THE COMPLETE WORKS, CONTINUED.
Books
Now Beacon, Now Sea, Catapult, 2021
The Fugitives, Simon & Schuster, 2016
Death Wish, Soft Skull Press, 2010
American Tempura, Nothing Moments Books, 2007
Believeniks! (pseudonymous co-author, writing as Ivan Felt), Doubleday, 2006
Trance, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005
Sound On Sound, Dalkey Archive Press, 1995
Anthologies
"The Renovation of the Just," The Nicotine Chronicles, Ed. Lee Child, Akashic Books, September 2020
"Interview with Sam Lipsyte," reprinted in Bomb: The Author Interviews, edited by Betsy Sussler, Soho Press, 2014
"Witness to History," (round table, with Maud Casey, Myla Goldberg, Karl Iagnemma) reprinted in Talk Show: On the Couch With Contemporary Writers, edited by Jaime Clark, PFP, 2013
“The Pride of Life,” reprinted in They’re at It Again: An Open City Reader, edited by Thomas Beller and Joanna Yas, Open City Books, 2011
“Death in the Age of Digital Proliferation, and Other Considerations,” reprinted in The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death,Ed. David Shields and Bradford Morrow, WW Norton, 2011
“When He Was Seventeen,” reprinted in More New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of the New York Times, Ed. Constance Rosenblum, NYU Press, 2010
“Dave Kingman,” Top of the Order: 25 Writers Pick Their Favorite Baseball Player, Ed. Sean Manning, Da Capo, 2010
Introduction to The Abyss of Human Illusion, by Gilbert Sorrentino, Coffee House Press, 2010
Contribution to Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak, Ed. Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser, HarperCollins, 2009
“Misapprehensions,” reprinted in A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years, Ed. Rebecca Wolff, Fence Books, 2009
“Julie Halo,” reprinted in New Standards, Ed. Jason Snyder, Fourteen Hills Press, 2005
“Organism,” contribution to The Future Dictionary of America,Ed. Jonathan Safran Foer, Dave Eggers, and Nicole Krauss, McSweeney’s Books, 2004
“The Ger Sheker,” Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers: Writers on Comics, ed. Sean Howe, Pantheon Books, 2004
Fiction
"Apparition of Danhoff," The Paris Review, Winter 2015
"The Great Ape," The Brooklyn Rail, September 2012
"The Cursed," Conjunctions, Spring 2012
“Our Prom Crash,” Fence, Fall 2011
“FAQ,” Gerry Mulligan, Spring 2011
“Unhappy Families,” The Literary Review, Winter 2011
“Stardust,” Playboy, August 2010
“Poem by Harris Conklin / Reply by Ivan Felt” (with Jonathan Lethem), Black Clock, Spring/Summer 2010
“The Pride of Life,” Open City, Winter 2010
“Mr. Pickwick Coathook,” Significant Objects, (http://significantobjects.com), October 2009
“Ventriloquy,” BOMB, Fall 2009
“Ever Again,” Tin House, Winter 2009.
“The Photographer Upstairs,” Conjunctions, Spring 2008
“Crepuscule With Mickey,” reprinted in Harper’s, March 2007
“Paper Confessions,” Esquire, 2007
“Crepuscule With Mickey,” Conjunctions, Fall 2006
“Among the Conspirators,” New England Review, 2005
“Misapprehensions,” Fence, Spring/Summer 2004
“On a Mistakenly Stolen Letter,” Other People’s Stories (http://www.otherpeoplesstories.com), May 2003
“Julie Halo,” 14 Hills, Summer/Fall 2003
“Condition,” Conjunctions, Spring 2003
“Memory Alpha,” Conjunctions, Fall 2001
“Heather,” The Baffler, Spring 2001
“Living Jackie Robinson,” Speak, Summer 2000
“Stalingrad,” Conjunctions, Spring 2000
“The Organ Grinder,” McSweeney’s, Late Summer/Early Fall 1999
“Lunchroom,” Fence, Fall/Winter 1999
"From Night Covers All," The Spitting Image, Fall 1996
"Roanoke," Private Arts, Fall 1996
"From Night Covers All," Cups, Spring 1996
"Ghost Talk," Private Arts, Winter 1993
Nonfiction
“Lucky Stars,” Moistworks (https://moistworks.com/home/luckystars), 2020
"When We Are a Wilderness," The Believer, reprinted 2017
"Dept. of Speculation," Bookforum, June/July/August 2016
