05/13: I wrote about how George Saunders’s fiction predicted all this.
04/22: A new short story in Granta: “The Smart House of Mrs O”
04/22: The Believer rounded up writers on why they keep reading.
04/14: Interested in writing speculative fiction? I have a new class up at Skillshare.
03/30: I wrote about beautiful novels where things disappear for Crime Reads.
1/31: A nice write-up of Tiny Crimes at Kirkus.
1/21: I wrote about Anna Wiener’s Uncanny Valley and the uncanniness of Silicon Valley.
-2019-
12/23: BOMB has a great round-up of writers (including me) looking back at the last decade in literature.
12/18: At Frieze, I took a look back at a decade where everything was fictionalized.
10/30: For Halloween, a mash-up of Invisible Cities and Dracula at Juked.
10/24: A new craft essay up at Lit Hub about using different elements to power fiction.
09/22: An interview with Rion Amilcar Scott in the new print issue of Bomb.
09/22 at Brooklyn Book Festival: Active Imagination panel with Robert Lopez, Shira Erlichman, Jason Starr, and Mahogany Browne. Brooklyn, NY
08/13: I interviewed Kimberly King Parsons for her fantastic debut Black Light.
05/22: Very excited to announce that Tiny Crimes has been named a 2018 Shirley Jackson Award nominee for best Edited Anthology.
05/20: New science fiction story, “Either Otto,” in Epiphany.
04/22: I wrote about insane ideas that made brilliant books.
04/09: I’m reading at Rough Draft Bar & Books in Kingston, NY.
04/04: A weird space opera short story up at Motherboard.
03/24: I’m reading at Karma Bookstore.
03/04: An interview with Mark Doten about memes, Trump, and the end of the world.
02/12: I have a poem in the new issue of Strange Horizons.
01/17: I review the (very good) Samanta Schweblin story collection.
-2018-
12/22: NPR quoted me a bit in this segment on lit mags and the closing of the great Tin House.
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.
