SHORT FICTION
Like a Bomb Went Off (novella) - Alaska Quarterly Review (2022)
“Little Billionth” - Pigeon Pages
“There Aren’t Tornados in Brooklyn” - Recommended Reading
“Baby Teeth” - Chicago Quarterly Review
“Absences” - Prairie Schooner
“The Samples” - The Sun Magazine - Pushcart Prize XLV Winner *
“The Corps of Discovery” – ZYZZYVA - *Special Mention in Pushcart Anthology 2019 *
“Auto-da-fé” - Liar’s League NYC
“Lexiphanic Love” – Story Magazine
“In the Backseat” – Time Out New York
“Chumship” – ZYZZYVA - * Distinguished in Best American Short Stories 2016 *
“Madame Bovary, C’est Moi” – Columbia Magazine
“The Uraniums” – Legacy: An Anthology, Velvet Morning Press
“Porcupines and Nightmare” – Adult Magazine
“A Summer Wedding” – 2nd Place Winner – Blue Mesa Review
“The Wedding Reception” – Opium Magazine
ESSAYS & OTHER WRITINGS
Gone in the Desert and Never Going Home: On “The Disappeared” by Andrew Porter
Reading Through the Midterms: Finding Bipartisanship with Books on the Front Lines of Democracy - Lithub
Am I a Jewish Writer Now? - Tablet Magazine
An Obsessive Unpacks a Bewildering Insult: “Fish (in 13 Sections” by Eric Ozawa - Recommended Reading
We Should be Contrarians — an Interview with Alice McDermott - BOMB Magazine
My Name is Not Anna Steidel - Catapult/Don’t Write Alone
Out of the Ordinary - The Sun
Why Shirley Jackson Is Everyone’s New Favorite Author - Electric Literature
Why We Stayed Home - Chronogram
Remembering Stephen Dixon: Writer, Teacher, Friend - Lithub
A Gay High School “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” Featuring Kurt Cobain - Electric Literature
Trump: Autopsie d’une Marque - America Magazine
My Not-So-Bad Birth Defect - The New York Times
The Big Head - Lithub
The Science of Magical Thinking – The Center for Fiction
Something to Do with Work as Play: David Foster Wallace and ‘The Nature of the Fun’ – The Center for Fiction
Who’s the God of Minnie Marsh? – The Center for Fiction
Death in the Middle – Real Simple
Mourning Clothes – Salon
“Don’t Write About Writing - Electric Literature
“Twenty Nine Feet, Eight and a Quarter Inches” - The Rumpus
“The End or Something” – The New York Times
“A Star is Born” – The New York Times, Sunday Review
“The B Cup Café” – Barnes and Noble Blog
“The Royal Pinkie” – BookReporter.com
“Why We Write” – Slice Magazine - * Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2014 *
“The Smart Set” – Johns Hopkins Magazine
“Finishing the Hat: Elmore Leonard, Raylan, and Justified” – Salon
“Shadow of a Doubt: Franz Kafka and TV’s ‘The Killing’”– The Millions
“Saving Salinger” - The Millions
“Breakthrough: The Dramatic Discovery of Insulin at The New York Historical Society” - A Sweet Life
“Diabetes: The Next Generation” - A Sweet Life
Literary Artifacts Columns – The Outlet: Electric Literature
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Prodigals by Greg Jackson
Review: Annie DeWitt Investigates the Countryside
“War Stories: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” – The Believer