Selected Fiction

• 2014

  • “What Kind of Bird Are You?” in The Iowa Review
  • “Placed Properly” in Lake Effect
    

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• 2013

  • “Last Great Year” in Confrontation
  • “How to Do the Heimlich” in Southwest Review
  • “Life in Earnest” in Gargoyle
  • “Tim Descending” in Carolina Quarterly
  • “Rebecca Rides” in Shenandoah
  • “Rust” in Lake Effect
    

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• 2012

  • ‘The Dog Is Not Your Mother” in South Carolina Review
  • “The Gift Shop” in Bartelby Snopes
    

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• 2011

  • “The Teacher” in The Collagist
    

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Books

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    • “I read this book with admiration for its remarkable thoroughness… and truly striking range.”
    •                               —Frank Kermode
      

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  • “These essays richly display… learning and wit… [and] offer enlightenment to anyone who lives a life in books.”
  •                                         —Stanley Fish
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  •  “The wise, shrewd and learned essays in this impressively refreshing volume… clear the tangled vines of much ill-humored and regressive academic palaver. It is hard to express the pleasure of reading this book.”
  •                                         —John Hollander