Some personal news, as they say

I'm usually behind the scenes editing, but I was so charmed by 'House of Cotton,' a new novel that is so weird, so dark, so smart and so refreshing, I had to write about it. nytimes.com/2023/04/04/boo…

Weekend baking project: peanut butter stuffed brownies

I found Alice Winn's new book IN MEMORIAM absolutely addictive; a queer WWI love story filled with glorious sentences. Check out my review! nytimes.com/2023/03/07/boo…

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I reviewed a few books! I hope you'll read! nytimes.com/2023/02/28/boo…

Weekend baking adventure: chocolate chip toffee cookies 🍪✨

Happy Valentine's Day, I wrote about murder! An honor and a privilege to review for New York Times Books 🖤

nytimes.com/2023/02/14/boo…

my review of Sonora Jha's THE LAUGHTER is up at New York Times Books today! this book is laugh out loud funny and about as timely as it gets!

nytimes.com/2023/02/14/boo…

RIHANNA LOOK OUT

My profile of Paul Harding is in print this weekend!!

(And you can read it online here too: nytimes.com/2023/01/22/boo…)

I reviewed Marisa Crane's I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself, a beautiful novel with one of my new favorite fictional narrators nytimes.com/2023/02/11/boo…

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For the last 8 months, Eve Lyons, Alice Fang and I have been working on a new visual series called Where We Are. It's about young people coming of age and the spaces where they create community, and we’re beyond thrilled to share the first story today! nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Woke up thinking about Tyre Nichols’ family. Thinking about a man who was a father, a son, a friend. Thinking about how unsettling it was to have a countdown to the release of the tape. Thinking about what it means, for all of us, to have to go through this again & again & again.

It took a decade, and some luck, for Paul Harding to publish his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'Tinkers.' Now, he's back with another devastating tale, 'This Other Eden.' nyti.ms/3H2CnBx