Other Published Works
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Two young Americans meet en route to studying in Spain and forge an unusually close friendship. Once back in the United States, one of the women, who is married, invites the younger to come live with her and her husband. Over time a ménage à trois develops. But that isn’t what causes the ultimate rift in the friendship. Something deeper and more insidious had been at work from the very beginning. In this exploration of what underlies certain powerful friendships, the author examines the unacknowledged factors that sometimes attract us to one another—but can also make the relationship go painfully awry.
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Anthology Contributions
The Best of O, The Oprah Magazine, editors of the Oprah Magazine (Oxmoor House, 2007).
The Best Spiritual Writing, edited by Philip Zaleski and Kathleen Norris (Harper San Francisco, 2000).
The Best American Movie Writing 1998, edited by George Plimpton (St. Martin’s Press, 1998).
The Best Writing on Writing, edited by Jack Heffron (Story Press, 1994).
About Face: 22 Women Writers Look in the Mirror and Talk About What They See, edited by Christina Baker Kline and Anne Burt (Seal Press, an imprint of Perseus, May 2008).
Jewish in America, edited by Sara Blair and Jonathan Freedman (The University of Michigan, 2003).
The Movies: Texts, Receptions, Exposures, edited by Laurence Goldstein (The University of Michigan, 1996).
New Readings in Late Medieval Love Poems, edited by David Chamberlain (University of Press America, 1993).
The Practical Stylist, With Readings (8th edition), edited by Sheridan Baker (Addison-Wesley, 1998).
Sister to Sister: Women Write About the Unbreakable Bond, edited by Patricia Foster (Anchor Books, 1997)
Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft (4th edition), edited by Janet Burroway (Addison-Wesley, 1999).
Periodicals
Literary Nonfiction Essays
Ploughshares: “Becoming Visible,” Fall 2009.
The New York Times Op-Ed: “Reality Bites,” February 4, 2007.
The Chronicle of Higher Education: “The Fleeting Sweetness of Love and Writing,” May 13, 2005.
“Strange Alchemy: Hearing Past the Professor,” September 10, 2004.
The Michigan Quarterly Review: “My Jewish Perversion,” Winter 2003.
“Relinquishing Oz: Every Girl’s Anti-Adventure Story,” Winter 1996.
The Forward: “Hot Real Estate in the Land of the Dead,” December 29, 2000.
The New York Times Book Review: “Envy, the Writer’s Disease,” November 26, 1989, cover essay.
Travel Essays
The New York Times
“Enthralled in Madrid, by Madrid,” November 11, 2002.
“Notes from Offshore,” on a visit to Block Island, October 3, 1999.
“Bits and Pieces of an Alter Ego,” on a visit to Belize, March 14, 1999.
“Travels in Limbo,” on a visit to the Dominican Republic, November 24, 1996.
“Back Home: Neither Here Nor There,” on a visit to Mexico, August 6, 1995.
“Time Out for Two: A Lakeside Reverie,” on a visit to Lake George, September 4, 1994.
“Adrift in the Hazy Beauty of a Bog,” on a visit to Maine, October 21, 1990.
Cultural Reviews
The Forward
“Sproing! The Unexpected Sensuality of Melded Steel: A Retrospective of the Work of Feminist Sculptor Ann Sperry,” February 21, 2004.
“A Wandering Jew with a Post-Holocaust Sensibility: ‘Underneath the Lintel’ at the Soho Playhouse, July 5, 2002. “Biblical Follies Now Playing at the Folksbiene,” November 23, 2001.
“A Painterly Anne Frank Cries ‘I Believe in Life!’: Charlotte Salomon's Watercolors,” January 19, 2001.
“A Jew in Wharton’s ‘House of Mirth,’” January 5, 2001.
“Ms. Saturday Night: My New Life as Borscht Belt Convert," November 10, 2000.
Essays in National Magazines
Essays published in More, O., the Oprah Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, Redbook, and Self.
Short Fiction
Cosmos Press Magazine, “The Eyeglasses,” Winter 1994.
