Books

I’ve written three books, each in their own way about how to see clearly and live in our strange world with beauty and wisdom and hope — and also movies and books and dinner parties and joy. Click through for more on each.

We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine (Liveright, 2025)

Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women (Broadleaf, 2022)

How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World (with Robert Joustra, Eerdmans, 2016)