I've contributed pieces and short stories to a variety of collections, including Christmas Cats (Chamberlain Bros.), Cat Women: Female Writers on Their Feline Friends (Seal Press), and For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance (Seal Press). My short mystery, “Dumb Beasts,” will appear in Deadfall: Crime Stories by New England Writers (Level Best Books, Nov. 2008). Although many of my journalism pieces are only available through the pay-per-view archives of the original publications, here are a sample of articles:
With friends like these...: A writeup of the online Readerville community (for The New York Times)
Cat Burgler: Or why cat hoarder Heidi Erickson will probably hoard again (for the Boston Phoenix)
Eat This Song: The first time I heard the band X (for Salon.com)
A profile of media critic Jean Kilbourne (for Ms. magazine)
Girl Power: The fine art of remaining a feminist - and not having to kill the spiders (for the Boston Phoenix)
Animal Magnetism, or why we love the pets we do (for the Boston Phoenix)
Found in Translation: A review of Dubravka Ugresic's spot-on skewering of the publishing industry (for the Boston Phoenix)
The Web Catches and Reshapes Radio: A primer on Internet radio (for the New York Times)
The hunter becomes the hunted: My review of David Quammen's great Monsters of God. (for the San Francisco Chronicle)
Parenting Passages: When adult children care for their elders (for Harvard Magazine)