News
Kristen Arnett wrote an extremely thoughtful review of The Absolutes for The Washington Post Book World. Read it here.
Writing & Interviews
Fiction
“The Rally.” The Yale Review, June 2023.
“Pink and Lilac.” The Rumpus, June 2023.
“The Counterfactual.” The Sonora Review, September 2023.
“The Bed and Breakfast.” Harvard Review (print), April 2023.
“Il Castello dei Mann.” A short story in N+1, March 2023.
“The Cactus Garden.” A short story in Works Progress, October 2022.
“Federica.” A short story in Fence, June 2022.
“Ethel.” A short story in the Sewanee Review, October 2020.
Nonfiction
On my mournful and chaotic diary from age 11, in the Paris Review Daily.
On the art world’s favorite backpack, for The Strategist.
On a favorite book, Julien Gracq’s The Opposing Shore, for the Sewanee Review. Link.
Recommending Primo Levi and Mike Davis during the Covid-19 crisis, for Vogue UK. Link.
A review of Sue Rainsford’s debut novel Follow Me to Ground for the New York Times. Link.
On living in a Paris bookstore for Rookie. Link.
Absolutes related
Essay for Lithub: “Beyond tropes: on writing straight characters while queer.” Link.
Video tour of my bookshelf for Belletrist. Link.
Ash Family related
Essay for Lithub: “A cult can be you and your weird charismatic friend.” Link.
Radio interview with Frank Stasio for The State of Things, WUNC. Link.
Interview with Writer’s Digest: Breaking In. Link.
Interview with the Raleigh News and Observer. Link.
Interview with J.W. Bonner for Kirkus. Link.
Interview with Articles of Antiquity. Link.
Recommendations for Poets and Writers’ Writers Recommend. Link.
Playlist for Largehearted Boy. Link.
Interview for a Lithub essay by Katie Cusumano about recent novels featuring young women and cults. Link.
Podcast with Mitzi Rapkin for First Draft from Aspen Public Radio. Link.
Instagram story about bookshelves for Belletrist. Link.
Ash Family Reviews
The New Yorker Briefly Noted // The New York Times // Paris Review Staff Picks // Minneapolis Star-Tribune // Associated Press // Chicago Review of Books // New York Journal of Books // Fredericksburg Free Lance Star // Book Reporter // Arts Fuse // Barrelhouse // Booklist // Kirkus // Publishers Weekly
Past Events
4/8/19, Manhattan, New York: Barnes & Noble, Upper West Side. 7pm. Link.
4/10/19, Brooklyn, New York: McNally Jackson Williamsburg, with Dinaw Mengestu. 7pm. Link.
4/16/19, Durham, North Carolina: Regulator Book Shop. 7pm. Link.
4/22/19, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Porter Square Books. 7pm. Link.
4/27/19, Providence, Rhode Island: Providence Book Festival. 1:40 – 2:25pm at the Renaissance Providence Downtown Hotel. A panel of debut fiction writers including Abby Fabiaschi and Maura Roosevelt. Link.
5/6/19, New York, New York: NYPL Young Lions.
7/26/19, Sewanee, Tennessee: Fellow reading at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference with Edgar Kunz and Jesús Valles. Link. And link to a video of the reading, including some Ash Family and some new work.
8/24/19, Manhattan, New York: Debut authors’ panel at the Writer’s Digest Annual Conference with Keah Brown, Daniela Petrova, and Sara Sover. Link.
12/5/19, Manhattan, New York: “The Author and her Team” panel at CLMP’s Literary Writers Conference with PJ Mark and Emily Graff, moderated by Rachel Lyon. Link.
7/7/20, Zoom: Greensboro Bound panel discussion with Carter Sickels and Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne. Link.
