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“…a brilliant debut… Sad, funny, and always wise, Levy’s stories reveal truths about how we love and lose, trust and betray, with an intelligence that takes my breath away.”
—Cheryl Strayed, bestselling author of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“…Love, in Theory is a collection richly worthy of Flannery O’Connor’s name.”
–Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer-prize winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
“Selfishness has never been sent up as mordantly as it is in E.J. Levy’s debut collection of stories.”
—Andrew Holleran, author of Dancer from the Dance and Grief
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“Levy is a genuine talent, a unique and powerful voice, with a gift for the sort of close and subtle observation of the world and its people that characterizes great literature.”
— Lee Martin, author of The Bright Forever and Break the Skin
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WINNER of the Lambda Literary Award
“…beautiful, sad, sweet, moving, and defiant. At twice the price, this book still would be well worth purchasing. Highly recommended.”
–Library Journal
“To Cèpe, With Love”
Salmagundi, Spring 2011
“Artichoke Hearts”
Kenyon Review, Summer 2010
“The Maggots in Your Mushrooms”
The New York Times, February 13, 2009
“Notes from the Fall”
American Literary Review, Fall 2007
“Home Is Where the Heart Aches”
The Missouri Review, Fall 2005
* “Notable Essay” – Best American Essays 2006
“Amazons”
Orion, Summer 1999
* Named “One of 25 Nonfiction Writers to Watch in the New Millennium” – Writers Digest 2000
* Pushcart Prize nominee
“Mastering the Art of French Cooking”
Salmagundi, Fall 2004-Winter 2005
* Winner, Best American Essays 2005
* Winner, Pushcart Prize 2007
* Reprinted in The Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction
“…a remarkable first-person account of a life….E.J. Levy remembers [her] mother by way of the romantic Julia Child meals she prepared while [she] was growing up.”
–Publishers Weekly, August 15, 2005
“The Three Christs of Moose Lake, MN”
Chicago Tribune, November 2009
* Award Winner ($1,500 Finalist), Nelson Algren Prize
“Criticism”
Sonora Review, Issue 55-56, Spring 2009
* Third Place, So To Speak, essay contest
* Finalist, Sonora Review, short-short story contest
“My Life In Theory”
Enhanced Gravity: More Fiction by Washington Area Women, Paycock Press, Ed: Richard Peabody, 2006
“… E.J. Levy´s ‘My Life in Theory,’ a standout entry…examines the shifting uncertainties of gender in a cultural environment where the ‘theoretical’ and the ‘real’ often become hard to tell apart, and does so in language that is by turns exhilaratingly lyrical and incisively intellectual.”
– James Owens, PedestalMagazine.com, # 36, Fall 2006
“Gravity”
Prism International, Winter 2004
“Equally fine this issue is fiction from E.J. Levy …a writer with a great ear for dialogue, a mature sense of story, and masterful control over her characters’ emotional journeys.”
– Sima Rabinowitz, NewPages.com, May 18, 2004
“Theory of the Leisure Class”
Paris Review, Summer 2003
* “Distinguished Story” – Best American Short Stories 2004
“Small Bright Thing”
North American Review, March-April 2003
“The Best Way Not to Freeze”
Gettysburg Review, Spring 2002
* “Distinguished Story” – Best American Short Stories 2003
* Award Winner ($1,500 Finalist), Nelson Algren Prize [declined]
“Theory of Dramatic Action”
ACM, No. 39, 2001
*Winner, Chicago Literary Award
“Rat Choice”
The Missouri Review, Spring 2001
“Supernatural Powers”
Mid-American Review, Vol. XXI, No. 1, Spring 2001
*Winner, 2000 AWP Intro Journals Award
