Articles
Town & Country: The Rockaways Were Once a Playground for the Astors and Vanderbilts
LITHUB: Surviving the Literary Brat Pack
Largehearted Boy: Book Notes music playlist for Swell
Selected Anthologized Work
New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of the New York Times
edited by Constance Rosenblum
Queens Noir
edited by Robert Knightly
Altared: Bridezillas, Bewilderment, Big Love, Breakups, and What Women Really Think About Contemporary Weddings
edited by Colleen Curran
Make Mine a Double: Why Women Like Us Like to Drink (or Not)
edited by Gina Barecca
Best Sex Writing 2008
editd by Grachel Kramer Bussel
Forgotten Borough: Writers Come to Terms With Queens
edited by Nicole Steinberg
Selected Non-Fiction
Love and Air-conditioning: Holed Up in Gramercy Park
We were at a wedding in D.C. when Michael turned on the TV to find our neighbors on CNN being interviewed as “survivors.” Our co-op, on 20th Street and Third Avenue, had been the epicenter of a massive steampipe explosion. Back in August 1989, such an event was considered a major New York City disaster; several people died. When our co-op board found asbestos in the boiling mud that spewed through our broken windows, we were not allowed back in for months. Con Ed sent us to live in the still-seedy Gramercy Park Hotel. Read the rest…