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