Some online sources on ZZ Packer

Interviews:

Packer, ZZ. “The Aerial View.” Interview with Cressida Leyshon. New Yorker 25 Nov. 2002. New Yorker. Web. Access date http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2002/11/25/021125on_onlineonly01?currentPage=all

Packer, ZZ. Interview with Robert Birnbaum. Identitytheory.com 29 Apr. 2003. Access date http://www.identitytheory.com/interviews/birnbaum103.html

Packer, ZZ. “Selling Short Story Short: An Interview with ZZ Packer.” Interview with Brian A. Klems. Writer’s Digest 20 July 2011. Writer’s Digest. Web. Access date. http://www.writersdigest.com/writing-articles/by-writing-goal/improve-my-writing/packer-1

Book reviews:

DeCarlo, Tessa. “Comedienne of Manners.” Rev. of Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, by ZZ Packer. Smithsonian Magazine Oct. 2007. Smithsonian.com. Web. Access date http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specialsections/innovators/packer.html

Chiew, Elaine. Rev. of Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, by ZZ Packer. The Short Review. Web. Access date http://www.theshortreview.com/reviews/ZZPackerDrinkingCoffeeElsewhere.htm

MA thesis:

Howe, Katy A. “Isolation and Community in Short Story Collections by ZZ Packer, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Mary Gaitskill.” MA thesis. Rhode Island College, 2006. Digital Commons. Access date (note: the link seems as though it does not always work. If you have trouble, try typing “ZZ Packer” and “digital commons” into google, and the text should come up). http://digitalcommons.ric.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=etd&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%3Dzz%2520packer%2520digital%2520commons%26source%3Dweb%26cd%3D1%26ved%3D0CCMQFjAA%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fdigitalcommons.ric.edu%252Fcgi%252Fviewcontent.cgi%253Farticle%253D1004%2526context%253Detd%26ei%3D4OorT8dtrq7YBbXHrJEP%26usg%3DAFQjCNE-P4ILFM5tyTUkMa1K8YlQOeMfQQ#search=%22zz%20packer%20digital%20commons%22

Packer gave a reading at Berkeley, available on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D50EMdmkE6M (she reads “Brownies,” the first story in Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, and takes questions for 10 minutes at the end)