SELECTED ESSAYS
2015
“Still, God Helps You: Memories of a Sudanese Child Slave”
Ulyces, Paris
February 2015
“On Bibliomancy, Anthropodermic Bibliopegy, and the Eating Papers; or, Proust’s Porridge”
Conjunctions Magazine
“Notable Essay” Best American Essays 2015
read
“The Allure of the Extreme”
Blog essay for PBS’s American Experience documentary, Robert Ripley: Believe It or Not!
January 6, 2015
2014
Circle of Friends: A Writer’s Soul-Searching Pilgrimage to Ethiopia’s Omo River Valley.
(With photography by Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher)
Arrive: The Magazine for Northeast Business Travelers
July/August 2014
2013
“Still God Helps You: Memories of a Sudanese Child Slave”
Wilson Quarterly
Summer 2013
read
watch
2011
“Puppy Love: My Dachshund, My Dear”
O, the Oprah Magazine
July 2011
read
2010
“Finding Ashton”
O, The Oprah Magazine
May 2010
read