Nonfiction
ESSAYS
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“I’ve Always Felt More Like You: On Disability and the Second Person” from Brevity
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"Pass/Fail" from Prairie Schooner
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"My First VHS: Rain Man" from Hobart
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"Audiobooks: The Past, Present, and Future of Another Way to Read" from Literary Hub
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"You Are Not What You Used to Be" from Slag Glass City
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"All the Answers" from Waxwing
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"Everything You've Never Tasted in Taco Bell" from The Museum of Americana
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"How Prince Helped Me Feel Seen" from Literary Hub
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"Do Audiobooks Count As Reading?" from Literary Hub
Notable Essay, Best American Essays 2019 -
"Try to Imagine What Silence Looks Like: A Tribute to Prince" from Barrelhouse
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"On Being a Writer Who Can't Read" from Literary Hub
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"My First Failure" from The Quivering Pen
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"My Life Story, Someone Else’s Voice: Why I Won’t Be Narrating My Memoir’s Audiobook" from Literary Hub
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“Pseudonym: On Vision Loss and Hiding in Plain Sight from My High School Classmates" at Salon
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"The Painful Cost of the Writing Life: An Excerpt from Blind Man’s Bluff" featured at Literary Hub
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"Incredible Shrinking World: An Excerpt from Blind Man’s Bluff" featured at Shondaland
An Excerpt from Blind Man's Bluff
OTHER NONFICTION
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"Audiobooks Are Not Lesser Versions of Reading" from Literary Hub
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"The Day the Llamas Came to the Bookstore" from Literary Hub
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"Five Tips for Smart Self-promotion of Your Book on a Small Budget" from Writer's Digest
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"Seven Things I've Learned So Far" from Writer's Digest
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"Writer's Notes: Writing about Place" from The Mantle
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I write about how I find inspiration in the "Writers Recommend..." series at Poets & Writers
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I write about some recent books I loved, including memoirs by Jennifer Grey, Sarah Polley, and Amy Bloom in the "Bedtime Stories" column at The Washington Independent Review of Books