“Trash.” The Dalhousie Review 101.1 (2021).
“How to Learn Everything: The MasterClass Diaries.” Longreads, August 20, 2020.
- Included in The 25 Most Popular Longreads Exclusives of 2020.
- Listed among the “Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2020” in The Best American Essays 2020, eds. Kathryn Schulz and Robert Atwan.
“Someone is Wrong on the Internet: A Study in Pandemic Distraction.” Literary Hub, June 19, 2020.
- Included in The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
- Featured on ArtsJournal
- Featured in BmoreArt’s The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week
“Home truths: A dispatch from Germany.” The Times Literary Supplement, April 24, 2020.
- Part of the Times Literary Supplement‘s “Lockdown around the world” series
“O limbă lipită de cerul gurii.” Scena9 2 (2019-20): 192-197.
“Reading Lessons.” How We Read: Tales, Fury, Nothing, Sound. Eds. Kaitlin Heller and Suzanne Conklin Akbari. Brooklyn: Punctum Books, 2019. 1-11.
- Reprinted in Longreads.
- Listed among the “Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2019” in The Best American Essays 2020, eds. André Aciman and Robert Atwan.
- Included in The 25 Most Popular Longreads Exclusives of 2019.
- 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.
“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.
“An Unreliable Alchemy.” The Marginalia Review of Books, November 10, 2017.
“Swan, Late: The Unexpected Joys of Adult Beginner Ballet.” Longreads. February 7, 2017.
- Included in Genia Blum’s “Essays of the Decade,” on Queen Mob’s Review of the Decade, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, December 28, 2019.
- Listed among the “Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2017” in The Best American Essays 2018, eds. Hilton Als and Robert Atwan. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
“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.
- Featured in Scena9‘s 2019 “Un calendar ilustrat.”
- Listed among the “Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2016” in Best American Essays 2017, eds. 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.
“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.
“Currywurst.” Petits Propos Culinaires 98 (2013): 71-77.
“Tasting Texas.” Southwest Review 97.1 (2012): 54-62.
- Listed among the “Notable Essays of 2012” in The Best American Essays 2013, eds. Cheryl Strayed and Robert Atwan. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
Flash & Fiction
“Line.” Brevity Magazine 16 (May 2021). (Flash nonfiction)
- Featured on The Humble Essayist, June 2021.
“Shift.” The Enneadecameron. 1 June 2020. (Story)
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