"[6] Michiko Kakutani, reviewing the same collection in The New York Times, wrote that Eisenberg has a "playwright's ear for dialogue and a journalistic eye for the askew detail".

[8] She is the credited screenwriter of the 2020 Steven Soderbergh film Let Them All Talk, for which she wrote a 50-page treatment from which the actors largely improvised the dialogue.

[16] In April 2015, in an exchange with PEN America's Executive Director Suzanne Nossel published in The Intercept by Glenn Greenwald,[17] Eisenberg criticized PEN's decision to bestow its annual Freedom of Expression Courage Award to Charlie Hebdo, calling the choice "an opportunistic exploitation of the horrible murders in Paris to justify and glorify offensive material expressing Islamophobic and nationalistic sentiments already widely shared in the Western world.

"[17] Joining Eisenberg in her protest of PEN's award ceremony were Peter Carey, Francine Prose, Teju Cole, Rachel Kushner and Taiye Selasi.

[18] In addition, 145 writers—including Junot Díaz, Lorrie Moore, Joyce Carol Oates and Michael Cunningham—signed a letter protesting PEN's decision.