New York Times, Jan 7 2016
Greta Gerwig, director of Barbie, reads my essay for the New York Times “Modern Love” podcast series.
LISTEN: https://www.wbur.org/modernlove/2017/12/27/sharing-cab-toes-gerwig-modern-love
Illustration by Brian Rhea
New York Times, March 21 2013
I pay $189 a month ($2,268 a year) for my Single Girl’s Starter Kit. My Single Girl’s Starter Kit is a storage facility I keep in Brooklyn. I recently moved in with my boyfriend of seven years. Giving up my low-rent apartment in Park Slope is as serious a commitment as I’ve ever made to any human being.
Smithsonian, October 2011
I just flunked my bank’s identity test. You know, the one that interrogates you about your life. I failed to identify my favorite cousin, former address and the name of my maternal grandfather. I’m sure that the person monitoring my efforts thought I was either an identity thief or a complete imbecile…
Salon, Feb 15 2011
I was left home alone with the food. It was the first thing I noticed about being out of work — the dominating availability of food. There was no daily structure upon which to hang a meal. No “lunch hour” to confine the act of eating sandwiches to a fixed point in time. No “coffee break” to separate the time of eating chocolate from the time of not eating chocolate. None of that…
julia anne miller 