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Essays

 

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Modern Daily Knitting: How knitting helps loss in and out of prison
 

Jewish Book Council: A Shared history: Returning to my Mother's Roots

Jane Friedman: Turn Fact into Fiction, Without Hurting Someone or Getting Sued

Psychology Today: After the Estrangement, from "Runs in the Family," the blog/column I write
 

The Daily Beast: Maybe it's time we gave this Manson Family killer a break

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Writer's Digest: Why it's okay to hire a developmental editor and not keep it a secret

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Book Trib: Naming Names and rewriting history: Why I used my family's real names in Days of Wonder.

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OLDER ESSAYS
 

The Daily Beast I Was in a Coma But No One Will Tell Me What Happened

Poets & Writers: The Novel I Buried Three Times (with Jonathan Evison)

Psychology Today: My Mother's First Love at 93

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The Manifest-Station: To Mom With Dementia

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The Manifest-Station: My Mother's Boyfriend and Me
 

The Millions: Killing Me Softly

 

The Jewish Book Council: Hilarious and Horrifying: 
How Pop Culture Reveals the 50s

 

New York Times Modern Love: A Writer's Tortoise Leads the Way to Happiness

Feed Me anthology: The Grief Diet

 

The Weeklings: Caroline, No

 

New York Magazine: High Infidelity 

 

Salon: Belly Wounds

 

Salon: Dating The Birth Mother

 

Salon: My First Husband's Girlfriend and Me

 

Salon: The Husband From Hell