Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly. Her print and digital work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, Eater, Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and elsewhere. Her 2021 Bon Appétit essay, “In My Childhood Kitchen, I Learned Both Fear and Love,” is anthologized in the 2022 Best American Food Writing collection.
Selinger's new novel is Valley of the Moms.
At CrimeReads the author tagged "five titles, set in Massachusetts towns, [that] bring together people, plot, and place." One novel on the list:
Peter Swanson, Kill Your DarlingsRead about another novel on the list.
Set in a fictional town on my own North Shore, Swanson’s 2025 book chronicles a murder and its underpinnings in reverse; the book begins with a deed that readers must travel backwards in time to understand. Thom and Wendy Graves, spouses for over two decades, have a secret, and that secret has ultimately eroded their relationship in the present tense.
Working backwards, Swanson carefully unveils a series of acts, executed at the start of their marriage, that has set in motion the inevitable end of their union. Brooding and thoughtful, the book’s nuance hinges on its sense of place, a small Massachusetts town where just about anything can happen.
Kill Your Darlings is among Addison Rizer's top six thrillers about marriage.
--Marshal Zeringue
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