Publications by Dinah Lenney

	The Ones THAT GET AWAY A long list, a category unto itself, an album of if-onlys— And I don’t mean all the ones I’ve taken that just don’t work because too close, too far, too fuzzy, too something (or else not enough)— It’s the ones I don’t (didn’t) take at all. [ Visit COMP Journal ]
	Brevity’s New Issue & Expanded Teaching Resources Brevity’s 67th issue launches this morning, with startling flash essays from Beth Ann Fennelly, David Mura, Irina Dumitrescu, Abigail Thomas, Bret Lott, Elizabeth Dodd, Pam Durban, Amy Monticello, Carrie Jade Williams, Cameron Steele, Joe Plicka. Yi Shun Lai, Sabrina Hicks, Sarah Ebba Hansen, and L.I. Henley, and stunning photos from essayist Dinah Lenney.
	Bulletproof Coffee to Bulletproof Vest: An Object Lessons Interview As contributors to the Object Lessons series from Bloomsbury, Dinah Lenney and Kenneth R. Rosen each chose to investigate the deeper meaning and implication of a thing they encounter with some frequency—Dinah as a writer of memoir and personal essay, Ken as a war correspondent.
	How We Are By Dinah Lenney • Jun 18, 2020 How am I. Having just this morning broken up the puzzle on the kitchen table (Seurat’s “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte”), I am wondering which one to do next, which picture to live with for however long it lasts (the puzzle, the pandemic
	I Can’t Stop Buying Coffee Scoops By Dinah Lenney • April 15, 2020
	Altered States by Dinah Lenney • April 12, 2020
	The Deep Metaphorical Power of a Good Cup of Coffee Coffee, Aging, and Changing Tastes by Dinah Lenney • March 19, 2020
	Coffee and Catastrophe by Dinah Lenney • February 21, 2020
	WriteGirl Has My Heart: A Conversation with Keren Taylor by Dinah Lenney • January 16, 2020
	Craft Essay THE LATEST DRAFT by Dinah Lenney • September 13, 2019
	The Problem of the Now: A Conversation with Sally Ashton Dinah Lenney interviews Sally Ashton [Read on this site]
	Once Upon a Time in Los Angeles: Kathryn Harrison’s “On Sunset” by Dinah Lenney
	A Cry in the Dark: Dinah Lenney Interviews David L. Ulin
	The New Ohio Review Fall Issue #22 Dinah Lenney On Natalia Ginzburg's "Human Relations" [pdf]
	Where Are They? Where Do They Go? Summer 2019, Jamie Smyth and Dinah Lenney
	LARB A Longer Reach: Thanksgiving 2016 November 26, 2016, by Dinah Lenney
	the Paris Review Jar Watch October 14, 2016, Dinah Lenney
	Superstition Review This and That September 03, 2016, Dinah Lenney [Read This and That on this site]
	Limits by Dinah Lenney This month we're delighted to present a talk about turning life into art and an essay that turns life into art by the wonderful Dinah Lenney.
	LARB Winter 2015 August 5, 2015, Dinah Lenney on H Is for Hawk
	LARB Digital Edition: Memoir [Kindle Edition] Dinah Lenney (Author, Editor)
	LARB Quarterly Journal Winter 2015 March 3, 2015 by Tom Lutz (Editor)
	DL interviews Meghan Daum I'VE BEEN SCROLLING through some of the praise for Meghan Daum’s new collection of essays, one of those... [Full Text]
	Dinah Lenney, to Judith Kitchen How shall I begin? (How shall you begin? How shall she begin ...[Full Text]
	DL interviews J. Ryan Stradal A YEAR AGO, Outpost19, an independent press based in San Francisco and New York, published the first California... [Full Text]
	Not-Quite-Naked Tuesday, June 24, 2014 —A writer friend of mine published a story, a family drama that featured a young couple... [Full Text]
	Consider the Prompt September 16, 2014 —A little background: I heard a celebrated writer say that. That is, she’d written it... [Full Text]
	Future Imperfect May 12, 2014 view this post at Bending Genre
	JayWalking at from the vortex April. 28, 2014 — Not that you’d do it just for kicks (you’d have to have slew of much better reasons... [Post]
	The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Parade In the beginning—or somewhere in the middle actually—there was a parade. A parade of.. [Full Text]
	SINGING LESsONS at from the vortex Nov. 29, 2013— Singing Lessons... [Post]
	THIS OLD WATCH This old watch isn’t really that old, not in the sense of family heirlooms. It isn’t a watch at all, in fact. It’s only the casing, the exterior, the glass... [Full Text]
	METRONOME I have a piano. And I have an old bench—came with my husband—works fine for playing, works even better... [Full Text]
	Cell Phone Diaries I’M SEATED next to a colleague at a celebratory dinner (a charming, young-ish man) delighted to have his attention, of course... [Full Text]
	DINAH LENNEY at The Gamut
	The SOUTHAMPTON REVIEW Vol. VII, No. 2 Summer 2013 Why Memoir Matters More Than Ever? Featuring work by Susan Cheever, Billy Collins, Sven Birkerts, Dinah Lenney and many, many more!
	Why Genre Matters THIS CONVERSATION began as a panel at AWP — the annual convention for creative writing programs and teachers — with Dinah... [Full Text]
	Guest Blog Post: On Finding a Palette In Just the Right Key A confession: I am—in the car, for instance, or on my stationery bike—likely to listen to oldie... [Full Text]
	Instructions, As If If I were brave, if I could commit to anything, I’d say scatter me in o... [Full Text]
	Dear Mr. Roth, The Southhampton Review Volume VII, No. 1 Spring 2013
	CHANDELIER Ironworks. A chandelier—enormous, cumbersome — hangs from a heavy, black chain (same material) over my kitchen table. Deceptive tot... [Full Text]
	WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU WAIT HOW TO DO IT. How to write about the things we see, hear, read, think about? The things that move us. How to get... [Full Text]
	OBJECT PARADE: ACORN Where could it have come from? Fred picked it up in the driveway the other day and brought it inside. A deep brown—as if roasted—with a tweedy little... [Full Text]
	UNDER THE INFLUENCE "Have you had anything to drink, Madam?" asked the patrolman. "Yes, I have," I answered. Slowly... [Full Text]
	MISSING LUCILE Recommended by Dinah Lenney Suzanne Berne's father was six years old when his mother died... [Full Text]
	THE BARBARIAN NURSERIES by Héctor Tobar — Book review by Dinah Lenney. In "Translation Nation," an account of the Latino experience across America published in 2005, Héctor Tobar recalled his father, a Guatemalan immigrant, telling him... [Full Text]
	DINAH LENNEY Speaking of Ghosts: For months now, I've been reading David Grossman's To the End of the Land — which I want to finish, but also I don't. A poet friend, David Biespiel... [Full Text]
	BE THOU THE VOICE The difference between classical music and jazz, said the well-known conductor, is that with classical, the music is always greater than the performance. He'd been invited... [Full Text]
	Against Knowing by Dinah Lenney Here's a story about one of those times that made all the difference: I was in the middle of getting my MFA in a low residency program – also... [Full Text]
	Dinah Lenney - "THE DINNER PARTY" Chet Baker croons in the background; the cocktail shaker rattles like a tambourine; candles are lit; colored paper lantern... [Issue 41 / Spring 2011]
	COMING TO TERMS WITH CHRISTMAS OP-ED — Growing up, we didn't do Christmas. We celebrated Hanukkah. But then came marriage and a family, and well... [Full Text]
	FLIGHT JACKET by Dinah Lenney Ingrate. My daughter the beautiful ingrate. It was supposed to have gone with her to college, to Boston. That was the plan, and she left it in her closet.[Full Text]
	Reissues of 'Instead of a Letter' and 'After a Funeral' by Diana Athill Book Review, Los Angeles Times — Diana Athill, longtime British editor of such writers as Philip Roth, V.S. Naipaul... [Full Text]
	'If You Knew Suzy' by Katherine Rosman Book Review, Los Angeles Times — Suzy Rosin developed an ugly cough in the fall of 2002, was diagnosed with lung cancer early the following... [Full Text]

