"Murphy Balcony"
Ideas issue of the New York Times Magazine, December 2007
"Braille Tattoo"
Ideas issue of the New York Times Magazine, December 2007
"Arnold Odermatt: On Duty"
The Believer, December/January 2007 (about a Swiss police officer who photographed car accidents on the roads of Niwalden Canton for 40 years)
"Air-Index Impressionism"
Ideas issue of the New York Times Magazine, December 2006
"The Comb That Listens"
Ideas issue of the New York Times Magazine, December 2006
"Our Weird Uncle Eakins"
"Did the greatest American artist of the nineteenth century drink too much milk?" The Believer, December 2005/January 2006
"Trust Spray" and "The False-Memory Diet,"
Ideas issue of the New York Times Magazine, December 2005
"One of the Tricks That Women Have Played on Their Husbands,"
(a free adaptation of a tale from
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, born 1313, died 1375)
Voodoo Heart: Stories
by Scott Snyder, The Believer, June 2006
The Dead Fish Museum
by Charles D'Ambrosio, The Believer, May 2006
“Questions For Jhumpa Lahiri”
The New York Times Magazine, September 2003 (Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake)
“Oldest Living Surrealist Tells All: A Conversation With Dorothea Tanning”
Salon.com, February 2002 (core member of Surrealist movement, painter, poet, wife of Max Ernst and author of
Between Lives: An Artist and Her World)
A Supposedly True Thing or Two: An Interview with David Foster Wallace
Time Out New York, January 1997 (on publicaton of A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again)
