Home > State of Emergency > Heidi Julavits Heidi Julavits Heidi Julavits has published short stories in Esquire (included in The Best American Short Stories 1999), Story, Zoetrope, and McSweeney’s. Her novels are The Mineral Palace and The Effect of Living Backwards. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Listen to Heidi Julavits read "Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby" from Amateurs by Donald Barthelme. Home | Site Map | Copyright / Privacy Policy | Contact Us © 2004-2012 PEN American Center. All rights reserved.