OTHER WRITING
Short Fiction
Hello from Here
a short story in Literary Hub.
Long Bright Line
a short story in Virginia Quarterly Review
Waterborne
an excerpt from The Great Glass Sea in Guernica.
Once Was Dark
an extract from The Great Glass Sea in Granta Online.
So Long, So Lonesome
an extract from The Great Glass Sea in Tin House Online.
a novel excerpt from Columbia University’s Alumni magazine.
Good at Quiet
a short story from West Branch
Mirza
a short story from Narrative Magazine
a story excerpted from the novella “Ridge Weather” in Narrative Magazine
Salt Lake
a short story from Five Chapters.
A flash-fiction story from This Land’s Imaginary Oklahoma series.
Essays & Journalism
an essay in The Sun Magazine.
“The Ways in Which a Novel Can Fail Like a Marriage”
an essay on Literary Hub.
“Back in the USSR: Looking for the Russia I Once Knew”
an essay in the Lives section of The New York Times Magazine.
In Mongolia, the Skyline By the Steps
a travel article in The New York Times
The Summer that Ended All Summers
an Op-Ed essay in The New York Times
Out of Africa, the Wisdom of a Warrior
an essay in The New York Times
The Last Jews of Cairo
an article in Guernica
an essay in Granta about the land and people upon which The New Valley is based (along with a slide show of images).
an essay about compression and expansion in the craft of fiction.
an essay in playlist form -- a soundtrack to The Age of Perpetual Light.
an essay in playlist form -- a soundtrack to The Great Glass Sea.
an essay in playlist form -- a soundtrack to The Great Glass Sea.