Essays

The Beauty of Imperfect Children’s Book Art
The New York Times (May 23, 2025)

Put Your Butt in the Chair: Inside the Simple Alchemy of Making Art

LitHub (April 22, 2025)

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)

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)