I'm loving Julie Orringer's new novel, The Flight Portfolio, and I'm really excited to be in conversation with her next week at Politics...

I'm so grateful to the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, whose grant will allow me to spend two weeks at the Virginia Center for Creative...

I'm really looking forward to reading with the brilliant Alice McDermott at 6PM, November 28th. More information here.

It was fun to talk to Sarah Harrison Smith, at Omnivoracious, about a book that helped me become a writer. The full piece-- with Isabel...

It was lovely to go into our local Barnes and Noble and see Meantime on the front table....

I love getting to talk with reading groups. If your reading group is considering Meantime, please feel free to e-mail me about setting...

I'll be reading on November 10th at 7 PM at The Ivy Bookshop, 6080 Falls Road. We'll all be still recovering from election day. Come...

"An unflinching autopsy of the heart, laying bare the raw emotions that push us to reconfigure, again and again, our senses of family."--...