Awards/Mentions | Interviews | Other Writing
AWARDS/MENTIONS
NEH Public Scholar Award 2017
Daughters of the Samurai
New York Times Notable Book 2015
Buzzfeed Best Nonfiction of 2015
Seattle Times Best Books 2015
Booklist Top 10 Multicultural Nonfiction
INTERVIEWS
Radio and Podcasts:
Japan Station Podcast, July 2019
Meiji at 150 Podcast, January 2019
WritersCast, October 2015
KALW San Francisco, July 2015
Modern Notion, July 2015
The Diane Rehm Show, WAMU, July 2015
The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC, July 2015
Video:
“The Value of Writing Our Way Through a Tumultuous 2020,” PBS NewsHour/IMHO, November 2020
STEM Girls Virtual, Cincinnati Museum Center, July 2020
“Sister Doctors in a Time of Need: Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell and the Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children on Bleecker Street,” illustrated talk for Village Preservation, April 2020
GCTV Greenwich, full-length footage of talk to the Retired Men’s Association, July 2016
CSPAN BookTV, June 2015
KATU Portland AM Northwest, June 2015
Print/Online:
Publishers Weekly, PW Talks…, September 2020
Publishers Weekly, Open Book, August 2020
Washington Independent Review of Books, May 2016
Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb, August 2015
The Tropicalist (formerly Daily Samsara), June 2015
Japan Times, May 2015
Wall Street Journal/Speakeasy, May 2015
OTHER WRITING
Essays:
“Wingtips and Shell-Toes,” The Rumpus, November 10, 2020
“Falling in Love with a Second Story,” Publishers Weekly, December 2, 2017
“Meet the Blackwells,” Schlesinger Library Newsletter, Fall 2016
“Citizen of the Twitterverse,” Medium, October 1, 2016
“History Never Ends, It Just Gets Retold,” Literary Hub, May 17, 2016
“Under No Certain Search Terms,” New York Times Book Review, January 22, 2016
“Letters to the Future,” Medium, 2015
“You’re Raising Your Kids Bilingual, Right? Well no…” Salon, 2015
“Watching for the Buffleheads,” The Morning News, 2011
“The Broccoli that Fell from the Sky,” The Morning News, 2010
“Remember the General Slocum,” The Morning News, 2010
“Persephone in the Park,” The Morning News, 2010
“Field Notes from 89th Street,” The Morning News, 2010
“Mother of Two” in Only Child: Writers on the Singular Joys and Solitary Sorrows of Growing Up Solo, Deborah Siegel & Daphne Uviller, eds, 2006
Recent Reviews:
“Sherri L. Smith’s YA Novel Began With a Photograph” (author interview), Kirkus Reviews, February 12, 2020
“Spirit Animals” (Christine Wunnicke’s The Fox and Dr. Shimamura), New York Times Book Review, May 31, 2019
“An American in Japan, Leading a Zen Koan of a Life” (Tracy Franz’s My Year of Dirt and Water), New York Times Book Review, August 16, 2018
“Fiction from Japan, for the Old World and the New” (Shortlist), New York Times Book Review, August 11, 2017
“In War’s Wake” (Lynne Kutsukake’s The Translation of Love), New York Times Book Review, April 17, 2016
“Prologue to an End” (Kenzaburo Oe’s Death by Water), New York Times Book Review, October 3, 2015
“Dear Betrayer” (Yasushi Inoue’s novellas), New York Times Book Review, April 4, 2015
