Essays/Articles
“The Romance of Elsewhere,” essay, www.narrativemagazine.com, Fall, 2010
“In Praise of Younger Men,” essay, wowOwow.com, 6 August, 2009
http://www.wowowow.com/relationships/praise-younger-men-lynn-freed-342688?page=0%2C1
“An Ecologically Incorrect Hotel,” essay, wowOwow.com, 1 July, 2009
http://www.wowowow.com/entertainment/environmentally-friendly-hotels-resorts-lynn-freed-servants-quarters-301336
“The Secret to Receiving Great Customer Service,” essay, wow0wow.com, 1 June, 2009
http://www.wowowow.com/entertainment/secret-receiving-great-customer-service-lynn-freed-305762?page=0%2C1www.wowowow
“Five Best: Lynn Freed selects her favorite books evoking the immigrant life,” The Wall Street Journal, 30 May, 2009
“Lynn Freed’s Cape Town”, interview, More Magazine, March, 2006
“Happy Birthday to Me”, essay, KISS TOMORROW HELLO: NOTES FROM THE MIDLIFE UNDERGROUND BY TWENTY-FIVE WOMEN OVER FORTY, ed. Kim Barnes and Claire Davis, Doubleday, NY, 2006
“Locked In”, essay, in SINGLE WOMEN OF A CERTAIN AGE, Inner Ocean Publishing, Inc., 2005
“Doing Time”, essay, Harper’s Magazine, July, 2005
Excerpted in Literary Austin, ed. Judy Alter and James Ward Lee, Texas University Press, Austin, Texas 2006
“Where Diversity Reigns”, essay, National Geographic Traveler, March 2005
Reprinted, National Geographic Deutschland (G & J ), March, 2008
“Embracing the Alien”, essay, Southwest Review, Winter, 2003
“Taming the Gorgon: My Mother into Fiction”, essay, The Georgia Review, Winter, 2003
“A Demurral,” essay, PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers Issue 3, volume 2, 2002
Interview with Lynn Freed by Sarah Anne Johnson, The Writer, June, 2002
Included in CONVERSATIONS WITH AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS, ed. Sarah Anne Johnson, University Press of New England, 2003
Reprinted in Glimmer Train, Issue #16
Excerpted in GLIMMER TRAIN GUIDE TO WRITING FICTION: BUILDING BLOCKS, ed. Susan Burmeister-Brown and Linda B. Swanson-Davies, Writer’s Digest Books, 2006
Excerpted in GLIMMER TRAIN GUIDE TO WRITING FICTION: INSPIRATION AND DISCIPLINE, ed. Susan Burmeister-Brown and Linda B. Swanson-Davies, Writer’s Digest Books, 2007
“Sex with the Servants, or Autobiography and Fiction”, Tin House Magazine, Spring, 2002
“Not Much of a Funeral”, essay, in FROM DAUGHTERS AND SONS TO FATHERS: WHAT I’VE NEVER SAID, edited by Constance Warloe, Story Line Press, Ashland, OR, Spring, 2001
“Who?”, short-short, Santa Monica Review, Fall, 2000
“Embracing the Alien”, essay, in BECOMING AMERICAN: PERSONAL ESSAYS BY FIRST GENERATION IMMIGRANT WOMEN, edited by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, February, 2000
Included in BECOMING AMERICAN: PERSONAL ESSAYS BY FIRST GENERATION IMMIGRANT WOMEN, edited by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, Seven Stories, New York, 2007
“False Starts”, essay, The Threepenny Review, December, 1999
Excerpted in The Writer, November, 2005
Included in WRITER’S WORKSHOP IN A BOOK: THE SQUAW VALLEY COMMUNITY OF WRITERS ON THE ART OF FICTION, Introduction by Richard Ford, Edited by Alan Cheuse and Lisa Alvarez, Chronicle Books, July, 2007
Interview with Lynn Freed by Sarah Anne Johnson, The Writer’s Chronicle, October, 1999
Included in SERIOUS WOMEN, DARING WORDS, ed. Sarah Anne Johnson, University Press of New England, 2003
“Homeward Bound”, essay, House & Garden April, 1998
Multiple Choice”, essay, Living Fit, October, 1997