Another Chicago Magazine “The Communist,” Fall 1990.
River Styx, “Seize the Day," Spring 1990.
River Styx, “The Sunday Wife,” Spring 1989.
Playgirl Magazine, “The Pathology of Love,” October 1987.
The Best of O, The Oprah Magazine, editors of the Oprah Magazine (Oxmoor House, 2007).
The Best Spiritual Writing, edited by Philip Zaleski and Kathleen Norris (Harper San Francisco, 2000).
The Best American Movie Writing 1998, edited by George Plimpton (St. Martin’s Press, 1998).
The Best Writing on Writing, edited by Jack Heffron (Story Press, 1994).
About Face: 22 Women Writers Look in the Mirror and Talk About What They See, edited by Christina Baker Kline and Anne Burt (Seal Press, an imprint of Perseus, May 2008).
Jewish in America, edited by Sara Blair and Jonathan Freedman (The University of Michigan, 2003).
The Movies: Texts, Receptions, Exposures, edited by Laurence Goldstein (The University of Michigan, 1996).
New Readings in Late Medieval Love Poems, edited by David Chamberlain (University of Press America, 1993).
The Practical Stylist, With Readings (8th edition), edited by Sheridan Baker (Addison-Wesley, 1998).
Sister to Sister: Women Write About the Unbreakable Bond, edited by Patricia Foster (Anchor Books, 1997)
Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft (4th edition), edited by Janet Burroway (Addison-Wesley, 1999).
Periodicals
Literary Nonfiction Essays
Ploughshares: “Becoming Visible,” Fall 2009.
The New York Times Op-Ed: “Reality Bites,” February 4, 2007.
The Chronicle of Higher Education: “The Fleeting Sweetness of Love and Writing,” May 13, 2005.
“Strange Alchemy: Hearing Past the Professor,” September 10, 2004.
The Michigan Quarterly Review: “My Jewish Perversion,” Winter 2003.
“Relinquishing Oz: Every Girl’s Anti-Adventure Story,” Winter 1996.
The Forward: “Hot Real Estate in the Land of the Dead,” December 29, 2000.
The New York Times Book Review: “Envy, the Writer’s Disease,” November 26, 1989, cover essay.
Travel Essays
The New York Times
“Enthralled in Madrid, by Madrid,” November 11, 2002.
“Notes from Offshore,” on a visit to Block Island, October 3, 1999.
“Bits and Pieces of an Alter Ego,” on a visit to Belize, March 14, 1999.
“Travels in Limbo,” on a visit to the Dominican Republic, November 24, 1996.
“Back Home: Neither Here Nor There,” on a visit to Mexico, August 6, 1995.
“Time Out for Two: A Lakeside Reverie,” on a visit to Lake George, September 4, 1994.
“Adrift in the Hazy Beauty of a Bog,” on a visit to Maine, October 21, 1990.
Cultural Reviews
The Forward
“Sproing! The Unexpected Sensuality of Melded Steel: A Retrospective of the Work of Feminist Sculptor Ann Sperry,” February 21, 2004.
“A Wandering Jew with a Post-Holocaust Sensibility: ‘Underneath the Lintel’ at the Soho Playhouse, July 5, 2002. “Biblical Follies Now Playing at the Folksbiene,” November 23, 2001.
“A Painterly Anne Frank Cries ‘I Believe in Life!’: Charlotte Salomon's Watercolors,” January 19, 2001.
“A Jew in Wharton’s ‘House of Mirth,’” January 5, 2001.
“Ms. Saturday Night: My New Life as Borscht Belt Convert," November 10, 2000.
Essays in National Magazines
Essays published in More, O., the Oprah Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, Redbook, and Self.
Short Fiction
Cosmos Press Magazine, “The Eyeglasses,” Winter 1994.
Another Chicago Magazine “The Communist,” Fall 1990.
River Styx, “Seize the Day," Spring 1990.
River Styx, “The Sunday Wife,” Spring 1989.
Playgirl Magazine, “The Pathology of Love,” October 1987.