Select Essays, Broadcasts and Musings...


New York Times

“There’s No Roadmap for Going Gray and staying Gay”

New York Times

“I Did a Terrible Thing. How Can I Apologize?”

New York Times

"Modern Love: Just Holding On Through the Curves”

Off Assignment

“Letter to a Stranger: To the Accomplice in the Crime Against Me”

Public Books

“Fostered Alike by Beauty and Fear”

Ms. Magazine

"My Own True Mother’s Day”

Marie Claire

“The Breast Cancer Club”

The Guardian

"My transgender novel is too personal to be propaganda”

This American Life

“Family Physics: Occam’s Razor”

This American Life

“Living the Dream: Girls, Girls Girls”

Document Journal

“The Secret World of the MacDowell Colony”