott Freeman
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Here’s my first piece for The Hairpin — an interview with Caitlin Doughty, author of “From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death.”
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