	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]
	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]
	'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]
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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]
	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
	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
	Essays coming soon in AGNI
	and WATER~STONE
	Also in Brevity
	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
	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
	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]
	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]
	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]
	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]
	LA's area code obsession Published in Los Angeles Times Print Edition : Opinion October 7th 2007 [Full Text]
	'The Fires' by Alan Cheuse Special to The Times September 1, 2007 [Full Text]
	Ghost in the Dream Published in The New York Times - Magazine Feb, 18th 2007 [Full Text]
	Life Skills, LAUSD Style Published in LA Times - Opinion Jan 2007 [Full Text]
	Deal Published in AGNI September 2006 [Full Text]
	Signs Pubished in Get On The Bus City Space, San Francisco 2006 [Full Text]
	To De-Bag or Not Published in LA Times July 2005 [Full Text]

DL interviews Meghan Daum

Dinah Lenney, to Judith Kitchen

DL interviews J. Ryan Stradal

DINAH LENNEY

COMING TO TERMS WITH CHRISTMAS

Reissues of 'Instead of a Letter' and 'After a Funeral'

'If You Knew Suzy' by Katherine Rosman

OBJECT PARADE: COFFEE TABLE

SOMETHING FOR NOTHING

'MAKING TOAST: A Family Story' by Roger Rosenblatt

THIS SPOON

ARTS & CULTURE

ARTS & CULTURE

BOOK REVIEW

OFF THE SHELF

BOOK REVIEW

Essays

and WATER~STONE

Also in Brevity

OPINION

BOOK REVIEW

OPINION

BOOK REVIEW

BOOK REVIEW

BOOK REVIEW