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OBJECT PARADE: COFFEE TABLE By Dinah Lenney featured on Superstion Review — Built, so goes the story -- so says Fred, my husband -- in some remote corner of Vermont, with instructions to make it solid enough for a woman to...[Full Text] |
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SOMETHING FOR NOTHING By Dinah Lenney featured on Defunct.com — PEOPLE ARE SO fundamentally hopeful, aren’t they, and all the time looking for signs. You meet the one–the fact that your parents...[Full Text] |
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'MAKING TOAST: A Family Story' by Roger Rosenblatt Book Review, Los Angeles Times | Article Collection — On Dec. 8, 2007, the day that Amy Rosenblatt Solomon collapsed on the treadmill and died, her parents, Roger and Ginny Rosenblatt... [Full Text] |
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THIS SPOON The Coachella Review — This spoon, flattened, not a spoon at all, couldn’t spoon anything, no, it’s a fossil, an effigy, a spoon for a paper doll... [Full Text] By Dinah Lenney Winter 2010 |
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ARTS & CULTURE 'Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession' by Julie Powell The author of "Julie and Julia" returns with a memoir that combines foodie interests and troubled personal relationships.... [Full Text] By Dinah Lenney November 29, 2009 |
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ARTS & CULTURE 'The Writer's Life' Amy Gerstler's message: Be not afraid The poet wishes more people would realize that her medium doesn't hurt. At all.... [Full Text] By Dinah Lenney September 27, 2009 |
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BOOK REVIEW 'Nothing Was the Same' by Kay Redfield Jamison The writer's long struggles with depression give extra weight to her memoir on grief... [Full Text] By Dinah Lenney September 18, 2009 |
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OFF THE SHELF How I inhabit the Earth To the fervent reader and writer, the words on a page encompass the whole wide world and their place in it. [Full Text] |
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Object Parade: Little Black Dress Should you pack the dress? The little black dress? A sleeveless shift, darts at the bust, comes to just above the knee |
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BOOK REVIEW 'Closing Time' by Joe Queenan A memoir of growing up in extremely difficult circumstances in the City of Brotherly Love. [Full Text] By Dinah Lenney April 15, 2009 |
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Essays coming soon in AGNI |
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and WATER~STONE |
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Also in Brevity |
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OPINION 'ER' and the end of Nurse Shirley An actress' postmortem on her character in the long-running TV series... [Full Text] By Dinah Lenney April 2, 2009 |
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BOOK REVIEW 'So Long at the Fair: A Novel' by Christina Schwarzs Count on Christina Schwarz to tackle the ties that bind -- family, friendship, marriage... [Full Text] By Dinah Lenney July 14, 2008 |
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OPINION The graduate, hovering 'Enjoy the ride,' the parents' card says, as the daughter readies for a life 3,000 miles away. By Dinah Lenney July 1, 2008 [Full Text] |
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BOOK REVIEW 'Assisted Loving' by Bob Morris After his mother's death, the author helps his 80yr-old father to find a companion. Dating isn't easy for Dad. By Dinah Lenney, Special to The Times June 3, 2008 [Full Text] |
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BOOK REVIEW 'The Lyncher in Me' by Warren Read A man's search for his family's history turns up a vengeful ancestor. By Dinah Lenney, Special to The Times March 18, 2008 [Full Text] |
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BOOK REVIEW 'Dough: A Memoir' by Mort Zachter Remembering a lifetime of hard work in the family bakery... Special to The Times - November 3, 2007 [Full Text] |
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LA's area code obsession Published in Los Angeles Times Print Edition : Opinion October 7th 2007 [Full Text] |
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'The Fires' by Alan Cheuse Special to The Times September 1, 2007 [Full Text] |
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Ghost in the Dream Published in The New York Times - Magazine Feb, 18th 2007 [Full Text] |
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Life Skills, LAUSD Style Published in LA Times - Opinion Jan 2007 [Full Text] |
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Deal Published in AGNI September 2006 [Full Text] |
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Signs Pubished in Get On The Bus City Space, San Francisco 2006 [Full Text] |
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To De-Bag or Not Published in LA Times July 2005 [Full Text] |