The Abortion I Didn’t Have
“I never thought about ending my pregnancy. Instead, at 19, I erased the future I had imagined for myself.”
Longform Best of 2021
Essays
I Was 12 When We Met
“Blake Bailey was my favorite teacher. Years later, he forced himself on me. Why did I seek his approval for so long?”
Dancing Through New York in a Summer of Joy and Grief
“Part of the joy of social dancing, especially out in a broader public beyond the family home, is that we will never be able to identify all the faces that spin by, the hands that nudge our backs to pass.”
The Storyteller
On the writer W.G. Sebald.
Naked Grief
On illness, lockdown, marriage, and intimacy.
