some essays i like

Some are about New Jersey and some are not, but all of the following pieces of writing are examples of the kind of work I want to include in the book. Most of them have a heavy emphasis on place.

• You Can Never Escape The Jersey Shore by Tasha Coryell (The Rumpus)

• Of Donuts I Have Loved by Miranda Dennis (Granta)

• Mega-drought and Me by Zoe Fenson (Longreads)

• How Hot Chicken Really Happened by Rachel L. Martin, Ph.D. (The Bitter Southerner)

• Big Sky by Kelsey McKinney (Hazlitt)

• A Map of Lost Things: On Family, Grief, and the Meaning of Home by Jamila Osman (Catapult)

• This Is a Story About Loss by Stephanie Grob Plante (Vox)

• The My Generation: An Oral History of MySpace Music by Michael Tedder (Sterogum)

• All Hail the Mighty Balloon Lobby by Michael Waters (The Outline)

• In the Shadow of the Blueberry Titans, Smaller Growers Thrive by Rachel Wharton (New York Times)