I wrote about the plastic party favor of a compliment, doled out to any writer who’s made decent use of setting: “Your setting is so alive, it’s almost a character!” and you can read it here.
I stepped in as Prudie for the day and give advice for Slate, and you can read it here
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I wrote about (among other things) Rebecca Solnit’s 2008 essay “Men Explain Things to Me” that indirectly gave rise to the term “mansplaining,” and you can read my thoughts on this issue here.
I wrote
about a kiss on the lips that might as easily have been a kiss on the forehead, and you can read it here.
I wrote about the power and limitations of victim-impact statements, and you can read about it here.
I wrote about George R. Stewart’s Ordeal by Hunger, and you can read about it here.
I wrote about growing up with pockets of Hungary all around me and you can read about it here.
I wrote about who (and what) deserves to be in America’s first museum dedicated to writers, and you can read about it here.
I wrote about character folding for the Masters Review, and you can read it here.
I talked with my former StoryStudio student, Jennifer Solheim about research, getting behind a book, and braiding narratives in The Great Believers, and you can read it here.