On Wallace Markfield's To an Early Grave," Tin House, Fall 2012
“Stepping into Dad’s Prose,” Los Angeles Times, March 28, 2010
Interview with Sam Lipsyte, BOMB, Spring 2010
“Portrait of My Father,” Granta, 2009
“Death in the Age of Digital Proliferation, and Other Considerations," Conjunctions, 2008
Interview with Zachary Lazar, BOMB, Spring 2008
“When He Was Seventeen,” City Section, The New York Times, September 16, 2007
“Recommendation: Keith Waldrop’s Light While There is Light,” Post Road, 2007
“When We Are a Wilderness,” Moistworks, (http://www.moistworks.com), 2007
Afterword to The Abyss of Human Illusion by Gilbert Sorrentino, Golden Handcuffs Review, 2007
“Book One, Book Two,” Publishers Weekly, January 2007
Squib on black tie, Esquire, December 2006
“In Memoriam,” A Public Space, Summer 2006
“Michael of Arabia,” Blender, July 2006
On Jilted John and The Dead Boys, Moistworks, (http://www.moistworks.com), 2006
“Anything and Everything,” Powells.com, (http://www.powells.com/essays/sorrentino.html), 2005
On William Gaddis, Conjunctions, Fall 2003
“Reading B.S. Johnson,” Context, Fall 2000
“The Assault of Desire: Reading Coleman Dowell’s Island People,” Context, Spring 2000
"Musial and McCartney--Together Again for the First Time," The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 1998
“Flotsam vs. The Ulcer Diet,” Fence, Spring 1998
“A Sense of Speech,” Rain Taxi Review of Books, Spring 1997
"Nathanael West's Secret Sharer," Rain Taxi Review of Books, Spring 1996
"Specially Marked Packages," The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Spring 1996
"A New Kind of Road," an interview with Stephen Dixon (co-conducted with Alexander Laurence), Cups #65, Fall 1995
"Rock Novel Confidential: Why I Wrote One," Pulse!, October 1995
Book Reviews
Unfinished Business, by Vivian Gornick, BookForum, February/March 2020
(with Jonathan Lethem) I'm Keith Hernandez, by Keith Hernandez, BookForum, Summer 2018
Purity, by Jonathan Franzen, BookForum, September/October/November 2015
Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years, Vol. 1, by Mark Lewisohn, BookForum, February/March 2014
Gods Without Men, by Hari Kunzru, BookForum, February/March 2012
Revolution, by Deb Olin Unferth, BookForum, February/March 2011
The Development, by John Barth, BookForum, September/October/November 2008
Tokyo Year Zero, by David Peace, New York Times Book Review, December 9, 2007
Zeroville, by Steve Erickson, Los Angeles Times Book Review, November 11, 2007
The Raw Shark Texts, by Steven Hall, Playboy, 2007
A Good War is Hard to Find, by David Griffith, New York Times Book Review, April 1, 2007
The Unknown Terrorist, by Richard Flanagan, BookForum, April/May 2007
Against the Day, by Thomas Pynchon, Los Angeles Times Book Review, November 19, 2006
Everyman, by Philip Roth, Playboy, 2006
Lost Joy, by Camden Joy, BookForum, Winter 2002
Plowing the Dark, by Richard Powers, BookForum, Summer 2000
Memories of my Father Watching TV and Monstrous Possibility, two books by Curtis White, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Fall 1998
Commodify your Dissent: Salvos from The Baffler, Edited by Tom Frank and Matt Weiland, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Winter 1997
City in Love, a novel by Alex Shakar, Cups, 1997
Purple America, a novel by Rick Moody, Cups #80, 1997
Man on Stage and Gould, two books by Stephen Dixon, Cups #79, 1997
The Mulching of America, a novel by Harry Crews, Cups #78, 1997
The Dream Life of Balso Snell and A Cool Million, two novels by Nathanael West, Cups #77, 1996
Marabou Stork Nightmares, a novel by Irvine Welsh, Cups #70, Spring 1996
Anarcho-Hindu, a novel by Curtis White, Cups #68, Winter 1996
Interstate, a novel by Stephen Dixon, Cups #63, Summer 1995
Reckless Driver, a novel by Lisa Vice, Cups, Spring 1995
Other
Publisher, editor, and sole author of the Adverteasers Irregular, a satiric zine (1997-1999).
