Interviews, Essays, and Articles
Reviews & Interviews
The Talking Stick
Kirkus Review
“A funny and occasionally touching novel about rebuilding your life after a crisis.”
Writers on the Net Reading
A Writing Room with Anne Lamott
Interview with Pop Roxx Radio
On YouTube with James Rosh
Catch the Story podcast
I read from The Talking Stick in the second half
Interview Mike Wagner Radio
on YouTube with Mike Wagner
Interview with Briggs on Books
on YouTube with Mike Briggs
Oblivioni.com Review
A review of The Talking Stick
There’s More Than One Way Home
Kirkus Review
A review of There’s More Than One Way Home
#ConversationsLive
My Interview with the awesome Cyrus Webb on #ConversationsLive
“Get The Funk Out”
Conversation with KUCI Host Janeane Bernstein on “Get the Funk Out,” November 26, 2018
He Could Be Another Bill Gates
Kirkus review
A review of He Could Be Another Bill Gates
Audere Magazine
I Speak with Audere, the Webzine of Chickadee Prince Books, on My Upcoming Novel, He Could Be Another Bill Gates
DifferentBrains.org
I Speak with Dr. Hackie Reitman of DifferentBrains.org
“I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.”
Ann Patchett
Essays and Articles
Interview with Lisa Haselton
May 28, 2024
The Phantom Paragrapher Guest Blog
May 26, 2024
Novel Kicks Interview
July 16, 2024
"The Suffering of Others Is Abstract, even in a Pandemic."
Audere Magazine, March 24, 2021
"The Smothers Brothers Paved the Way. It Led Them Off a Cliff."
Audere Magazine, June 20, 2021
"I Might Need This Someday."
Audere Magazine, July 17, 2020
"Apropos of Woody Allen."
Audere Magazine, April 19, 2020
“Author Donna Levin’s New Novel Encourages Advocacy & Empathy for Kids on the Autism Spectrum"
Fiction as advocacy for social change has a long and impressive history.
GirlTalkHQ, June 21, 2017
“7 Things To Say When a Friend’s Child is Diagnosed with Autism”
Kveller.com, May 24, 2017
Start with “Your son is the same kid he was last week.”
“The Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism” Has Some Interesting Things To Say About One Way Home
June 5, 2017
“If I’m Neurotypical, Can I Write About the Neuro-Diverse?”
Women Writers, Women’s Books, May 1, 2018
A writer needs to be able to imagine other lives.
A Mom, a Plane, and Passengers Who Don't Give a Sh*t
Audere Magazine, January 16, 2020
Eine Frau in Berlin
Audere Magazine, July 20, 2019
The Vocabulary of the Future
Audere Magazine, November 17, 2019
They say that "most of writing is rewriting."
That’s an understatement. Women Writers, Women’s Books, March 3, 2020
The time I met Joe Biden
Audere Magazine, November 11, 2020
Confessions of an Unrecovered Hoarder
Audere Magazine July 17, 2020
Hogan's Heroes--Too Soon?
Audere Magazine, February 15, 2020
Steely Dan Fan
Audere Magazine April 23, 2019
Buenos Dias, Por Favor
Audere Magazine January 26, 2019
Interview with Deborah Kalb
Deborah Kalb’s blog, July 27, 2024
“Why Your Next Favorite Fictional Protagonist May Be on the Autism Spectrum”
Smithsonian Magazine, May 24, 2017
Was Mr. Darcy on the autism spectrum?
Good News for Modern Woman
Audere Magazine, November 29, 2019
Going Postal
Audere Magazine November 10, 2018
"Here Comes Company Is a Peak Experience."
Audere Magazine, May 8, 2022
"Cyrano-No-No."
Audere Magazine, March 3, 2022
"As We See It (but Don't See It)."
Audere Magazine, March 25, 2022
"The Tragedy of my Grandmother, the Rabbi's Wife."
JWeekly.com, March 8, 2019
"We're Doomed as a Species."
Audere Magazine, September 1, 2022
Rest Well, Mr. Sondheim
Audere Magazine, December 13, 2021
Brigadoon has some lovely music. Don't think too hard about the premise.
Audere Magazine, January 9, 2021
4 Essential Steps for Making Your Protagonist Real, Even When They’re Nothing Like You
WritersDigest.com, November 19, 2018
“The Hard Art of Balancing Writing with Raising an Autistic Child”
LitHub, October 18, 2018
“The Professor of Mean”
Women Writers, Women’s Books, November 4, 2018
“8 Things I’d Like My Readers to Know About Me”
Female First, October 16, 2018
“My Secret Is My Community of Female Writers”
GirlTalkHQ, October 18, 2018
“No, Working from Home Isn’t the Perfect Working Mom Hack–But It’s Still Pretty Sweet”
Working Mother Magazine, October 8, 2018
The Madwoman in the Attic
C’est Moi
“Your work is so meaningless, so fully for yourself alone, that no one cares whether you do it well. Or ever.”
Annie Dilliard