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o the Oprah Magazine

Discover The Survivalists, Kashana Cauley’s Sharp and Witty Debut (January 10, 2023)
Casey Parks’ Diary of a Misfit Is a Brutal and Brave Memoir of Queer Identity (August 26, 2022)
Joyce Carol Oates keeps breaking her own glass ceiling (Summer print issue, 2022)
Jean Hanff Korelitz returns with a novel that skewers privilege (June 9, 2022)
Julia Glass’s latest, “Vigil Harbor” (May 24, 2022)
In “Body Work,” Melissa Febos Declares That “Writing Is a Form of Freedom  (March 10, 2022)

Los Angeles Times

Travis Bickle, meet Toni Morrison in Priya Guns’ New Novel (March 1, 2023)
How Barbara Kingsolver Makes Literature Topical (October 18, 2022)
How LA’s Writers Spent Their Two-Year Pandemic (March 16, 2022)
Debbie Millman on Why Design Matters (February 23, 2022)
On Baring (Almost) All in Stories (January 28, 2022)
Author Hilma Wolitzer lost her husband to COVID-19. So at 91, she wrote a story about it (August 26, 2021)
For a scorched-earth memoirist, truth-telling is a feminist act: A Profile of Gina Frangello (March 31, 2021)
A Novelist’s Fierce Homage to New Mexico’s Latinx Heritage: Q&A with Kirstin Valdez Quade (March 27, 2021)
Everything You Should Know About The Hollywood New Books Boom (February 11, 2021)
David Duchovny has more passions than his new protagonist has wives (Jan 27, 2021)
Younger by Pamela Redmond (Sept 8, 2020)
Q&A: For the love of celebrity with Julie Klam, author of ‘The Stars in Our Eyes’ (Aug 18, 2017)
Watch Me Disappear by Janelle Brown (July 28, 2017)
The Nest
 by Cynthia D’Aprix (March 24, 2016)
Year of Yes
 by Shonda Rhimes (Nov 29, 2015)
Refund by Karen Bender (Jan 25, 2015)
Some Luck by Jane Smiley (Oct 12, 2014)

BookRiot

The Book I Can’t Stop Recommending: Novelist Meredith Maran (March 2012)

Boston Globe

The Way We Weren’t by Jill Talbot (July 31, 2015)
Migratory Animals by Mary Helen Specht (Jan 23, 2015)
Mothers and Lovers by Maria Flook (Dec 31, 2014)
Joan of Arc by Kathryn Harrison (Nov 1, 2014)
Eat, Drink & Remarry
 by Margo Howard (Oct 17, 2014)
What I Know for Sure
 by Oprah Winfrey (Sep 2, 2014)
News From Heaven by Jennifer Haigh (January 22, 2013)
This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman (August 7, 2011)

Chicago Tribune

Don’t Call Me Princess by Peggy Orenstein (February 20, 2018)
Vacationland 
by George Hodgman (Oct 31, 2017)
The Stars in our Eyes
 by Julie Klam (July 18, 2017)
Watch Me Disappear by Janelle Brown (July 10, 2017) 
Every Kind of Wanting
 by Gina Frangello (Sept 14, 2016)
Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings
 by Stephen O’Connor (July 19, 2016)
Bukowski in a Sundress
by Kim Addonizio (July 8, 2016) 
Alain de Botton considers love again in new novel
 Alain de Botton (June 15, 2016)
The Houseguest Kim Brooks (May 3, 2016)
The Narrow Door Paul Lisicky (Jan 21, 2016)
The Lightkeepers
 Abbi Geni (January 6, 2016)
White Dresses
 Mary Plum (Nov 12, 2015)
How to Cook a Moose
 Kate Christensen (Sept 17, 2015) 
Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff (Sept 10, 2015)
Mrs. Bennet Has Her Say
 Jane Juska (July 30, 2015)
Blackout Sarah Hepola (June 18, 2015)
Our Town
 Kevin McEnroe (May 7, 2015)
What Comes Next and How to Like It by Abigail Thomas (April 2, 2015)
Unabrow
 Una La Marche (March 26, 2015)
My Sunshine Away
 by Mo Walsh (Feb 12, 2015)
The Woman I Wanted to Be
 by Diane von Furstenberg (Dec 18, 2014)
Electric City
 by Elizabeth Rosner (Nov 13, 2014)
Being Miss America
 by Kate Shindle (Nov 6, 2014)
Powers of Two
 by Joshua Wolf Shenk (Aug 22, 2014)
Bad Feminist
by Roxane Gay (Aug 15, 2014)
Life Drawing
by Robin Black (June 20, 2014) 
A Replacement Life
 by Boris Fishman (June 1, 2014)

