a book i wrote

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Reviews: NYT, The Kenyon Review, The Millions, Electric Literature & elsewhere

Coverage & lists: Poets & Writers, Buzzfeed, Baltimore Sun, Publishers Weekly, Electric Literature & elsewhere

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some other things i wrote

Stuff I did so people would buy my book

Editorial Outtakes - American Short Fiction

5 Things I Wish My Wife Knew About Herself - Oprah.com

Book Notes - Largehearted Boy

An Unfunny Essay about Humor - The Center for Fiction

Belle Boggs and I chatted it up about illness narratives (Here are some other interviews, too.)

Fun stuff that’s hard to categorize

The “Welcome to Appalachia” editorial package at BA (featuring my road trip through Pittsburgh) was nominated for a 2024 National Magazine Award

A poem I wrote appeared in Matthew Olzmann’s 2022 collection Constellation Route

An essay I wrote appeared in The Best of Hot Metal Bridge

A short story I wrote appeared in The Best of Waccamaw

An interview I did with Laura van den Berg about noir

I wrote the foreword to an anthology of student work that contains the Internet’s absolute favorite poem by a 6 year-old

I guested on the Film Fest podcast, the Rare Bird Lit podcast, and TK with James Scott

The Washingtonian wrote a piece about the only cool thing to ever happen to me on Twitter

Essays & nonfiction

Polaroid Death Machine - The Georgia Review

What Happens After You Get Sober? - Harper’s Bazaar

Culinary Road Trip: Pittsburgh - Bon Appétit

#153 - The Low End Theory - RS500

In Desperate Pursuit of the Zero-Stress Job - NY Times

#346 - 3 Feet High and Rising - RS500

Say Uncle - The Paris Review online

Uncertain Certainties Bending Genre

From The Almanac of Modern Regret Everyday Genius

Detroit, 2011 - Sundog Lit

Gross Pointe Blank - Wig-Wag

Fiction

Rejuvenation Machine - The New England Review

In the Kitchen Where We Cooked Almost Nothing - Waccamaw

Reviews, etc.

The Shaking Woman - The Rumpus

Floating In a Most Peculiar Way - The Rumpus

Joe Meno’s Demons In the Spring - HTMLGiant