Eryn Loeb

Eryn Loeb’s writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Poets & Writers, Bookforum, The Awl, The Toast and The Millions, among other publications. She lives in Brooklyn and dreams about Maine. Follow her on Twitter @erynloeb.

OutlinesDecember 22, 2015

Loss and Labor: An interview with Mira Ptacin

By Eryn Loeb

In 2008, when Mira Ptacin was five months pregnant, she attended a writing workshop in Northern California.

OutlinesNovember 17, 2015

Rock and a Hard Place: An Interview with Lauret Savoy

By Eryn Loeb

or Lauret Savoy, the American landscape is both a refuge and a provocation. In her work as a writer and geologist, she parses layers…

OutlinesSeptember 17, 2015

Truth and Lies: An Interview with Janice Erlbaum

By Eryn Loeb

When Villard Books, a Random House imprint, published Janice Erlbaum’s second memoir, Have You Found Her (2008), Vanity Fair threw her a party at…

OutlinesAugust 13, 2015

Beyond the Archives: An Interview with Rebecca Onion

By Eryn Loeb

For Rebecca Onion, history is a reservoir of problems and questions that resonate as deeply with the present as they do with the past.

On RepeatJuly 1, 2015

Starter Home

By Eryn Loeb

When my parents sold the house I grew up in, I was determined not to be sentimental about it.

On RepeatMay 7, 2015

Return Trip, OBX

By Eryn Loeb

ll the houses in the Outer Banks have names. They’re the kind of affectionate, ocean-themed identifiers owners bestow on their property regardless of what…

On Repeat, OutlinesMarch 26, 2015

Beginnings, Ends, and In-Betweens: An Interview With Sarah Manguso

By Eryn Loeb

“I don’t think in stories, I never have. I know that everybody does, that we do think in stories, that’s like a physiological necessity. I guess I’m interested in parts of stories, but this whole idea of having a narrative arc with a beginning a middle and an end, that just never really worked on me.”