Stories
“The Moral Equation,” Works Progress
“Brain in a Jar,” No Contact
“Seagull,” Denver Quarterly(reprinted in Joyland)
“Doom Mood,” 7×7, collaboration with visual artist Jerry Byrd
“Spooky Action at a Distance,” Electric Literature
“Contract,” Literary Hub
“Honeymoon,” Joyland
“Moonless,” Guernica
“The Bilingual School,” The Toast
“Submission Attack,” Tin House
“My Other Car Drives Itself,” The Kenyon Review
“The Sadness of Tycho Brahe’s Moose,” The American Reader
“The Last Word,” Tikkun
“The Dialogue of Dogs,” Nat. Brut
“Vicissitudes, CA,” New England Review
“The Fourth Man,” TriQuarterly
“All of the Arctic Explorers,” Joyland
“The Beast of Marriage,” Tin House
Essays & Interviews
“Writing the Kaleidoscope,” Los Angeles Review of Books
Interview with Jackson Bliss
“A Visit from the President,” TriQuarterly
Personal essay about Barack Obama’s visit to Capital University
“You Are Being Watched,” Los Angeles Review of Books
Book review of Patrick Flanery’s “I Am No One”
“The Failure of Language and a Dream of the West,” Electric Literature
Interview with Bonnie Nadzam
“Dirty Laundry,” Catapult
Personal essay about surveillance culture
“Everything is Real,” Hobart
Interview with Miles Klee
“We Are Being Watched,” Literary Hub
Introduction to Watchlist: 32 Stories by Persons of Interest
“Research Notes,” Necessary Fiction
Essay about presidential assassin Charles Guiteau
“Upright Beasts,” Full-Stop
Book review of Lincoln Michel’s “Upright Beasts”
“Shoot the Moon,” The Quivering Pen
Craft essay about the art of editing
“We Are the Olfanauts,” Electric Literature
Introduction to Deji Bryce Olukotun’s story “We Are the Olfanauts”
“Limits to Knowing,” Los Angeles Review of Books
Book review of Haruki Murakamis “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Wandering”
“Broadening My Mind,” Tin House
Craft essay about Flann O’Brien’s “The Third Policeman”
