This Beautiful Life is One Big, Beautiful, Underage, Internet Sex Scandal
Review of This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman for The New York Observer
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Review of This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman for The New York Observer
Review of Not Now, Voyager by Lynne Sharon Schwartz for The Common
Thoughts on Jamaica Kincaid’s Autobiography of My Mother for Granta.com
“When I was growing up, I felt like everyone had the same idea of the neighborhood—it was your defense against being invisible. It’s almost like Manhattan was not thought of as a place to live.”
Talking with Roland Kelts about a special English-language edition of the Japanese literary magazine, Monkey Business
Where most authors’ shelves are lined with books, a wall in Jonathan Baumbach’s living room is devoted entirely to videocassettes, many of them bootlegged copies with yellowed, handwritten labels.
Review of The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah for Tottenville Review
Review of Ether by Evgenia Citkowitz for Tottenville Review
Review of The Rehearsal, by Eleanor Catton for Tottenville Review
Short short, Waccamaw
Short story, Granta.com