Short Stories

• “Family Brief,” New England Review
• “The Fountain of Youth,” Joyland Magazine
• “Queen of Heaven,” Electric Literature
• “After Life,” Electric Literature

Some Essays

• “The Graham Green Gambit: On Susan Choi’s Flashlight,” The Met Review
• All Great Stories are Realist, LitHub
• On Christian Wiman, Image Journal
• “All Classics Are Funny,” The Bulwark
• “Against the MFA Contrarians,” LARB
• “In Praise of Connie Willis’s Cinematic Universe,” LitHub
• “When the Machine Opts In to You,” The New Atlantis
• “Free for What, Darling?” Fare Forward
• “Circular Reading,” Dappled Things
• Radio Theatre: Art and Purity Culture, Mere Orthodoxy
• On Brian Phillips’s Impossible Owls
• Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is Always Relevant, The Millions

Fun Stuff

• The Big Read Cast—a podcast about books with my friend Bill Coberly
• Commonplace Bert—my books and random thoughts newsletter