Press
The Louisville Courier-Journal
The Chicago Tribune's Printers Row
ABC Radio National (Australia)
Media & Culture (Australia)
Courier Mail (Australia)
Oxford American (Editor's Choice)
Interviews, Profiles, & Press/Honors
Dzanc's "20 Writers to Watch: An Alternative List."
Guardian article on the Frank O'Connor Award shortlist.
Boston Globe "Shelf Life" article.
The Story Prize long list.
The Frank O'Connor Award longlist & shortlist.
ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards finalist.
Barnes & Noble "Discover Great New Writers" Program selection.
Andrew's Book Club November selection.
Foreword Magazine Book Club selection.
Louisville-Courier Journal "Best Reads for the Holidays" pick.
The Daily Beast "Great Reads for the Holidays" pick.
Selected by Travis Kurowski for Book Fox's "Best Story Collections of 2009" series.
Grand Rapids Public Library Best Story Collections of 2009.
Virginia Quarterly Review Best Books of 2009.
KNPR interview.
Glimmer Train interview.
HTML Giant's "List of Lists" inclusion.
The Rumpus interview.
American Short Fiction interview.
Hobart first book roundtable.
Writer's Digest Q & A (November/December issue).
Poets & Writers "Page One" & excerpt on the PW site.
Luna Park interview: Part I & Part II.
Interview with The Faster Times.
Interview with Andrew Scott.
Live Nude Books interview.
L Magazine interview.
Fringe Magazine interview.
The Art of the Author Interview interview.
One Story - interview with Laura about the title story.
Art Throb profile.
Interview with Laura at HTML Giant.
Interview with Laura at Recommended Reading.
Boston Phoenix profile of Laura.
Profile of Laura in the Emerson College paper.
Poets & Writers "Writers Recommend"
JMWW "Origins" guest post.
Vernacular guest post.
Book Lady's Blog guest post.
The Nervous Breakdown Feature.
Largehearted Boy Book Notes post.
L Magazine names What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, the title story of Laura's collection, one of the best stories published by New York City magazines in 2008.
Julia Peterkin Award announcement.
Fiction Online
Here is Your Weather at Five Chapters.
Up High in the Air at Boston Review.
The Golden Dragon Express at Storyglossia.
Transit, which was selected by Wigleafas one of the top 50 online stories of 2008, at Hobart Online.
Field Work & Parakeets at Guernica.
To the Good People of Mars from the Writers' Digest anthology You Muse Be This Tall to Ride: Contemporary Writers Take You Inside the Story.
Nonfiction Online
Essay on submitting to literary magazines at The Review Review.
Review of A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert for The Rumpus.
Review of Apologize, Apologize! by Elizabeth Kelly for Bookslut.
Review of Last Last Chance by Fiona Maazel for Bookslut.
Review of Bang Crunch by Neil Smith for Ploughshares.
Review of Vacation by Deb Olin Unferth for The Rumpus.
Review of Big World by Mary Miller for The Rumpus.
Review of The Dart Leauge King by Keith Lee Morris for The Rumpus.
Profile of Andrea Barrett for Ploughshares.
Interview with Jim Shepard for Memorious.
Miscellany
Slideshow from the Four Stories Reading Series, where Laura read in March 2008.
Slideshow from the St. Augustine Project, where Laura was a guest speaker.