writer.author.journalist

Never Tell Our Business to Strangers, A Memoir, published by Villard/Random House, 2010

My Parents Were Awesome: Before Fanny Packs and Minivans, They Were People Too, edited by Eliot Glazer. Villard paperback, 2011. Second essay, “Johnny and Eleanor.”

Henry the Gangster Cat, a tumblr chronicling my adventures raising a kitten named after a drug-dealing Goodfella.

Mini-Manufacturing and the City, The American Prospect, print edition, Dec. 2011

Can You Hear Justice Now? The American Prospect, July 8, 2011

Came As She Was, The American Prospect, July 29, 2011

 

The New York Times

TimesCast: 100 Years of the Neediest Cases, The New York Times, Nov. 25, 2011

From a Community Center, Hope and a Holiday Meal, The New York Times, Nov. 24, 2011

Born of Pirate Radio, Seeking a Spot on British Dial, The New York Times, April 4, 2011

Charlie Sheen Helps Make a Name for Ustream,The New York Times, March 14, 2011

A Web Site That’s Not Afraid to Pick a Fight, The New York Times, July 12, 2010

Sergeant Guzman’s War, The New York Times, Oct. 30. 2005

The Perpetual Protester, The New York Times, Feb. 27, 2009

Double Take in the Dairy Aisle, The New York Times, May 15, 2009

Tempo Alfresco After Dark, in the Park, The New York Times, July 3, 2009

Few Laughs Left in a Catskill Town Struggling to Revive, The New York Times, December 19, 2009

Local Stop: True to Its Savory Roots,The New York Times, February 21, 2010

A Memorial for a Man Who Lifted Souls With Song, The New York Times, May 2, 2009

It’s No Hallucination: Polka-Dot Buses Aim to Cut Travel Time, The New York Times, May 15, 2008

Local Stop: Beneath the Big Soda Bottle, The New York Times, September 24, 2009

Graphic: How Electric Cars Stack Up, The New York Times, July 5, 2011

Timeline of the Standard American Diet, The New York Times, July 23, 2011

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Immokalee, Fla., The New York Times, June 15, 2011

Animals, Cruelty and Videotape, The New York Times, April 27, 2011

Nocturnalist, The New York Times, contributor, 2011. (1st item, 3rd item, 2nd item, 3rd item, 3rd item, 2nd item)

 

The Neediest Cases

At 102, Outliving Friends, Family and Her Savings, The New York Times, Nov. 6, 2010

Raising a 3-Year-Old Who Had a Rough Start, The New York Times, Dec. 17, 2011

After Daughter’s Death, Helping Others Cope With Dying, The New York Times, Dec. 2, 2010

Recycling, as a Means to Survive, The New York Times, Dec. 16, 2010

Sibling Bond Strengthens Amid the Ordeal of Cancer, The New York Times, Nov. 8, 2010

Surrounded by Cancer, and Then Needing Help Herself, The New York Times, Jan. 13, 2011

After a Tragedy Next Door, Scars on Nearby Children, The New York Times, Nov. 15, 2010

A Husband’s Chronic Illness Changes a Couple’s Life, The New York Times, Nov. 21, 2010

Losing a Leg, but Keeping His Drive to Succeed, The New York Times, Nov. 22, 2010

A Couple Joined by Cancer, Bound by Love,The New York Times, Dec. 14, 2010

Putting Down Textbooks to Provide for Triplets, The New York Times, Nov. 27, 2010

Surviving the Camps but Struggling in Brooklyn, The New York Times, January 21, 2010

Call From Haiti Heartens Struggling Father, The New York Times, Jan. 18, 2010

Wrestling His Demons to Release the Artist Within, The New York Times, December 12, 2009

With a New Computer, More Verses in a Lifetime of Writing, The New York Times, December 30, 2009

Two Heart Surgeries Strain a Couple’s Finances, but Not Their Bond, The New York Times, November 20, 2009

A Shut-In Surrounded by Bits of the Outside World,The New York Times, November 11, 2008

After Life of Surgeries, Hope for One Final Operation, The New York Times, December 6, 2009

After a Daughter’s Death, Seeking Answers and the Strength to Go On, The New York Times, Nov. 28, 2006

Many Moves With Children in Tow, and Then a Fire, The New York Times, January 21, 2010