Publisher's Weekly said the book-length essay "threatens to remap the entire genre of nonfiction," noting the "brilliant, dexterous prose." A pick for best-of-the-year lists in Time, Salon, Slate, and elsewhere, Thrown is forthcoming in German, Dutch, British, French, and Swedish editions.
Howley's essays, excerpts, and reportage have been published in Granta, The Paris Review, Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, Bookforum, and New York Magazine. She is a graduate of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program.