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My new novel Isola will be published February 4, 2025.  Isola will be published in the UK by Summit Books in June, 2025.


My review of Julia Armfield’s Private Rites in The New York Times Book Review.


My story “Ambrose” appears in The New Yorker, September 30, 2024


My story, “The Last Grownup” appears in The Best Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winnersed. Amor Towles.


My review of Ela Lee’s Jaded in The New York Times Book Review.


Sam is out in paperback.


My story “$” is out in the fall issue of Freeman’s.


My review of Tom Rachman’s The Imposters is in The Washington Post.


My review of Caitlin Shetterly’s Pete and Alice in Maine is in The New York Times Book Review.


I am a Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Visiting Writer, fall semester 2023.


My new story “The Last Grownup” is out in The New Yorker.


Sam is the January pick for the Today Show’s Read With Jenna Book Club.  Here is the video of my Q&A on the Today Show.


My essay in Sapir on what it means to be a Jewish writer in the 21st Century.  “Judaism Without Borders, Diaspora Without Tears.”


My essay in The Wall Street Journal.  “Why Winter’s a Treat if You Grew Up in Hawaii.


My essay for Lit Hub.  “Why I Had to Grow Older to Write About Youth.”


I did the Boston Globe VIP Lounge Questionnaire.


Bookreporter published my essay about holiday book giving.


Vogue published my essay about my daughter and her surgery.