Return to Other Work
Now Beacon, Now Sea, Catapult, 2021
The Fugitives, Simon & Schuster, 2016
Death Wish, Soft Skull Press, 2010
American Tempura, Nothing Moments Books, 2007
Believeniks! (pseudonymous co-author, writing as Ivan Felt), Doubleday, 2006
Trance, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005
Sound On Sound, Dalkey Archive Press, 1995
Anthologies
"The Renovation of the Just," The Nicotine Chronicles, Ed. Lee Child, Akashic Books, September 2020
"Interview with Sam Lipsyte," reprinted in Bomb: The Author Interviews, edited by Betsy Sussler, Soho Press, 2014
"Witness to History," (round table, with Maud Casey, Myla Goldberg, Karl Iagnemma) reprinted in Talk Show: On the Couch With Contemporary Writers, edited by Jaime Clark, PFP, 2013
“The Pride of Life,” reprinted in They’re at It Again: An Open City Reader, edited by Thomas Beller and Joanna Yas, Open City Books, 2011
“Death in the Age of Digital Proliferation, and Other Considerations,” reprinted in The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death,Ed. David Shields and Bradford Morrow, WW Norton, 2011
“When He Was Seventeen,” reprinted in More New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of the New York Times, Ed. Constance Rosenblum, NYU Press, 2010
“Dave Kingman,” Top of the Order: 25 Writers Pick Their Favorite Baseball Player, Ed. Sean Manning, Da Capo, 2010
Introduction to The Abyss of Human Illusion, by Gilbert Sorrentino, Coffee House Press, 2010
Contribution to Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak, Ed. Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser, HarperCollins, 2009
“Misapprehensions,” reprinted in A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years, Ed. Rebecca Wolff, Fence Books, 2009
“Julie Halo,” reprinted in New Standards, Ed. Jason Snyder, Fourteen Hills Press, 2005
“Organism,” contribution to The Future Dictionary of America,Ed. Jonathan Safran Foer, Dave Eggers, and Nicole Krauss, McSweeney’s Books, 2004
“The Ger Sheker,” Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers: Writers on Comics, ed. Sean Howe, Pantheon Books, 2004
Fiction
"Apparition of Danhoff," The Paris Review, Winter 2015
"The Great Ape," The Brooklyn Rail, September 2012
"The Cursed," Conjunctions, Spring 2012
“Our Prom Crash,” Fence, Fall 2011
“FAQ,” Gerry Mulligan, Spring 2011
“Unhappy Families,” The Literary Review, Winter 2011
“Stardust,” Playboy, August 2010
“Poem by Harris Conklin / Reply by Ivan Felt” (with Jonathan Lethem), Black Clock, Spring/Summer 2010
“The Pride of Life,” Open City, Winter 2010
“Mr. Pickwick Coathook,” Significant Objects, (http://significantobjects.com), October 2009
“Ventriloquy,” BOMB, Fall 2009
“Ever Again,” Tin House, Winter 2009.
“The Photographer Upstairs,” Conjunctions, Spring 2008
“Crepuscule With Mickey,” reprinted in Harper’s, March 2007
“Paper Confessions,” Esquire, 2007
“Crepuscule With Mickey,” Conjunctions, Fall 2006
“Among the Conspirators,” New England Review, 2005
“Misapprehensions,” Fence, Spring/Summer 2004
“On a Mistakenly Stolen Letter,” Other People’s Stories (http://www.otherpeoplesstories.com), May 2003
“Julie Halo,” 14 Hills, Summer/Fall 2003
“Condition,” Conjunctions, Spring 2003
“Memory Alpha,” Conjunctions, Fall 2001
“Heather,” The Baffler, Spring 2001
“Living Jackie Robinson,” Speak, Summer 2000
“Stalingrad,” Conjunctions, Spring 2000
“The Organ Grinder,” McSweeney’s, Late Summer/Early Fall 1999
“Lunchroom,” Fence, Fall/Winter 1999
"From Night Covers All," The Spitting Image, Fall 1996
"Roanoke," Private Arts, Fall 1996
"From Night Covers All," Cups, Spring 1996
"Ghost Talk," Private Arts, Winter 1993
Nonfiction
“Lucky Stars,” Moistworks (https://moistworks.com/home/luckystars), 2020
"When We Are a Wilderness," The Believer, reprinted 2017
"Dept. of Speculation," Bookforum, June/July/August 2016
On Wallace Markfield's To an Early Grave," Tin House, Fall 2012
