Selected Short Fiction

"The Volcano," Joyland

“A Last Chance in Whitefish,” Granta

“Henry,” Lit Hub, August, 2019

“Schenectady,” Granta

“Marrow,” Kenyon Review Online

"Going Underground," VICE Fiction Issue 2017

"A Natural Man," The Paris Review

"Vogel's Wife," Narrative Magazine

"Unanswered," The Iowa Review

"Objects of Desire," Narrative Magazine

"Sandstorm," The Paris Review

Selected Essay and Review

The William Trevor Reader, ongoing at The Millions

“The Subjective Mood,” The Millions

“Writing Sideways: Edith Wharton, the Postmodernists, and Social Satire,” The Millions

“Edith Wharton Will Teach You Everything You Need to Know About Naming Characters,” The Millions

“On Tastelessness,” Granta

"Craft Corner: The Millions Interviews Samanta Schweblin," The Millions

“Our Work and Why We Do It,” The Millions

“Writing the Present for the Future: White Noise Vs. The Mezzanine,” The Millions

“The Creative Compulsions of OCD,” The Paris Review Daily

“Caring Is Creepy: Ian McEwan and Machines Like Me,” The Millions

“Jernigan: The Last Unhappy White Guy,” The Millions

“The Importance of Giving a Shit: On Dreyer’s English,” The Millions

“Seven Books I Will Never Read,” Paris Review Daily

“The Horror, the Horror: Rereading Yourself,” The Millions

“Hard to Get: Books That Resist You,” The Millions

“Unreliable Unreliable Narrators,” The Millions

“How to Write a Bestseller,” The Millions

“Why Is This Story Being Told?” The Millions

“The Torture Box:  A Critical Look at Flannery O’Connor and Her Disproportionate Retributions,” The Millions

“On Semicolons and the Rules,” The Millions

“How to Live in a Dystopian Fiction,” Paris Review Daily

“The Panopticon:  John Updike’s Apartment Stories,” The Millions

“On Not Noticing,” Ploughshares

“Regarding the Em Dash,” The Millions

"In Defense of Third Person," The Millions

“Curtis Sittenfeld’s Unambiguous Sophistication,” Paris Review Daily

"[REDACTED]: A Brief Hate Affair," The Millions

"Chronicling Life’s White Machine," The Millions

"Joshua Ferris Builds Beautiful Machines," Electric Literature

“Sports and Narrative:  Looking for the Great Basketball Novel,” The Millions

“Zone of Strangeness:  On John Cheever’s Subjective Suburbs,” The Millions

“Writing Against Yourself:  Leonard Michaels’ Nachman Stories,” The Millions

“A Tree That is All Branches: Transit, by Rachel Cusk,” The Millions

“Liquor License,” Paris Review Daily