Writings

Essays 

“Sheltering-in-Place: Ima’s Point of View” — essay published in Oy!Chicago

“When ‘Great Gatsby’s Meyer Wolfsheim is the Only Jewish Character You Know,” published in The Forward (July 11, 2016)

“American Jewish Women Poets,” published as a four-part series in Green Mountains Review (October – November 2013):

Interviews

The Good Life Review Podcast Episode 1.6: Jamie Wendt

Interview: Jamie Wendt with Midwestern Gothic (2018)

“Fairy-Tale Logic: A Conversation with Alice Hoffman” — Jewish Book Council

Claude and Marcel: A Conversation with Rupert Thomson Jewish Book Council

Interview with Fredric Price, from Fig Tree Books

Book Reviews

Crow Funeral by Kate Hanson Foster

The Daughter of Auschwitz by Tova Friedman

Departure Stories: Betty Crocker Made Matzo Balls (and other lies) by Elisa Bernick

Out of Nowhere by Susan Comninos

The Discarded Life by Adam Kirsch

Atomic Anna by Rachel Barenbaum

Golem Girl by Riva Lehrer

I Had a Brother Once: A Memoir, A Poem by Adam Mansbach

Asylum: a personal, historical, natural inquiry in 103 lyric sections by Jill Bialosky

The Lamps of History by Michael Sandler

Atomizer by Elizabeth Powell

I Wish My Father by Leslea Newman

Full and Plum-Colored Velvet by Anne Graue

Spilt Milk by Courtney Zoffness

The Minor Virtues by Lynn Levin

Don’t Touch the Bones by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach 

Roundabout: Poems by Amy M. Clark

The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman

Concerning the Holy Ghost’s Interpretation of J. Crew Catalogues by Elizabeth A. I. Powell

Deviation by Luce D’Eramo

Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson

Motherhood Reimagined: When Becoming a Mother Doesn’t Go as Planned by Sarah Kowalski

Unbound: Finding Freedom from Unrealistic Expectations of Motherhood by Jamie Sumner

Life as It by Daneen Wardrop

The Book of Norman: A Novel by Allan Appel 

Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter: Or Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances by Elizabeth A.I. Powell

Carry Me by Peter Behrens

Unspeakable Things by Kathleen Spivak

In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume

Esther: A Novel by Rebecca Kanner

Prayers for the Living by Alan Cheuse

Last Word by Jonathan Blum

My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff 

On Bittersweet Place by Ronna Wineberg

Aaron’s Leap by Magdaléna Platzová 

A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee’s Guide to Saving the World: A Novel by Rachel Cantor