Other Writing

The latest:

The New York Times Book Review: A review of the new memoir by Rob Delaney, which explores the actor’s shattering experience of losing his two-year-old son, Henry, to brain cancer. “A Heart That Works may be a tribute to a lost son and the family who survives him; it may be a hand outstretched to bereaved parents who feel alone on their planet of grief; but most of all, it is a hopeful plea to people everywhere to make choices, large and small, guided by love. What a world it would be if we did.”
– Book Review: A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney

The Washington Post: An excerpt from Bomb Shelter, depicting the before-and-after moment when a mother finds her son unconscious and calls for help. After a close call comes within a breath of taking what we love the most, can we ever be the same — or is everything changed?
– The Night Time Stopped

The Atlantic: An adapted excerpt from Bomb Shelter, telling a surprising story and contemplating the fact that while we can’t protect our loved ones forever, love is never futile. “The extraordinary doesn’t wipe out the ordinary. People get married in wartime. Babies are born during pandemics. My mom drew water for my bath and flung wet clothes into the dryer and taught me to tie my shoes while my father did test runs for the end of the world.” – The Most Haunting Truth of Parenthood

PARADE Profile: Dolly Parton & James Patterson A conversation with a pair of legends, both at the top of their game. “What’s clear from their camaraderie is that something even bigger than a book with its own soundtrack has emerged from their collaboration: a genuine friendship. While they may be mismatched in height and glamour (no offense at all to Patterson, but who could possibly sparkle at comparable wattage to Dolly Parton?), these two highly uncommon figures have found they have a great deal in common.”

The Washington Post: On graduations, vaccinations, publications… and the exhilarating, heartbreaking forward march of time. “So much of life — creating, parenting, aging — is getting used to one phase just in time for it to end, then stumbling forward to the next one. A new stage may feel exciting at the same time it feels unsteady. Like flying, but also like falling. Like exposure. But when it’s time, it’s time. You can’t go back.”
— As the World Opens Up, It’s Tough to Let Go