How To
Home, Mosque, and Synagogue: On Parenting and Sacred Spaces
“All the world is a mosque for a believer.”
How to Set Boundaries with a Trumpish, Toxic Mother
“Love is not contingent on taking abuse.”
How to Write a Screenplay in a Café
“Whether or not I find the café I want, the screenplay is waiting.”
A Conversation About Acne
“How much money do you think you’ve spent on acne treatment shit in your lifetime?”
The Making of a Comics Memoir
“Over thirty years of friendship amounts to quite a few stories. I whittled away at them to form the story I wanted to tell.”
A Case of Picnic Anxiety
Introducing End It Now?, an advice column. Question 1: What to do about nervous tics?
In Defense of Suspension Points
“Is the ellipsis an oft-abused stab at accounting for omissions or a way of marking time, which is to say breath, which is to say life, thought?”
Blank Books and Letting the Ink Dry
“What ideas burn so brightly that they should besmirch generous, bare pages?”
“Unfinished”: On Process and Met Breuer’s “Thoughts Left Visible”
“I can’t help but be reminded of all the times I had put off major revisions in my manuscript in favor of tinkering with the minor.”
Throwing It Out and Starting Again
“I now see fiction—my own and that of others—as work paused but never finished.”