Help! I Wrote to Prudie for Advice and Rebecca Makkai Answered. | Slate
I stepped in as Prudie for the day and give advice for Slate, and you can read it here
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Guest blogger Rebecca Makkai on “Literary Mansplaining” | READ HER LIKE AN OPEN BOOK
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.
Light Years | Guernica
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.
The Power and Limitations of Victim-Impact Statements | The New Yorker
I wrote about the power and limitations of victim-impact statements, and you can read about it here.
Lost & Found: Rebecca Makkai on George R. Stewart | Tin House
I wrote about George R. Stewart’s Ordeal by Hunger, and you can read about it here.
Children of the Fifty-Sixers: Growing Up in Hungarian Chicago | Newcity
I wrote about growing up with pockets of Hungary all around me and you can read about it here.
Curating a New Literary Canon | Electric Lit
I wrote about who (and what) deserves to be in America’s first museum dedicated to writers, and you can read about it here.
The Delicate Art of Character Folding | The Masters Review
I wrote about character folding for the Masters Review, and you can read it here.
Part of a Bigger Conversation: An Interview with Rebecca Makkai | Fiction Writers Review
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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.
A Prayer for Budapest | Oprah Daily
For Oprah Daily, I wrote about revisiting my father’s hometown—and the capital of Hungary—to find traces of our shared past. You can read about it here!
