Essays

Sketchbooks and essays that have appeared in the sports section of The New York Times:

A Quiet Reply to a Life Cut Short: After a Profound Loss, How to Honor the Dead
LitHub (May 2, 2022)

Was There Joy in East Rutherford?
The New York Times (Jan. 11, 2022)

Running Toward a New World.
The New York Times (Apr. 20, 2020)

The Winter Surfers of Rockaway Beach.
The New York Times (Feb. 22, 2020)

A Day in the Life of Court 15.
The New York Times (Sept. 1, 2018)

Gentlemen, Start Your Tugboats.
The New York Times (Sept. 6, 2017)

Somewhere, Under There, Is a Dog.
The New York Times (Feb. 14, 2017)

Backstage at ‘The Nutcracker’.
The New York Times (Jan. 1, 2016)

Other essays:

Paper Chase.
Publishers Weekly (April 2021)

How imagination begins.
Yale Alumni Magazine (Sept./Oct. 2020)

ART in PLACE: Social Distancing in the Studio.
The Eric Carle Museum

The Case for River.
Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast (Oct. 19, 2020)

The Life Cycle of a Book.
Publishers Weekly (Oct. 17, 2017)

The Ignominy of Aston Villa.
The Wall Street Journal (Feb. 18, 2016)

Reading in the Shadow of Sendak.
Read Brightly

A Terrifically Bad Idea.
The Morning News (Jun. 9, 2009)