Short Stories |
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Title |
Published in |
“The Mountain” |
The Quarterly, Summer 1987, New York |
“Miracles in America” |
The Quarterly, Winter 1987, New York |
“Via delle Rose” |
The Quarterly, Spring 1988, New York |
“In Amber” |
The Quarterly, Spring 1989, New York |
“My Boy’s Girl” |
The Quarterly, Winter 1989, New York |
“Mask” |
Bellevue Literary Review Vol. 15, No 2, New York |
“Correspondence” |
The Quarterly, Winter 1994, New York |
“Peaches and Plums” |
Ploughshares Winter, 1994-5, Boston |
“The Original” |
The American Voice. Vol.38, 1995 Louisville |
“The Bride’s Secret” |
Redbook August ,1996, New York |
“Structure” |
Yale Review April, 1996, New Haven |
“Invitation to a Voyage” |
The Antioch Review Summer, 1996, Yellow Springs |
“On the Money” |
The Columbia Review 1996, New York |
“Luck” |
The Massachusetts Review Spring,1997, Amherst |
“Ambush” |
The Yale Review October, 1998, New Haven |
“Water Baby” |
New Letters Vol. 64 No I, Kansas City |
“Bells on her toes” |
American Scholar, 2012, Washington, D.C |
“Magic Man” |
The Yale Review, 2012, New Haven |
“Terror” |
Long Island Noir, 2012, New York |
“Rings on her fingers” |
The American Scholar, Summer 2012 |
“Fiction” |
Fiction no. 58 2012 |
“Magic Man” |
Yale Review 2012 |
“The Kindness of Strangers,” |
Yale Review 2013 |
“Nothing Matters but Matter” |
Ellery Queen mystery magazine December 2016 |
“The Darling” |
Ellery Queen (in press) |
“The Real Thing” |
The Yale Review 2016 Vol. 104 |
“On Watching Breaking Bad” |
Salmagundi Summer 2017 |
“Fantasy and Reality: Getting Revenge in Fiction” |
Paris Review’s blog, 2017 |
“Shrink” |
New Letters Vol 84 2017/18 |
“My Mother’s Gift” |
The American Scholar Summer 2018 |
“One Girl” |
The Antioch Review 2018 |
“The Nanny” |
Subtropics spring/summer 2018 |
“Monsieur Andre” |
Fiction summer 2018 |
“Miss Martin” |
“Cutting Edge” edited by Joyce Carol Oates ( in Press) |
“The Teacher” |
Salmagundi ( coming in Spring 2019) |
“How to create a convincing and interesting character” |
Agni’s blog 2019 |
” The Third Party” | Salmagundi Fall 2021 winter 2022 |
“The Constancy of Things” | American Scholar Spring 2022 |
“In a Secret Country” | Ellery Queens coming in May 2022 |
“Familiar Ghosts”
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Fiction No 66 2023 |
“Turnabout” | Ellery Queen’s March 2024 |
“Revenants” | The American Scholar in press |
Publications |
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Title | Published in |
“Rain Check” | New Letters Vol. 66 No. 3, Kansas City |
“Cracks” |
Paris Review Winter 1997-8, New York |
“Disguise” |
Bomb Fall 1998, Denville |
“Underworld” | Yale Review October,2000, New Haven. |
“Paris by Night” |
Paris Review Fall, 2001, New York |
“Casualty” |
The Ontario Review Fall/Winter2000/2001, Princeton |
“The Adulterous Woman” |
DoubleTake Fall, 2001, Somerville |
“Death in Rome” |
The Antioch Review Vol. 59, Winter 2000, Yellow Spring |
“Arequipe and Smoke” |
Fiction Vol. 17 No. 1, New York |
“Youth” |
Five Points summer, 2001, Atlanta “Pithiviers” Fiction Vol. 15 No I, New York |
“Lunch with Mother” |
Yale Review |
“Baboons” |
Ontario Review Press Princeton |
“Travelogue” |
Boulevard, St. Louis |
“The Transitional Object” |
Boulevard and The O.Henry Prize Stories, 2007 |
“Night at the Grand Hotel” |
Ontario Review, spring-summer, 2008 |
“Symbols” |
The American Scholar, summer 2008 |
“Heart Attack” |
Boulevard, spring, 2009 |
“Grief” |
Salmagundi, spring-summer 2009 |
“Obsession” |
Fiction magazine summer 2010 |
“Diamonds” |
Subtropics spring 2010 |
“Musical Chairs” |
Boulevard, St. Louis, spring 2010 |
In press “The Third Party” | Salmagundi |
MEMOIRS |
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Title |
Published by |
Once We Were Sisters |
Penguin, January 2017 |
NOVELS |
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Title |
Published by |
“The Perfect Place” |
Knopf 1989, New York And in England by Jonathan Cape 1990 And in translation in French, Japanese, German and Portuguese |
“The House on R Street” |
Knopf 1994, New York |
“Cracks” |
Zoland 1999, Boston And in England by Bloomsbury 2000 And in translation in French, Dutch and Hebrew. |
“The Children of Pithiviers” |
Zoland 2001, Boston Steerforth And in paper with The Other Press 2006 |
“Crossways” |
