Books & writing

  • Leading Men

    Leading Men

    • 2019
    • Viking
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  • The Art of Perspective: Who Tells the Story

    The Art of Perspective: Who Tells the Story

  • The Living

    The Living

    • 2013
    • Ploughshares/Emerson College
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  • All This Talk of Love

    All This Talk of Love

  • The Saint of Lost Things

    The Saint of Lost Things

    • 2005
    • Algonquin (Hardcover), Berkeley (Paperback)
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  • A Kiss from Maddalena

    A Kiss from Maddalena

    • 2003
    • Algonquin (Hardcover), Berkeley (Paperback)
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Short fiction

Anthologies & Selected Essays

  • “Reading Fiction Helped My Italian Mother Overcome the Grief of Losing My Father”, in Oprah Magazine, March 2020
  • “On The Universal Urgency of Immigrant Literature”, in LitHub, October 2019
  • “Who Gets To Tell Your Story?” in The New Republic, January 2016
  • “Coming of Age at Bread Loaf” in Mentors, Muses & Monsters, Elizabeth Benedict, ed., 2012 Excelsior Editions.
  • “First and Last” in Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer, Bret Anthony Johnston, ed., 2008 Random House.
  • “Soundtracking Your Story” in Now Write! Fiction Writing Exercises from Today’s Best Writers and Teachers, Sherry Ellis, ed., 2006 Tarcher Books.