SELECTED Essays and Satire
The New York Times: "The Unbearable Lightness of Dating with Cancer" (Click here for PDF)
The Hollywood Reporter: "Cancer, Cosmos and Courage: How a ‘Sex and the City’ Star Taught Me to Laugh at Death."
The Laydown Diaries with Ann Patchett: March 3rd.
AARP Magazine: "I Want to Believe!"
Hadassah Magazine: "A Reluctant Angel: Finding my Wings, and Purpose, as a Cancer Mentor."
Alta Journal: "14 New March Books"
New Yorker: Letters
Boston Globe: Ideas: "To Pebble or Not to Pebble, That is the Question."
Washington Post: "Well: My Ketamine Diaries"
The New Yorker, Shouts and Murmurs: Surprise! You're Now Subscribed to My Substack!
The Oncologist Journal: On the Desire for Sexual Healing
Washington Post: Book review: Every Lawmaker Who Wants to Ban Drag Should Read This History
Book review of Glitter and Concrete by Elyssa Maxx Goodman
Washington Post Op-Ed: Tackling Cancer While Battling the Insurance System
Washington Post Op-Ed: The End of My Life was Killing Me
Hadassah Magazine feature: What it Means to Welcome Strangers into Your Home
The Coronavirus Saved My Life. If I hadn’t gone in for a test, I wouldn’t have learned I had stage four metastatic lung cancer. I guess that’s a perverse kind of luck
Los Angeles Magazine feature: The Belle of the Matzo Ball
Los Angeles Times Op-Ed: They were Homeless I Took Them In
Los Angeles Magazine: A Zoom Writers' Room Saved My Sanity (sort of) During Quarantine
Los Angeles Magazine: Let Us Now Praise Adam Driver's Face
New York Times: Back to School with Narrow Escapes and a Mother's Love
Wall Street Journal: Cremation Nation: Our New Way to Go op-ed
The New Yorker Daily Shouts: The book that I haven't started writing yet will be the best book ever!
New York Observer: Mark Zuckerberg is Not a Bot!
Wall Street Journal: I'm Ready for My Wide Shot: on gender equality in film op-ed
Los Angeles Times feature: On family, the one you're born with, and the one on your book cover Essay
The New York Times Op-Ed: Why I Am Not Marching In A Pink Hat Op-Ed
The New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs: Please Unsubscribe
The New York Times Op-Ed: Death With No Dignity Op-Ed
The New York Times Op-Ed: The Treasure In A Small Package
The Los Angeles Times Op-Ed: Part 'none' Part Jewish and Leary about Anti-Semitism in Europe Op-Ed
Oprah.com: Best Friend Break Up - O Inspiration