Book Review | January 3, 1999
The Orchid Thief, By Susan Orlean, The New York Times Book Review, January 3, 1999
Article | July 1, 1997
On the Trail of Poppa’s Alaska
“Looking for Poppa’s Alaska,” Travel & Leisure, July, 1997.
Article | August 1, 1996
“Hacking” (about a hatchet murderer turned software entrepreneur), Wired, August, 1996; reprinted in Minnesota Monthly, in two parts, under “Making a Killing,” September and October, 1996. (Won Minnesota Press Association award for best feature writing, 1996).
Article | May 8, 1994
“Christy Picks a Mother,” New York Times Magazine, May 8, 1994.
Article | August 16, 1993
Trucking Through the AIDS Belt
“Trucking Through the AIDS Belt,” New Yorker, August 16, 1993, reprinted in Best American Essays 1994, ed. Kidder and Atwan (Houghton-Mifflin, 1995), and Literary Journalism, ed. Sims and Singer (Ballantine, 1995).