What We Talk About When We Talk About What We Talk About: An Incomplete List of What New York Has Been Talking About When It Is Talking

What We Talk About When We Talk About Lust (The New York Times, Aug. 1998)

What We Talk About When We Talk About Doughnuts (The New Yorker, May 1999)

What We Talk About When We Talk About Editing (The New York Times, July 2005)

What We Talk About When We Talk About Art (The New York Times, Dec. 2007)

What We Talk About When We Talk About Swimming (The New York Times, Aug. 2008)

What We Talk About When We Talk About Sarah Palin (The New York Times, Oct. 2008)

What We Talk About When We Talk About Chickens (The New Yorker, April 2010)

What We Talk About When We Talk About Men Not Reading (The New Yorker, Sept. 2010)

What We Talk About When We Talk About 9/11 (Gawker, Sept. 2011)

What We Talk About When We Talk About Startups, Depression, and Michael Arrington’s Blinders (New York Observer, Nov. 2011

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (The New Yorker, Dec. 2011)

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