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About my NPR interview — or, how I realized one piece of punctuation embodies my life philosophy
Nov 16, 2025
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A Paris Taxi Confession
On shame, strangers, and the book I’m terrified to publish
Oct 26, 2025
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She Is Here By My Side
The moment I realized I was already a serious person
Aug 17, 2025
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Write with Suleika Jaouad this Thursday
This is not a "New Year/New You" drill. Join us Thursday.
Jan 5
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What the Wolf Moon Woke
A poem for my brother Oscar, six years gone
Jan 3
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How We Become Who We Are
Delivering papers, delivering a ceremony, delivering graduates...receiving awe.
Dec 21, 2025
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Literary Gatherings and Kittens as Teachers
What I learned about home from writers, academia, and one very small cat
Sep 7, 2025
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Becoming the Kind of Woman Who Asks for Cake and Bakes a Branzino
A midlife education in asking for what you need
Aug 3, 2025
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Why I Want to Give More F-cks, Not Fewer
Redefining ambition at (almost) 51.
Jul 20, 2025
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Saying Grace Over It All
The beauty is the message
Jun 22, 2025
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Give Me the Streets of Manhattan
Portraits from the human wilderness
May 11, 2025
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A Wave and the Low Whistle of the Train
On learning to love the world
May 4, 2025
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The Em Dash—from Carla Zanoni
Poet and journalist writing literary memoir about immigrant inheritance, addiction, and integration — I am creating a post-shame world, one essay at a time.
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