Other Work

“Foster Care: Extreme Edition”
Curtis writes about innovations in foster care for Time

“I Still Love Obama. Love. Love. Love.”
Curtis writes about still, as of November 2010, being “in the tank” for Obama for Slate

“‘Freedom’ by Jonathan Franzen”
Curtis reviews Jonathan Franzen’s “Freedom” for the UK’s Guardian

“The Art of the Confession”
Curtis fannishly interviews writers Emily Gould and Meghan Daum for New York Magazine

“Eat, Pray, Marry”
Curtis reviews Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Committed” for The New York Times

“The Perils of Literary Success”
An essay for The Atlantic about having a bestselling first novel

“You Hate Me, You Really Hate Me”
An essay for The New York Times about visiting book clubs

“You Can’t Get a Man With a Pen”
An essay for The New York Times about literary groupies

“I Was Sylvia Plath-ish”
An essay for The New York Observer about Curtis’s angsty adolescence

“And On the Eighth Day, God Created Tartar Sauce” (Act 4)
A piece for This American Life about the Mobile Bay, Alabama, oceanic event known as Jubilee

“What Daddy Wants” (Act 5)
A piece for This American Life about family and diets

“Divorce on the D-List”
A Salon essay about Curtis’s sorrow at Kathy Griffin’s divorce

“Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Deviled Eggs”
A Salon article about Trisha Yearwood’s Southern fried cookbook

“Traumas in adolescent life”
A Salon essay about judging Seventeen magazine fiction contest in 1999

“Why ‘Dirty Dancing’ is the best girl movie ever’
A Salon essay about the unparalleled excellence of “Dirty Dancing”

“The whole world in her home”
A Salon interview with Melissa Fay Greene about Ethiopian adoption

“Why I love Laura Bush”
A Salon essay Curtis wrote before American Wife was a twinkle in her eye

“A Regular Couple”
A short story about a couple on their honeymoon (available for the Kindle only)

“Volunteers Are Shining Stars”
A short story about a volunteer at a homeless shelter; it appeared on FiveChapters.com and in the anthology This Is Not Chick Lit

“All Along, This Was What Was Supposed to Happen”
A short story commissioned by Slate to celebrate President Obama’s inauguration