Selected Writing
Essays
And I Never Looked Back: The Los Angeles Years of John Martin and His Black Sparrow Press
Los Angeles Review of Books
It’s Nice to Be With You Always: Remembering Neeli Cherkovski
Zyzzyva
Updike, Ms. Beattie, and Me
Fiction Writers Review
My Youth in the Shadow of Walker’s Point
Down East
What We Talk About When We Talk About What We Miss
Fiction Writers Review
Cowgirl
Down East
On Reading
The Art of Reading Andre Dubus: We Don't Have to Live Great Lives
Poets & Writers
The Problem of Author: On Not Reading Autobiography into the Writing of Andre Dubus
Fiction Writers Review
Stories We Love: The Great Salt Gift of Alistair MacLeod’s “The Boat”
Fiction Writers Review
Stories We Love: “River Dog” by Andrew Porter
Fiction Writers Review
Stories We Love: “The Wiener Man” by Tom Perrotta
Fiction Writers Review
Stories We Love: Two Stories and A Life
Fiction Writers Review
Under the Influence: Around the Campfire of Literature with James Salter’s Opening Paragraphs
Fiction Writers Review
Interviews
The Rebel from Helena: An Interview with Maile Meloy
Fiction Writers Review
In the Middle of the Space Coast: An Interview with Patrick Ryan
Fiction Writers Review
A Portrait of Maine: An Interview with Jim Nichols
Fiction Writers Review
To Overcome the Illusion of Our Separateness: An Interview with Simon Van Booy
Fiction Writers Review
He Was Just There for Me: An Interview with Lily King
Fiction Writers Review