Public Writing
Written by Irina Dumitrescu
Contributed to The Times Literary Supplement‘s roundup, “Electric conversations: Twenty-five writers reflect on the magazines and journals they have enjoyed over the years.” October 25, 2019.
“Heel turns.” The Times Literary Supplement (print, lead cover story), September 20, 2019.
Featured in Longreads, “A Close Look at the Thing We Call ‘Celebrity’,” by Aaron Gilbreath.
Featured in Arts & Letters Daily’s Essays & Opinions.
Featured on Perlentaucher.de, Magazinrundschau
Featured in BmoreArt’s The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week
“Door Open for Beauty: On Deborah Tobola’s “Hummingbird in Underworld: Teaching in a Men’s Prison, a Memoir.” Los Angeles Review of Books, August 2, 2019.
“Reading Lessons.” How We Read: Tales, Fury, Nothing, Sound. Eds. Kaitlin Heller and Suzanne Conklin Akbari. Brooklyn: Punctum Books, 2019. 1-11.
Reprinted in adapted form at Longreads.
Featured in Vox’s weekly roundup of best writing on books.
Featured in Arts & Letters Daily’s Articles of Note.
Featured in BmoreArt’s The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week
Featured in Cărturești’s weekly roundup.
“Renaissance Man.” The New York Times (print), June 2, 2019.
“Physical, cultural, personal: The demands of dance.” The Times Literary Supplement (print, lead cover story), February 1, 2019.
“Old English” (In Brief review). The Times Literary Supplement (print), January 11, 2019.
“Hunger Games: Three Memoirs Where Food Takes Center Stage.” The New York Times (print), January 6, 2019.
See also “8 New Books We Recommend This Week“, The New York Times, January 10, 2019.
Contributed a pick to Longreads Best of 2018: Food Writing.
“‘Bio-Nazis’ go green in Germany.” Politico Europe (print), July 12, 2018.
“Literature as Lifeline: The Exile in “Call Me Zebra”.” Los Angeles Review of Books, March 18, 2018.
“The Kid Is All Right: In Defense of Picky Eating.” Serious Eats, February 13, 2018.
Featured in Longreads: “You Don’t Have to Eat It,” by Catherine Cusick.
Included in the Top 5 Longreads of the Week.
Included in Autostraddle’s Things I Read That I Love #257.
Featured in Omni.se.
Translated into Chinese by Chunhui Li. Posted with permission here.
“Teachers and Students.” Aeon, February 7, 2018.
Included in the Tampa Bay Times’ The Reading File.
Contributed a pick to Longreads Best of 2017: Food Writing.
“An Unreliable Alchemy.” The Marginalia Review of Books, November 10, 2017.
“About the Cover.” postmedieval 8.3 (2017): 267–269.
Contributed a reading recommendation for Zócalo’s Summer Book List
“Appetite (and iron-clad stomach) for success. The art of stuffing yourself while chancellor.” Politico.eu, June 17, 2017.
“Swan, Late: The Unexpected Joys of Adult Beginner Ballet.” Longreads. February 7, 2017.
Listed among the “Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2017” in The Best American Essays 2018
(With Berit Andersson) “Research Fellowships in Germany for Scholars in the Humanities.” Guest post at In the Middle, November 8, 2016.
“A Place of Absence, Loss, and Transcendence.” Part of a Zócalo Public Square conversation on “Why Libraries’ Survival Matters.” September 29, 2016.
“The Curious Appeal of ‘Bad’ Food.” The Atlantic, August 5, 2016.
Reprinted in Best Food Writing 2017, ed. Holly Hughes. New York: Da Capo Press, 2017. 7-12.
“‘Frivolous’ Humanities Helped Prisoners Survive in Communist Romania.” Zócalo Public Square, May 25, 2016.
Featured among Editors’ Picks on Discover
One of Zócalo Public Square’s 12 Favorite Essays of 2016, December 2016
“War and the Food of Dreams: An Interview with Cara De Silva.” Rumba Under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi, ed. Irina Dumitrescu. Brooklyn: Punctum Books, 2016. 53-77.
“Terpsichore.” Rumba Under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi, ed. Irina Dumitrescu. Brooklyn: Punctum Books, 2016. 197-199.
“The Things We Take, The Things We Leave Behind.” Southwest Review 101.1 (2016): 13-29.
Winner of a McGinnis-Ritchie Award for nonfiction from the Southwest Review.
Published in Romanian as “Lucrurile pe care le luăm cu noi, lucrurile pe care le lăsăm în urmă,” translated by Iulia Gorzo, in Scena9, September 30, 2019.
Listed among the “Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2016” in Best American Essays 2017, edited by Leslie Jamison and Robert Atwan. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
“Dance, Mama.” The Manifest-Station. September 26, 2015.
“Why ‘that’ photo mattered this time: Our children could be on that beach, too.” On Parenting for the Washington Post. September 8, 2015.
“Dancing for Humanity.” fuse. A Tribal & Fusion Belly Dance Magazine 15 (2015): 11-12.
“My Father and the Wine.” The Yale Review 103.2 (2015): 51-64.
Reprinted in Wine Reads: A Literary Anthology of Wine Writing, ed. Jay McInerney. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2018. 295-309.
Reprinted in The Best American Essays 2016, eds. Jonathan Franzen and Robert Atwan. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. 56-68.
Nominated for the MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award, from the James Beard Foundation, March 2016.
Translated into Chinese by Chunhui Li. Posted with permission here.
Featured in the Longreads roundup Six James Beard Finalists You Might Have Missed: A Reading List
Audio version featured in Choice Magazine Listening’s Fall 2015 issue.
“On the Future of Old English.” Guest post at In the Middle, January 2014.
“Currywurst.” Petits Propos Culinaires 98 (2013): 71-77.
Cited in Giulia Pines’ BBC Travel article, “How sausage flavours the German language,” January 3, 2018.
Reprinted in the launch issue of The Tenderloin, July 31, 2017.
“Tasting Texas.” Southwest Review 97.1 (2012): 54-62.
Listed among the “Notable Essays of 2012” in The Best American Essays 2013
Featured in the roundup, A Food-Writing Prescription to Cure Clean-Eating
“The School’s Embrace.” This Book is a Class Room, eds. Lucie Kolb and Romy Rüegger. Berlin: Passenger Books and HIT, 2012. 43-44.
Responses by Sjoerd Westbroek and Tanja Baudoin.
“Hidden Treasures at the Met Museum.” Guest post at In the Middle, July 2009.
