Girls: "It's a Shame About Ray"
Shame and Her Sisters
February 5th, 2013“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
Los Angeles Review of Books
Girls: "Boys"
Big Boys Don't Cry
February 18th, 2013
Here Comes the Tidal Wave: On "Enlightened"
A love letter to the riskiest show on cable
February 28th, 2013
Girls: "It's Back"
Experimenting with Plot
March 6th, 2013
Girls: "Together"
Girls Is Not fun.
March 20th, 2013
Black Blood: Ross Macdonald and the Oil Spill
An offshore oil platform stood up out of its windward end like the metal handle of a dagger that had stabbed the world and made it spill black blood.
April 22nd, 2011
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