Work Samples
3 books coming from Troy native
Interview with Richard Selzer
Albany Times Union, August 23, 2009
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The Farmers and the Chef
Interview with the Beekman Street Bistro’s Tim Meaney
Metroland, 2009
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Goodbye, Tomatoes
Metroland, 2009
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Op-ed column: Putting the city back together
The Daily Gazette, March 22, 2009
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Everything Old is new again
Metroland, 2009
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To Sleep or Not to Sleep
Metroland, 2009
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Personal Touches
Metroland, 2009
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Here’s to Equal Rights for All
Albany Times-Union, March 2, 2009
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Taking ‘Liberty’
Former Troy church memorialized by an inflatable artwork
Albany Times-Union, May 25, 2008
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‘Secret Language’ explores slang’s Irish roots
Albany Times-Union, March 16, 2008
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Development in Troy still a guessing game
Albany Times-Union, February 28, 2008
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Critic explains ‘How Fiction Works’
Albany Times-Union, February 24, 2008
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Let Us Eat Cake
Delicious City, Winter 2008
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For You, My Sweet
From oysters and lamb testicles to cream puffs and spun sugar, the evolution of cakes as a symbol of wedded bliss
Metroland, 2008
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How I Learned to Love the Egg
Delicious City
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Hot Dog Cult
Famous Lunch has been buying locally since 1932
Delicious City, November 1, 2007
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Thinking Outside the Package
The surreptitious joys of nonmaterial giving for the anti-consumer
Metroland, 2007
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What Are You Like? by Anne Enright (Review)
Raintaxi, Winter 2000-2001
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Going to the Well
Bringing a Literary Classic to the Screen
Seattle Weekly, October 7, 1998
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The Thrift Shift
Seattle Weekly, April 8, 1998
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Poet Ron Koertge’s Absurd Divination
Hot Ink, July 30, 1997
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An Interview with Candace Fleming
Mom Writer’s Literary Magazine
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