12/04: I have a new short story in the winter issue of The Paris Review.
10/19: A bit of satire about Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,” Trump, and centrist punditry at McSweeneys.net.
10/16: A new short story in Washington Square Review: “What the Landlord Knows”
08/08: I wrote about “unlikeable characters” and Ottessa Moshfegh’s new novel for Chicago Review of Books.
08/01: The first pages of Herzog Park Ranger (my graphic-novel-in-progress with John Dermot Woods) are in the new issue of The Believer. (And also up online!)
07/15: My latest story, “The Hair Wall,” up at The Black Warrior Review.
06/05: Tiny Crimes is officially published today!
05/30: A very nice review of Gigantic Worlds at Tor.com.
05/27: The Wigleaf Top 50 short fictions 2018 includes my story “Not Courteney Cox” from Jellyfish Review.
05/18: Our new anthology, Tiny Crimes, is out on June 5th! Crime Reads has an excerpt by Amelia Gray up today.
05/17: I interviewed Rita Bullwinkel about her debut collection Belly Up.
04/18: I reviewed Joy Williams’s strange and beautiful The Changeling for BOMB.
04/03: Three “strange” items: I reviewed the remarkable and weird stories of Dino Buzzati at BOMB. At Crime Reads, I discussed some of the strangest crimes in literature. And at GQ I interviewed the directors of the crazy documentary Wild Wild Country.
03/23: My short story “The Island Cat” is in the new issue of LUMINA.
03/02: I interviewed Amelia Gray about being a novelist writing for TV.
02/27: A review of Mary Robison’s great fragment novel Why Did I Ever at BOMB.
01/24: A tribute to the late, great Ursula K. Le Guin at GQ.
01/16: A review of Denis Johnson’s posthumous collection (spoiler alert: it is good!)
01/12: I wrote about the joys of literary remixing for Lit Hub.
-2017-
12/13: A new, weird flash fiction piece in Jellyfish Review: “Not Courteney Cox.”
12/05: My Kobo Abe (slash Raymond Chandler) tribute story, “The Abandoned Case,” is in the new issue of The Scofield.
11/24: I wrote about some of my favorite novels that break all the rules.
11/02: I have a mouth-watering science-fiction cannibalism story up in TASTE’s fiction issue.
10/31: I talked to Alexander Chee and stole all of his novel writing secrets for The Fold.
08/25: Mexican crime writer Yuri Herrera is one of my favorite recent discoveries. I profiled his work at Playboy.
07/21: I have a new short story about an aging werewolf at Buzzfeed.