Christian Science Monitor

The Misfit’s Manifesto by Lidia Yuknavich (Oct 30, 2017)
My Life with Bob
by Pamela Paul (May, 1, 2017)
Hourglass by Dani Shapiro (April 12, 2017)

Good Housekeeping

The Same Sky by Amanda Eyre Ward (February 2015)
Wake Up Happy Every Day
 by Stephen May (December 2014) 
The Secret History of Wonder Woman
 by Jill Lepore (November 2014)

Washington Post

How Laura Zigman mines real life to create memorable fiction (January 5, 2023)
Michelle Tea’s memoir exposes the pain—and comedy of infertility. (August 26, 2022)
Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward: Unlikely couple and artistic force (April 3, 2022)
Lan Samantha Chang Likes a Challenge (January 30, 2022)
Deborah Copaken Never Wanted to be Shutterbabe (August 3, 2021)
For Today’s Feminists, Sex Makes a Comeback (June 17, 2021)
Glennon Doyle doesn’t work alone: The ‘Untamed’ author and agent Margaret Riley King discuss their creative process (March 24, 2021)
Q&A with Anne Lamott: Dusk Night Dawn: On Revival and Courage (March 1, 2021)
All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg (March 1, 2017)

Los Angeles Review of Books

To Rouse and Repel: A Conversation with Maggie Nelson on the Rhetoric of Freedom (September 20, 2021)
The Unruliness of Life: A Conversation with Marisa Silver (May 14, 2021)
No Guarantees: An Interview with Christina Baker Kline (Nov 29, 2020)
Horror Has Become Normal: An Interview with Gish Jen (July 8, 2020)
One Voice in a Great Chorus: An Interview with Rebecca Solnit (June 15, 2020)
Declassified: An Interview with Jessica Pearce Rotondi (June 12, 2020)
What It All Meant: A Conversation with Alex Halberstadt (March 10, 2020)
Funhouse Mirror: An Interview with Laura Zigman on “Separation Anxiety” (March 2, 2020)
The Unthought Known: An Interview with Dani Shapiro (February 7, 2019)
She Wants It by Jill Soloway (November 29, 2018)
Q&A: For the love of celebrity with Julie Klam, author of ‘The Stars in Our Eyes’ (Aug 18, 2017)
Early Warning by Jane Smiley (May 18, 2015)

People Magazine

Ruby by Cynthia Bond (February 11, 2015)
Small Victories by Anne Lamott (November 24, 2014)
The Secret Place
 by Tana French (September 18, 2014)
The Vacationers
 by Emma Straub (June 6, 2014)
No Book but the World
 by Leah Hager Cohen (April 10, 2014)
The Death of Santini
 by Pat Conroy (December 2, 2013)
Stitches
 by Anne Lamott (November 1, 2013)
Longbourn by Jo Baker (October 18, 2013)
Margot
 by Jillian Cantor (September 16, 2013)
Big Girl Panties
 by Stephanie Evanovich (July 29, 2013)
Blue Plate Special
 by Kate Christensen (July 22, 2013)
The Why of Things
 by Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop (June 24, 2013)
Sparta
 by Roxana Robinson (June 21 2013)
Big Brother by Lionel Shriver (June 21 2013) 
Homeward Bound
 by Emily Matchar (May 29, 2013)
Mirror Mirror
 by Kjerstin Gruys (May 22, 2013) 
The Humanity Project
 by Jean Thompson (May 15, 2013)
Orphan Train
 by Christina Baker Kline (April 8, 2013)
Abide With Me
 by Sabine Willett (April 1, 2013)
Mary Coin
 by Marisa Silver (March 25, 2013)
The Aviator’s Wife
 by Melanie Benjamin (February 11, 2013)
She Matters
 by Susanna Sonnenberg (January 21, 2013)

San Francisco Chronicle

The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer (April 20, 2018)
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (February 8, 2018)
I’m Supposed to Protect You From All This
 by Nadja Spiegelman (Aug 26, 2016)
How to Party With an Infant
 by Kaui Hart (Aug 11, 2016)
A Wedding in Provence by Ellen Sussman (July 31, 2014)
The Secret Life of Objects
 by Dawn Raffel (July 2, 2012) 
Wife 22
 by Melanie Gideon (June 3, 2012)
No Cheating, No Dying
 by Elizabeth Weil (February 5, 2012)
The Taste of Salt
 by Martha Southgate (September 11, 2011)
The Psychopath Test
 by Jon Ronson (May 31, 2011)

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