(recent writings)
The Washington Post
‘Woodworking’ is a funny, convincing takedown of American prejudice (March 4, 2025)
City of Night Birds Gives Readers a Thrill (November 26, 2024)
The mass appeal of Anne Lamott (April 6, 2024)
Stephen McCauley offers a witty look at a better world (January 9, 2024)
Menopause can be miserable. Jancee Dunn aims to make it better (May 8, 2023)
Hannah Halperin’s New Addiction Novel (April 5, 2023)
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)
The New York Times
I Got Gay Married. I Got Gay Divorced. I Regret Both. (January 7, 2017)
The San Francisco Chronicle
All we have is now. And each other. (January 2025)
Welcome Home, Stranger by Kate Christensen (December 5, 2023)
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 (August 26, 2016)
How to Party With an Infant by Kaui Hart (August 11, 2016)
Los Angeles Magazine
Writer in Residence: Profile of Susan Orlean (December 2021)
The Boston Globe
The Women by Kristin Hannah (February 7, 2024)
Fodor’s Travel
Can a Luxury Wellness Retreat Make Me Well Again? (May 2024)
The Los Angeles Review of Books
Colored Television, Danzy Senna ( September 4, 2024)
What About Men, Caitlin Moran, (October 30, 2023)
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 (November 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)
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)
Primal Screen (Summer 2021)
The Los Angeles Times
A tale of fashion, misogyny and the brutality of capitalism (September 18, 2024)
Weaving the personal and the political during the tumultuous 1970s (May 29, 2024)
The independent publisher making a business of celebrity book imprints (April 24, 2024)
A mother tries to exercise choice in the face of class struggles and incarceration (April 15, 2024)
Here’s Meredith at a gathering of Los Angeles writers (April 14, 2022)
Michelle Tea Launches LA’s Newest Publisher (December 18, 2023)
Aparna Nancherla Makes Comedy Out of Self-Doubt (September 19, 2023)
A new novel nails one kind of Covid experience. (July 4, 2023)
A white author and a Black editor teamed up to write bestsellers. It wasn’t always easy. (June 12, 2023)
Resurrecting a mammoth — and a family — in Ramona Ausubel’s wild and woolly new novel (April 18, 2023)
Salon
Screw the sisterhood! I’d rather screw your boyfriend (March 3, 2019)
“Where’s my wife already?”: Reflections on sex and the single feminist (January 27, 2016)
“I’m not drinking right now”: Sometimes even non-alcoholics need to stop (May 3, 2015)
The Oldster
Ask A Sober Oldster #3: Meredith Maran (August 12, 2023)
Hair (February 20, 2023)
Pasadena Magazine
A (Restorative) Quickie in Cancun (January 2025)
Against All Odds, A Civil Conversation (May 2024)