Ontario Review Press 2004 Princeton and in paper with The Other Press 2007 |
“Bluebird or the Invention of Happiness”
“Becoming Jane Eyre” “Love Child” |
Other Press, 2006, New York, Viking, Penguin, 2009, New YorkViking Penguin, (in press) |
The Bay of Foxes |
Penguin, 2012 |
Dreaming for Freud |
Penguin, July 2014 |
Open Secrets |
Penguin in July 2020 |
COLLECTIONS OF SHORT STORIES |
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Title |
Published by |
“Miracles In America” |
Knopf 1990, New York |
“One Girl” |
Helicon Nine 1998, Kansas City |
“Stories from Another World” |
Ontario Review Press 2003 Princeton |
POEMS |
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Title |
Published by |
“Shepherd” |
In Unleashed 1994, New York |
PRIZES |
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O.Henry Prize for “The Mountain” 1989 |
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Open Voice Prize for “Ambush” 1991 |
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Willa Cather Prize for “One Girl” 1998 |
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(Nominated ) Impac Award for “Cracks” 2001 |
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Antioch Review Prize for work in that magazine 2004 |
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O.Henry Prize for “The Transitional Object” 2007 |
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“Magic Man” – Best American Short Stories 2013 |
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“Miss Martin” published in Best American Mystery in 2020 | |
ANTHOLOGIES |
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Title | Published in |
O.Henry Prize Stories |
1989 |
Best American Stories ( “Africans”) |
1999 |
KGB Reader (“Cracks”) |
1998 |
O.Henry Prize Stories |
2007 |
Contemporary American Short Fiction. Selected by Joyce Carol Oates, Ecco Press |
2008 |
Love you to Pieces. Edited by Suzanne Kamata, Beacon |
2008 |
Because I love her edited by Andrea Richesin |
2009 |
New Jersey Noir |
2012 |
Long Island Noir |
2012 |
“Finding the Love Child” in “What my mother gave me” edited by Elizabeth Benedict. |
2013 |
“The Harlot and the Murderer” in “It occurs to me that I am America” edited by Jonathan Santlofer |
2017 |
Miss Martin in “The Cutting Edge” edited by Joyce Carol Oates ( New stories of mystery and crime by women writers) |
2019 |
“Miss Martin” published in Best American Mystery |
2020 |
RECORDINGS |
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Title | Recorded at |
“Africans” |
Symphony Space and for Best American Short Stories 1999 |
RADIO SHOWS |
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Title | Recorded at |
“The Book That Changed My Life: Part Two” |
The Connection (NPR) |
NON FICTION |
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Title | Published in |
“In different guises, the stories that occur and recur” |
Boston Globe 1995 |
“An enchanting house of ideas” |
The New Leader 2002 ( Review of Milan Kundera) |
Review of Margot Livesey |
Bomb magazine |
Colette and Moravia |
Bomb magazine |
O Magazine 2004 |
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“What Dante Knew” |
New Letters 2005 |
“Identity” |
Salmagundi 2004 |
Introductory essay on Richard Ford |
3×33 Short Fiction by 33 Writers 2005 |
“This is where the dog comes in” “Sisters” “Free to Read” “Grief” “When we two parted” in “Crush” edited by Nicki Richesin “Love Child” |
In the Modern Love column in the Style Section of the New York Times and in the London Telegraph. April 2006 The Bellevue Literary Magazine, 2007 Poets and Writers , summer 2007 Harlequin, 2011 Salmagundi 2012 by Therese Eiben |
Three essays on Freud |
Yale Review, Boulevard and New Letters 2014 |
“Silences” |
The American Scholar Autumn 2014 |
“The Other Woman” |
The American Scholar 2015 |
“Fantasy and Reality” in the Paris Review ( Daily) 2017 |
The Paris Review ( Daily) 2017 |
“Camouflage” |
The American Scholar 2019 |
“The Windmills of the mind” or what to read during the pandemic |
The American Scholar online 2020 |
Freud as Fiction Writer in “On the Couch” essays edited by Andrew Blauner
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Princeton Press, in May 2024 |
Truth and Fiction
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Salmagundi in March 2024 |
Middlemarch as Murder story in press |
Ellery Queen’s blog |