Selected Non-Fiction and Essays

Essays and Opinions

Los Angeles Times:

• Last year, Hollywood managed to create at least one level playing field
• Madeleine L’Engle’s midcentury version of ‘she persisted’
• Hollywood’s female deficit isn’t going away
• When Women Cover War
• Gatsby, literature’s party animal, turns 90
• Is it really a wonderful time for women on TV?
• TV is a vast wasteland for women, and the Emmys prove it
• Female astronauts: Breaking the glass atmosphere
• A birth control double standard
• Obama’s speech: One for the ‘herstory’ books
• Flirting with Justice

The New York Times:

• So Much More Than Peter Rabbit

The Washington Post:

• And the Emmys for writer and director go to … a man. Again.

USA Today:

• I’m grieving ceremonies lost to coronavirus as my son marks a milestone a continent away

The San Francisco Chronicle:

• White men run the ballet world. That needs to change here in San Francisco
• A date which will live in infamy
• Toppling the patriarchy behind the tv screen
• The walls of Paris
• Women’s right to serve in the military still questioned
• Remembering Little Boy—and Little Girls
• Diverse films produce little diversity among Oscar nominees

San Jose Mercury News:

• Supreme Court’s uncivil union shakes confidence
• On the 30th anniversary of the first Women’s Olympic Marathon
• O’Connor’s ascension to Supreme Court was a milestone for today’s women

KQED, the San Francisco NPR affiliate:

• Nasty
• These Things Called Books
• The Great American Read, Part 2 (“My Summer with Scout” — an homage to librarians)
• The Gate of Tears
• My 54-year-old Face
• Fair Play
• Moonshot
• Progress Comes Slowly
• You’ve Come a Long Way, Barbie

Forbes:

• After The Debate: The Facts on Where the Candidates Stand on Crucial Issues (“The absolute best story about women’s issues stemming from the second Presidential debate” according to the Columbia Journalism Review)
• Reality Check: A Women’s View of the Economy on the Eve of the Election
• The Third Branch Holds Crucial Fruit for Women

Runner’s World:

• What the Medal Means
• The Turnaround

Writer’s Digest:

• Beg, Borrow and Steal

The Virginia Quarterly Review:

• Tsunami Faith

Book Reviews

I’m a member of the National Book Critics Circle, and has written a monthly audiobook roundup for the San Francisco Chronicle as well as occasional print reviews, including:

• ‘Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion,’ by Michelle Dean in the San Francisco Chronicle
• ‘A Secret Sisterhood,’ by Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney in the San Francisco Chronicle
• ‘Caught in the Revolution,’ by Helen Rappaport in the San Francisco Chronicle
• An Exquisite War on War, a review of Roxana Robinson’s Sparta
• Iron(ing) Man, a review of Hilma Wolitzer’s An Available Man in Ms.
• NBCC Reads Resistance Lit: Meg Waite Clayton on Mark Zusak’s The Book Thief, a piece which also appeared on Literary Hub

Interviews and Profiles

• The Grit Behind the Glamour: The Rise of “Modern Family’s” Two-Time Emmy-Winning Director, Gail Mancuso in Los Angeles Review of Books
• A Firsthand Novel of Surreal Afghanistan, an interview with What Changes Everything author Masha Hamilton in Ms.
• From Paper to Pixels: Eric Zorn of the Chicago Tribune in University of Michigan LSA Today Magazine
• Caroline Leavitt Throws Stones at Her Own Characters in the Huffington Post
• Going Back to the Page: An Interview with Tatjana Soli in The Millions

Travel

• Five Literary Itineraries in the English Lake District in Fodors
• 15 Liberating Ways to Experience Paris: A Walking Tour for the August 25 Anniversary of its Liberation in Huffington Post
• Thirty-Four Things You Should Know about Paris in the anthology A Paris All Your Own: Bestselling Women Writers on the City of Light

Select Short Fiction

Perfect Circles from Shenandoah

Imagining Isabelle from Other Voices

The Blistering Cure from South Carolina Review

Funny What You Forget from South Dakota Review