Reviews, Profiles, ArticlesI've interviewed Natalie Angier, Alice Sebold, and Elizabeth Streb. Listed below are some of the books I've reviewed: The Stories of Alice Adams, Alice Adams Incubus, Ann Arensberg Tamarind Woman, Anita Rau Badami The Three Button Trick and Other Stories, Nicola Barker The Houdini Girl, Martyn Bedford The Leper’s Companion, Julia Blackwell A Citizen of the World, Maclin Bocock Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg Shamrock Tea, Ciaran Carson The Width of the Sea, Michelle Chalfoun Famous After Death, Benjamin Cheever Windward Heights, Maryse Condé The Old Ballerina, Ellen Cooney The Wedding, Imraan Coovadia Prize Stories 1998: The O. Henry Awards, series edited by Larry Dark The Walking Tour, Kathryn Davis Fasting, Feasting, Anita Desai Lili, Abigail DeWitt Sleep, Stephen Dixon The Suburbs of Heaven, Merle Drown Self-Portrait with Ghosts, Kelly Dwyer What’s the Girl Worth? , Christina Fitzpatrick My Sister from the Black Lagoon, Laurie Fox Four Corners, Diane Freund How All This Started, Pete Fromm The Journey, Indira Ganesan The Bondwoman’s Narrative, Hannah Crafts, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Joss and Gold, Shirley Geok-lin Lim Wild Life, Molly Gloss Bing Crosby’s Last Song, Lester Goran By Way of Water, Charlotte Gullick Mother of Pearl, Melinda Haynes The Mulberry Empire, Philip Hensher The Fairest Among Women, Shifra Horn Dolce Agonia, Nancy Huston The Pollen Room, Zoë Jenny East Into Upper East: Plain Tales from New York and New Delhi, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Waiting, Ha Jin Hungry Ghosts, Susan Johnson High Bonnet: A Novel of Epicurean Adventures, Idwal Jones Chinominey’s Secret, Nancy Kim The Angle Quickest for Flight, Steven Kotler This Place Called Absence, Lydia Kwa Rush Home Road, Lori Lansens Our Arcadia, Robin Lippincott Blue Throat Morning, Jacquie Lofthouse The Barbarians Are Coming, David Wong Louie The Fundamentals of Play, Caitlin Macy The Songcatcher, Sharyn McCrumb Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution, Patrick McGrath Blues Dancing, Diane McKinney-Whetstone Conditions of Faith, Alex Miller The World Below, Sue Miller Rapture, Susan Minot A Cup of Light, Nicole Mones Water, Carry Me, Thomas Moran The Love of a Good Woman, Alice Munro A History of Silence, Barbara Neil The Persia Café, Melany Neilson Living to Tell, Antonya Nelson Faithless, Joyce Carol Oates A Perfect Wife, Cristina Odone The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, Ann Packer Stealing the Ambassador, Sameer Parekh Mary, Mary, Julie Parsons In the Castle of the Flynns, Michael Raleigh The Song and the Truth, Helga Ruebsamen Blindness, Jose Saramago The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold The Savage Girl, Alex Shakar The Lion in the Room Next Door, Merilyn Simonds The Smoking Book, Lesley Stern All the Finest Girls, Alexandra Styron The Way People Run, Christopher Tilghman Back When We Were Grownups, Anne Tyler The Best American Short Stores of the Century, John Updike, editor; Katrina Kenison, series editor The End of Marriage, Nina Vida Diamond Dogs, Alan Watt |
Selected WorksFiction
The Sweet, Sad Songs of W. F. Pine
Novel under construction! The Orphan Game
A novel narrated in the voices of three women: a pregnant teen; her mother; and her great-aunt, the family scapegrace. Slow Burn
The first section of The Orphan Game. Short Fiction
Stories old and new Nonfiction
Writing about Science
The Dollhouse Murders: A Forensic Expert Investigates 6 Little Crimes
Stories based upon Thomas P. Mauriello's miniature reconstructions of crime scenes and crime scene investigations. Programmed Cell Death: Natural Cancer Suppression
The loss of cell sacrifice—the most common defect in cancer cells. Bugs for Drugs
Using viruses and bacteria to combat cancer. Having Children After Cancer: Preserving Fertility
With cryopreservation and the right chemotherapy, cancer survivors may still have children. |