09/24: Booklist gives Tiny Nightmares a star! “42 authors of both horror and literary fiction surprise, scare, and confound in this outstanding anthology… Highly recommended for all fiction collections.”
09/17: For Lit Hub, I wrote about realism, SFF, and rethinking the spectrum of fictional realities.
08/31: I have a new novel coming out next year! (More info here.)
08/11: I interviewed Elisa Gabbert for BOMB.
07/29: Kirkus gives Tiny Nightmares a rave review: “exquisitely crafted fragments of horror…fans of innovative horror films like Get Out and Us will have a blast.”
05/29: PW gives Tiny Nightmares a starred review! “Masterful . . . This carefully crafted and genuinely scary collection is sure to impress.”
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.
from Booklist: “42 authors of both horror and literary fiction surprise, scare, and confound in this outstanding anthology… Highly recommended for all fiction collections.”
