MELINDA COPP
Writing
Nonfiction
"On Writing and Reading Despicable Rich Guys," for Women Writers, Women's Books.
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"When My Career Stalled, I Got a Job at Olive Garden. I Was Shocked by What I Experienced There," for HuffPost.
“The Fate of the Oyster,” for The Petigru Review.
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“Alligator Nature and Nurture,” for 1966; A Journal of Creative Nonfiction.
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“Who’s the Cutest Rattlesnake,” for Science Creative Quarterly.
Reviews
"Percival Everett's 'James' Is as Essential as the American Classic It Re​imagines," for The Post and Courier.
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"French Writer Valérie Perrin's Novel Tells a Remarkable Story of Love and Loss," for The Post and Courier.
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"Rufi Thorpe's Latest Novel a Hilarious, Wise Story about an American Mom," for The Post and Courier.
"Debut Novel Illustrates Complexities of a Marriage Falling Apart," for The Post and Courier.
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"George Orwell Was a Terrible Husband and Other Revelations from Wifedom," for The Post and Courier.
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"A Quitter's Paradise Details the Perils and Pleasures of Giving Up," for The Post and Courier.
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"New Novel Reimagines and Centers on Don Quixote's Dulcinea," for The Post and Courier.
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"Comedy and Love Win in New Curtis Sittenfeld Novel," for The Post and Courier.
"Irish Women Triumph Over Hardship in Donal Ryan's Queen of Dirt Island," for The Post and Courier.
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"Lydia Millet's Latest Novel 'Dinosaurs' Engages and Soars," for The Post and Courier.
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"Artifacts of Adolescence; Curing Season by Kristine Langley Mahler," for The Rumpus.
“Daughters of the New Year is a Sweeping Family Saga of Identity and Change,” for The Post and Courier.
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“The Weird Gets Weirder in Deb Rogers’s Florida Woman,” for The Post and Courier.
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“Flannery O’Connor’s Letters Home Published for the First Time,” for The Post and Courier.
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“Author Akwaeke Emezi Delivers Hot Summer Nights and Unexpected Love,” for The Post and Courier.
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“The Art of Noticing: On Alison Townsend’s The Green Hour,” for The Cleveland Review of Books.
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“Gathering Blossoms Under Fire is a Gift from Author Alice Walker,” for The Post and Courier.
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“Road Running Southward Revisits John Muir’s Travels through the South,” for the Post and Courier.
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“An Exploration of Love in Lily King’s New Collection,” for The Post and Courier.
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“In Tahmima Anam’s New Novel, The Startup Wife, Good Ideas Get Out of Control,” for The Post and Courier.
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“The Places Within Us All: On Gwen Goodkin’s A Place Remote,” for The Cleveland Review of Books.
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“The Fluidity of Language and Identity: Melissa Faliveno’s Tomboyland,” for The Rumpus.