Other Writing
Essays/Journalism
“Turtles All the Way Down,” The Common Reader, Issue 8, Winter 2017
“Visiting the Sixth Floor, Living in the Echo Pattern,” Dallas Morning News, May 23, 2017
“How Dallas Changed the Way Americans Watch History,” Dallas Morning News, May 22, 2017
“How Dallas Became ‘Dallas,’” Dallas Morning News, May 21, 2017
“Three Minutes to Midnight,” Guernica, May 1, 2017
“How to Survive an Atomic Bomb,” True Story, Issue #5, Spring 2017
“Picking Bones in the Badlands,” The Gettysburg Review, Spring 2017 (republished on Literary Hub, February 22, 2017)
“End of the Line,” Catapult, September 14, 2015
“Actions Louder Than Words,” The Common Reader, Issue 1, Fall 2014
“Open Ye Gates! Swing Wide Ye Portals! Part 2,” The Paris Review Daily, February 16, 2014 (republished December 24, 2014)
“Open Ye Gates! Swing Wide Ye Portals!”, The Paris Review Daily, February 14, 2014 (republished December 24, 2014)
“Lost and Found,” The American Scholar, Autumn 2013
“Bridge: End Play,” Tin House blog, February 6, 2013
“Dallas, Part 2: Up Close,” The Paris Review Daily, December 21, 2012 (republished November 22, 2013)
“Dallas, Part 1: From Afar,” The Paris Review Daily, December 20, 2012 (republished November 22, 2013)
“New York’s East Side,” The Home Observer, Spring 2008
“When the Going Was Good,” Absolute, September 2007
“My Other, Older Woman,” Salon, August 4, 2007
“Counter Culture,” I.D., June 2007
“Kid Stays in the Picture,” New York Observer, February 6, 2006
“Safe Design,” T: New York Times Style Magazine, October 9, 2005
“A Roof With a View,” Absolute, October 2005
“Freedom Rock,” I.D., May 2005
“Supreme Court,” Absolute, May 2005
“The Long Goodbye,” Absolute, April 2005
“One Man Show,” New York Observer, December 12, 2004
“Lives: Young and Very Inventive,” New York Times Magazine, November 28, 2004
“Thoughtful Gifts,” T: New York Times Style Magazine, October 10, 2004
“Stop Making Scents,” I.D., September 2004
“Noguchi’s Loyal Mistress,” New York Observer, July 18, 2004
“Ten Rivers to Cross,” Esopus, Spring 2004
“Hollywood Bratt,” Talk, February 2002
“Easy Rider,” Talk, December 2001
“Lynch Pin,” Talk, November 2001
“New York Lives,” Talk, November 2001
“Almost Famous,” Talk, October 2001
“Psycho Case,” Talk, September 2001
“Leelee’s Double Life,” Talk, September 2001
“American Graffiti,” Talk, August 2001
“James Dean Returns,” Talk, August 2001
“Not Your Average Joe,” Talk, June 2001
“Cranberry Queen,” Talk, June 2001
“Robert Rodriguez,” Talk, April 2001
“Off the Map,” Talk, March 2001
“Warm and Wired,” Talk, March 2001
“The Return of the Punk Ballerina,” Talk, February 2001
“Bar None,” Talk, February 2001
“The Ocean Club,” Talk, February 2001
Short Stories
“Sky-Stormers of the Llano Estacado,” The Southern Review, Summer 2017
“The Electric Battlefield Map,” The Southern Review, Winter 2015
“Kansas, America, 1899,” Gulf Coast, Winter/Spring 2015 (Winner of the 2014 Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction, judged by Andrea Barrett)
“Punk,” Epoch, Volume 63, Number 3, Winter 2014/2015
“Telref,” The Gettysburg Review, Spring 2014 (Awarded a Pushcart Prize, 2015; Selected by the New York Public Library for publication in its “Subway Library” program and included in the NYPL’s permanent digital collection, 2018)
“Reunion, 1938,” Epoch, Volume 62, Number 2, Fall 2013
Anthologies
“Ten Rivers to Cross” in The Esopus Reader, Esopus Books, February 2022
“Telref” in Love Stories for Turbulent Times: Loving Through the Apocalypse, Pushcart Press, February 2018
“Telref” in Pushcart Prize XL: Best of the Small Presses 2016, Pushcart Press, November 2015