“Call Home”, essay, in I’VE ALWAYS MEANT TO TELL YOU: LETTERS TO OUR MOTHERS., an anthology, edited by Constance Warloe, Pocket Books, NY, May, 1997
Reprinted as FROM DAUGHTERS TO MOTHERS, Pocket Books, 1998
“Multiple Choice”, essay, Living Fit, October, 1997
“Being Jewish, Looking Jewish”, essay, The Jewish Quarterly, Summer, 1996
“Partners, Not Clones: The Work of Two L.A. Garden Designers”, article, House Beautiful, June, 1996
“Black Sash”, essay, Confrontation, Spring/Summer, 1996
“The Power and Glory of Hair”, essay, Femina, March, 1996
“A Child’s Reading in South Africa”, essay, Book World, The Washington Post, 10, December, 1995
Included in BOOKWORMS: GREAT WRITERS & READERS CELEBRATE READING, ed. by Laura Furman and Elinore Standard, Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., NY, 1997
“South Africa’s Garden Route”, article, The New York Times, (Travel), November 5, 1995
“Stranger in my House”, essay, House Beautiful, August, 1995
“Africa’s Deep South”, essay, House Beautiful, May, 1995
“Ignorance Chic”, essay, Mirabella, January, 1995
“Modern Oases”, travel essay, Mirabella, January, 1995
“An Unregenerate Romantic”, article, House Beautiful, October, 1994
“South Africa”, essay, Travel & Leisure, September, 1994
Reprinted in Doctor’s Review, December, 1995
Reprinted in Money Cultural Enterprise Company, China, 1995
“Honorary Son”, essay, Allure, September, 1994
Excerpted in The Oprah Magazine, South Africa Jan. 2006
“Waste Not”, House Beautiful, September, 1994
“Letter From South Africa”, essay, Elle, July, 1994
“North Sonoma Coast”, article, The New York Times, (Travel), July 3, 1994
“Servants”, essay, The New York Times Magazine (“Hers”), May 15, 1994
“True Believer”, article, House Beautiful, October, 1993
“Vividly South African: An Interview with Athol Fugard”, Southwest Review, Summer, 1993
Reprinted: Gale Research
“Pacifica Women’s Council”, article, Elle, July, 1993
Hostile Territory: Interview with Randy Shilts, Mirabella, June, 1993
“Mexikanisches Paradies: Las Alamandas”, travel article, Vogue (Germany) May, 1993
“The Ultimate Spring Cleaning”, article, House Beautiful, May, 1993
“It’s a Small, Unnatural World,” (Disneyland), essay, The New York Times (Travel), 11, April, 1993
“Northern Lights”, article, House & Garden, February, 1993
“Without the Mango Tree”, essay, House Beautiful, February, 1993
Reprinted: House and Leisure, South Africa, October, 1993
Reprinted: THOUGHTS OF HOME, REFLECTIONS ON FAMILY, HOUSE AND HOMELANDS FROM THE PAGES OF HOUSE BEAUTIFUL, Hearst Books, 1995
“The Victoria Falls”, article, The New York Times, (Travel), 24, January, 1993
“Letter from Sonoma”, essay, New York Newsday, 3, January, 1993
“A Table for One”, essay, The New York Times, (Travel),16, August, 1992
“Locked In”, essay, The New York Times Magazine (“Hers”), 22, March, 1992
Interview with Athol Fugard, The New York Times, (Arts & Leisure), 26, January, 1992
“Sex With The Servants, or, Autobiography and Fiction,” essay, THE CONFIDENCE WOMAN: 26 WRITERS AT WORK, ed. Eve Shelnutt, Longstreet, Atlantic, June, 1991
“Letter From Texas”, essay, Mirabella, November, 1990
“Letter From South Africa”, essay, Mirabella, July, 1990
“Letter From London”, essay, Mirabella, April, 1990
“Lunch with Rian Malan”, interview, Mirabella, December, 1989
“The Big Snore”, essay, The New York Times Magazine (“Hers”), December 4, 1988
Excerpted: O Magazine, South Africa, June, 2007
“Useful Zulu Phrases”, essay, Harper’s Magazine, May, 1986
“The Right Voice”, essay, Fair Lady, South Africa, March 19, 1986