Her work has appeared in The Nation, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Believer, and Bookforum, as well as on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” Her essay on the making and meaning of Roberto Bolaño’s novel 2666, “Alone Among the Ghosts” (The Nation, 2008), was reprinted as the introduction to Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview & Other Conversations (Melville House, 2009).