Excerpts from The Wanting

“Brave is a Decision” in The Rumpus

“The Nerve Switch” in The New Engagement
Essays and Criticism

“What Does it Mean to be Free? A review of Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom” in The Boston Globe

“Negotiating Patches of History” with Yoruba Richen in BOMB Magazine

“What To Read When You Want to Run Away from your Life” in The Rumpus

“My Son Loves Guns” in The Cut

“An American Revolutionary in Cuba” in Panorama

Review of Jonathan Franzen’s Purity in The Rumpus

“Jersey Sunsets” in The Believer Logger

“Research Notes: Sin Alley” in Necessary Fiction

“Polly Jean” in Memorious

“Is ‘Exoticism’ a Dirty Word?” in Cognoscenti

“The Burmese Dreams Series” in Post Road

“This Is Not a Cruise” in The Smart Set

“The Answer Was No” in Gulf Coast
Short Fiction

“Something Will Grow” in Prairie Schooner

“FLEE” in Bloom

“Heathens” in AGNI

“Shelter” in The Barcelona Review

“Untitled (coy, beached, salt)” in The Iowa Review
Selected Conversations

With Yoruba Richen at BOMB Magazine

With Cheryl Strayed at The Center for Fiction

With Dinah Lenney at The Los Angeles Review of Books

With Michael Carroll at Lambda Literary

With Frances Donnington-Ayad at Hippocampus

With Grace Talusan at The Rumpus

With Rick Moody at The Millions

With Jerald Walker at The Rumpus

With Garth Greenwell at The Rumpus

With Lidia Yuknavitch at The Rumpus