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WRITING & ARTICLES

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 Fiction

BENNINGTON:

• The Carnal Education


LA LETTURA/CORRIERE DELLA SERA:

• Sotto Le Rose
• Ritorna Peter Pan
• I Peccati Dei Gabbiani

Selected Non-Fiction

Jill Eisenstadt the Bennington Girl

The Bennington Girl

I’m seventeen when my father first pegs me as a “Bennington girl.” I’ve never heard the college mentioned, but immediately recognize the name from Franny and Zooey. Salinger’s Bennington girl looks “like she’d spent the whole train ride in the john, sculpting or painting or something, or as though she had a leotard under her dress.” If that’s how Dad sees me—as a weird, messy artist—it’s also how I see myself, in Rockaway Beach, Queens, NY circa 1980. Read the rest…

  • Bungalow Chic?
  • The Maid’s Tale
  • Something Happened
  • By the Sea, a Moorish Palace Reborn
  • My Brother, the Licensed Know-It-All
  • Bugged
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New York Magazine
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…

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