Daniel Torday is the author of a short novel, The Sensualist, winner of the 2012 National Jewish Book Award for Outstanding Debut Fiction. His short stories and essays have appeared in Esquire Magazine, Glimmer Train, Harvard Review, the New York Times, and The Kenyon Review. He serves as Director of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College.
Fiction
Summer 2007
Undress
The spot of psoriasis on her left ankle looked like what? And did she always take her socks off first? It seemed as if this must always be her way, […]
Remembering 9/11 Web Feature
Undress
The spot of psoriasis on her left ankle looked like what? And did she always take her socks off first? It seemed as if this must always be her way, […]
Fall 2008
James Wood and the Pitfalls of Writing on Writing: Review of James Wood’s How Fiction Works
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $24.00 (hardcover) While going back and forth with Maxwell Perkins on some final edits of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald sent a smattering of awful choices for […]
Spring 2009
The Duct Tape Brother
When I’d finally saved up enough duct tape, I made myself a duct tape brother. I was an only child growing up, and my friends who had older brothers were […]
Daniel Torday
This interview was conducted by Hilary Plum, Book Review Editor for Kenyon Review. Some summer evening we were walking back from the Kokosing River toward Kenyon College—we were teaching, or […]