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"The Renovation of the Just"

The Nicotine Chronicles, Akashic Books, September 2020

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"Apparition of Danhoff" 

The Paris Review, Winter 2015

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"The Great Ape"

The Brooklyn Rail, September 2012

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"The Cursed"

Conjunctions, Spring 2012

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“Our Prom Crash”

Fence, Fall 2011

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“FAQ”

Gerry Mulligan, Spring 2011

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“Unhappy Families”

The Literary Review, Winter 2011

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“Stardust”

Playboy, August 2010

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​“The Pride of Life"* 

Open City, Winter 2010

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“Ventriloquy”

BOMB, Fall 2009

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“Ever Again”

Tin House, Winter 2009

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“The Photographer Upstairs”

Conjunctions, Spring 2008

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“Paper Confessions”

Esquire, 2007

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“Crepuscule With Mickey”* 

Conjunctions, Fall 2006
 

​​​“Among the Conspirators”

New England Review, 2005

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“Misapprehensions”*

Fence, Spring/Summer 2004

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​“Julie Halo”*

14 Hills, Summer/Fall 2003

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“Condition”

Conjunctions, Spring 2003

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“Memory Alpha”

Conjunctions, Fall 2001

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“Heather”

The Baffler, Spring 2001

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​“Stalingrad”

Conjunctions, Spring 2000

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“The Organ Grinder”

McSweeney’s, Late Summer/Early Fall 1999

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“Lunchroom”

Fence, Fall/Winter 1999

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"Roanoke"

Private Arts, Fall 1996

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​"Ghost Talk"

Private Arts, Winter 1993

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​"Machine Stories"

The Yale Review, Summer 2026

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Big Chief, by Jon Hickey

New York Times Book Review, April 10, 2025

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The House on Via Gemito, by Domenico Starnone

New York Times Book Review, July 2, 2023

​​

Unfinished Business, by Vivian Gornick

Bookforum, February/March 2020

​​​

“Lucky Stars” 

Moistworks, 2020

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​Purity, by Jonathan Franzen

Bookforum, September/October/November 2015

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Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years, Vol. 1, by Mark Lewisohn

Bookforum, February/March 2014

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On Wallace Markfield's To an Early Grave  

Tin House, Fall 2012

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Gods Without Men, by Hari Kunzru

Bookforum, February/March 2012

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Revolution, by Deb Olin Unferth

Bookforum, February/March 2011

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“Dave Kingman” 

Top of the Order: 25 Writers Pick Their Favorite Baseball Player, Da Capo, 2010

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Interview with Sam Lipsyte*

BOMB, Spring 2010

​

Introduction

 The Abyss of Human Illusion by Gilbert Sorrentino, Coffee House Press, 2010

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“Portrait of My Father”

Granta, 2009

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The Development, by John Barth

Bookforum, September/October/November 2008

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“Death in the Age of Digital Proliferation, and Other Considerations"*

Conjunctions, 2008

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Interview with Zachary Lazar

BOMB, Spring 2008

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Tokyo Year Zero, by David Peace

New York Times Book Review, December 9, 2007

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Zeroville, by Steve Erickson

Los Angeles Times Book Review, November 11, 2007

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“When He Was Seventeen”*

The New York Times, September 16, 2007

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A Good War is Hard to Find, by David Griffith

New York Times Book Review, April 1, 2007

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The Unknown Terrorist, by Richard Flanagan

Bookforum, April/May 2007

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“Recommendation: Keith Waldrop’s Light While There is Light"

Post Road, 2007

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“When We Are a Wilderness”*

Moistworks, 2007

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Against the Day, by Thomas Pynchon

Los Angeles Times Book Review, November 19, 2006

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“In Memoriam”

A Public Space, Summer 2006

“Michael of Arabia”

Blender, July 2006

On Jilted John and The Dead Boys

Moistworks, 2006

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“Organism”

The Future Dictionary of America, McSweeney’s Books, 2004

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“The Ger Sheker”

Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers: Writers on Comics, Pantheon Books, 2004

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On William Gaddis

Conjunctions, Fall 2003

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Lost Joy, by Camden Joy

Bookforum, Winter 2002

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“Reading B.S. Johnson”

Context, Fall 2000

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Plowing the Dark, by Richard Powers,

Bookforum, Summer 2000

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“Reading Coleman Dowell’s Island People”

Context, Spring 2000

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Memories of my Father Watching TV and Monstrous Possibility, by Curtis White

Rain Taxi Review of Books, Fall 1998

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"Musial and McCartney--Together Again for the First Time"

The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 1998

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“Flotsam vs. The Ulcer Diet”

Fence, Spring 1998

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Commodify your Dissent: Salvos from The Baffler, Edited by Tom Frank and Matt Weiland

Rain Taxi Review of Books, Winter 1997

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"Nathanael West's Secret Sharer"

Rain Taxi Review of Books, Spring 1996

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"Specially Marked Packages"

The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Spring 1996

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"A New Kind of Road," an interview with Stephen Dixon (co-conducted with Alexander Laurence)

Cups, Fall 1995 

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"Rock Novel Confidential: Why I Wrote One"

Pulse!, October 1995

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*Notes​

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“The Pride of Life” reprinted in They’re at It Again: An Open City Reader, Open City Books, 2011

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“Crepuscule With Mickey” reprinted in Harper’s, March 2007

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“Misapprehensions” reprinted in A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years, Fence Books, 2009

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“Julie Halo” reprinted in New Standards, Fourteen Hills Press, 2005

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"Interview with Sam Lipsyte" reprinted in Bomb: The Author Interviews, Soho Press, 2014

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“Death in the Age of Digital Proliferation, and Other Considerations” reprinted in The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death, WW Norton, 2011

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“When He Was Seventeen” reprinted in More New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of the New York Times, NYU Press, 2010

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"When We Are a Wilderness" reprinted in The Believer, 2017

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