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Read an excerpt from We Want So Much To Be Ourselves in Harper's Magazine
The Interpretation of Dreams
"It is 1924. Gunter Zeitz is thirty-three years old. His hair is black, unruly. And, in the manner of certain very tall men, he habitually hunches his shoulders and lets his head hang forward. He is standing on a street corner in Vienna, where he has just bid good day to Professor Freud and introduced himself...."
Interview on We Want So Much To Be Ourselves in Interlocutor Magazine
Complicity, Resistance & Love In the Face of Evil
"It was only once Trump was actually in office that I began to think about the deeply disturbing parallels between his policies and those of Hitler, although, even then, I didn't think of my story as primarily a critique of Trump's brand of fascism..."
Opening excerpt from the forthcoming novel We Want So Much To Be Ourselves in Conjunctions
Nothing Is Really What It Is
"The world makes little sense, which is to say that it constantly exceeds understanding. Günter Zeitz is two, sitting on his bedroom floor, pushing his red and yellow wooden horse across the rug. A woman steps through the door. She is his mother—although her hair is pulled back so tightly from her face it looks as if it hurts. Also, there is a ball, dark brown like her hair, stuck to the top of her head. So maybe she is not his mother. Maybe he has made a mistake..."