Essays

My Two Front Teeth: Reflections on a lifetime of dental drama
The American Scholar

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 (on Lucia Berlin)
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