“Stepping into Dad’s Prose,” Los Angeles Times, March 28, 2010
Interview with Sam Lipsyte, BOMB, Spring 2010
“Portrait of My Father,” Granta, 2009
“Death in the Age of Digital Proliferation, and Other Considerations," Conjunctions, 2008
Interview with Zachary Lazar, BOMB, Spring 2008
“When He Was Seventeen,” City Section, The New York Times, September 16, 2007
“Recommendation: Keith Waldrop’s Light While There is Light,” Post Road, 2007
“When We Are a Wilderness,” Moistworks, (http://www.moistworks.com), 2007
Afterword to The Abyss of Human Illusion by Gilbert Sorrentino, Golden Handcuffs Review, 2007
“Book One, Book Two,” Publishers Weekly, January 2007
Squib on black tie, Esquire, December 2006
“In Memoriam,” A Public Space, Summer 2006
“Michael of Arabia,” Blender, July 2006
On Jilted John and The Dead Boys, Moistworks, (http://www.moistworks.com), 2006
“Anything and Everything,” Powells.com, (http://www.powells.com/essays/sorrentino.html), 2005
On William Gaddis, Conjunctions, Fall 2003
“Reading B.S. Johnson,” Context, Fall 2000
“The Assault of Desire: Reading Coleman Dowell’s Island People,” Context, Spring 2000
"Musial and McCartney--Together Again for the First Time," The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 1998
“Flotsam vs. The Ulcer Diet,” Fence, Spring 1998
“A Sense of Speech,” Rain Taxi Review of Books, Spring 1997
"Nathanael West's Secret Sharer," Rain Taxi Review of Books, Spring 1996
"Specially Marked Packages," The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Spring 1996
"A New Kind of Road," an interview with Stephen Dixon (co-conducted with Alexander Laurence), Cups #65, Fall 1995
"Rock Novel Confidential: Why I Wrote One," Pulse!, October 1995
Book Reviews
Unfinished Business, by Vivian Gornick, BookForum, February/March 2020
(with Jonathan Lethem) I'm Keith Hernandez, by Keith Hernandez, BookForum, Summer 2018
Purity, by Jonathan Franzen, BookForum, September/October/November 2015
Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years, Vol. 1, by Mark Lewisohn, BookForum, February/March 2014
Gods Without Men, by Hari Kunzru, BookForum, February/March 2012
Revolution, by Deb Olin Unferth, BookForum, February/March 2011
The Development, by John Barth, BookForum, September/October/November 2008
Tokyo Year Zero, by David Peace, New York Times Book Review, December 9, 2007
Zeroville, by Steve Erickson, Los Angeles Times Book Review, November 11, 2007
The Raw Shark Texts, by Steven Hall, Playboy, 2007
A Good War is Hard to Find, by David Griffith, New York Times Book Review, April 1, 2007
The Unknown Terrorist, by Richard Flanagan, BookForum, April/May 2007
Against the Day, by Thomas Pynchon, Los Angeles Times Book Review, November 19, 2006
Everyman, by Philip Roth, Playboy, 2006
Lost Joy, by Camden Joy, BookForum, Winter 2002
Plowing the Dark, by Richard Powers, BookForum, Summer 2000
Memories of my Father Watching TV and Monstrous Possibility, two books by Curtis White, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Fall 1998
Commodify your Dissent: Salvos from The Baffler, Edited by Tom Frank and Matt Weiland, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Winter 1997
City in Love, a novel by Alex Shakar, Cups, 1997
Purple America, a novel by Rick Moody, Cups #80, 1997
Man on Stage and Gould, two books by Stephen Dixon, Cups #79, 1997
The Mulching of America, a novel by Harry Crews, Cups #78, 1997
The Dream Life of Balso Snell and A Cool Million, two novels by Nathanael West, Cups #77, 1996
Marabou Stork Nightmares, a novel by Irvine Welsh, Cups #70, Spring 1996
Anarcho-Hindu, a novel by Curtis White, Cups #68, Winter 1996
Interstate, a novel by Stephen Dixon, Cups #63, Summer 1995
Reckless Driver, a novel by Lisa Vice, Cups, Spring 1995
Other
Publisher, editor, and sole author of the Adverteasers Irregular, a satiric zine (1997-1999).
Return to Other Work