Selected Publications
"What I Learned Trying to Spend a Year Celibate" in New York Times Magazine
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"What to Read when You're Ready to Say No" in The Atlantic
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"Oh, Diana!" in Metropolitan Museum of Art
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"The Sexiest Year of My Life Involved Zero Sex" in New York Times
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"Dear Judy" in New York Review of Books
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"Can You Love the Art and Hate the Monster?" in The New Yorker
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"How I Learned the Art of Seduction" in New York Times
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"The Animal Within the Animal" in Astra Magazine
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"The Kindest Cut" in New York Times Magazine
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"The Return: The Art of Confession" in Sewanee Review
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"Jeannette Winterson, My Therapist, and Me" in New York Review of Books
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Memoirs Shortlist in New York Times Book Review
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"A Big Long Time" in Elle Magazine
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"Getting to No" in New York Times Magazine
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"What if the Pain Never Ends? New York Times
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Excerpt of Girlhood in the New York Times
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"The Wild, Sublime Body" in Yale Review
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"One Word: Loose" in Paris Review online
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Photo by Chris Luttrell
"How a Year of Celibacy Prepared Me for Life in Quarantine" in Vogue
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"The Mirror Test" in Paris Review
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"Mind Fuck: Writing Better Sex" in Sewanee Review
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"Art by Women About Women Making Art About Women" in The Believer
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"Thesmophoria" in Sewanee Review
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Review of Mostly Dead Things & A Philosophy of Ruin in the New York Times Book Review
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"Song of Songs" in The Believer
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"Playing Cupid" in New York Times Travel
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Essays Shortlist in New York Times Book Review
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"Do You Want to Be Known for Your Writing or Your Swift Email Responses?" in Catapult
Excerpt of Abandon Me in Tin House online
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"Reconciliation" in Lenny Letter
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"The Heart-Work: Writing About Trauma As A Subversive Act" in Poets & Writers
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"Teaching After Trump" in Granta
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"Feel Like Jumping: Best of the Women of Studio One" in Tin House online
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“The Book of Hours” in Story Quarterly
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“Call My Name” in Prairie Schooner
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“All of Me” in The Kenyon Review
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Melissa in the New York Times Opinionator
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