Online

• “For Love and the Colts,” an essay published on SI.com the day after Super Bowl XLI that became the germ of Comeback Season.

Interviews

• 2014 interview with Shari Rudavsky from the Indianapolis Star about “life, love, and the Colts.”
• 2013 podcast reading about how to handle advice-seekers, on The Drunken Odyssey ~ A Podcast About the Writing Life.
• Brief 2013 statement to Brian Furuness for Brevity magazine, on fighting despair over writing.
• 2012 interview with Wendy Skinner for Sleet magazine about Midwest Gothic, strong female characters, and literary citizenship.
• 2012 interview for Historic Muncie project on “Creatives Living in the Emily Kimbrough District of Muncie” with my neighbor and BSU colleague Maura Jasper.
• 2012 interview with Lindsey Riley for Ball Bearings, Ball State’s magazine. A multi-media feature on the Peru Amateur Circus!
•  2011 interview by Linda Earle for GLCA New York Arts Program Alumni Newsletter–an interview about when I worked at Interview magazine!
• 2011 interview by Sara Phinney for a story on The Circus in Winter: a Musical for Indiana Public Radio 92.1 WBST.
• 2010 interview on the Ball State University English Department blog.
• 2010 interview with David Inge on WILL Urbana’s Focus.
  
• 2009 and 2006 podcast interviews with Ellen Wadey on WYEP Pittsburgh’s Prosody.
  
• 2008 Interview with Regis Behe in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
  
• 2008 interview with Bryan Furuness for Hobart literary journal online.
• 2005 interview with Kurt Andersen on PRI’s Studio 360.

Reviews

• Review of The Circus in Winter by John Warner in The Staff Recommends.
• Review of The Circus in Winter by Gary Krist in The New York Times.
• Review of The Circus in Winter by Michael Pakenham in The Baltimore Sun.
• Review of The Circus in Winter in Kirkus Reviews.
• Review of Comeback Season in Cynthia Closkey’s blog My Brilliant Mistakes.
• Review of Comeback Season by Rita Kohn in NUVO, Indianapolis.
• Review of Comeback Season by Samantha Bennett in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

News

• “Help! I’ve Frankenmonstered My Manuscript!” by Kathy Higgs-Coulthard at the Women On Writing website. Discussion of revising and storyboarding.
• “Embracing the Writing Challenge: Students Write Novels in 30 Days” by Gail Werner on the Ball State University website.

Readings and Talks

• Excerpt from The Circus in Winter, read by the author at Chapman University, 2010.

The Circus in Winter: The Musical

• Lou Harry’s excellent history of the musical from Indiana Business Journal.
• Goodspeed Musicals’ CIRCUS_Audience Guide
• Hartford Courant article about Circus.
• Playbill article on Hunter Foster.
• Ben Clark singing “Never Alone” at the Palladium.
• Article about the book and musical in The Batesville Herald-Tribune.
• Ball Bearings Magazine video presentation about the history of the Peru Amateur Circus.
• Punchnel’s essay on the centennial of the Miami County Flood.
• STAGE magazine’s feature by Pat Maley: “The Circus in Winter: A New Musical on a Unique Journey.”
• Punchnel’s feature by Josh Flynn on the journey the musical has taken
• A NAMT interview with the writers of The Circus in Winter, Beth Turcotte and Ben Clark
• Sutton Foster cast in The Circus in Winter.
• “From Ball State to the Big Apple: Circus in Winter advances to national festival”
• Full list of the national award winners from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival
•  “Ball State Theater Production Up for Awards.” Muncie Star Press. March 25, 2012.
• “From Page to Stage,” Katherine Greene, Ball State Alumnus Magazine. November 2011, pp. 12-13.
• Download the soundtrack.
• “It takes a circus.” Lou Harry, Indiana Business Journal.
• “An absolute must-see musical.” Erik Deckers. Indiana Insider Blog.
• TV commercial featuring Ben Clark, who wrote the music and lyrics and another video about the adaptation process.
• Videos from the production: Amazing, If I Could Know You, and Circus Day
• Photos of the production, courtesy Ball State Daily News.
• “Circus Musical: Peru native’s book being staged at Ball State.“ Danielle Rush. Kokomo Tribune.
• Feature on Christopher and Justin Swader, set designers for the musical, from the Evansville Courier & Press.
• “Big Top Hits the Stage,” from the Ball State University website.
• “The Circus in Winter Comes to Muncie Civic Theater.” Ball State University English Department blog.
• Article in Ball State’s alumni magazine
• The Circus in Winter: The Musical website.