SELECTED ESSAYS
- “Yes, People Still Buy Books,” Slate (republished from Counter Craft)
- “The Year that A.I. Came for Culture,” The New Republic
- “Serious Playfulness in Charles Yu’s ‘Interior Chinatown,'” Alta
- “Everything Everywhere All in One Novel,” Esquire
- “The Pulpy, Rollicking, Resonant Early Sci-Fi of John Wyndham,” Lit Hub (reprint of introduction to Modern Library edition of Stowaway to Mars)
- “The Future in the Flesh: Why Cyberpunk Can’t Forget the Body,” Uncanny
- “Why Is Baseball the Most Literary of Sports?” Lit Hub
- “Why Noir and Science Fiction Are Still a Perfect Pairing,” Crime Reads
- “In Defense of Labels: On Genre as a Literary Conversation,” Lit Hub
- “David Lynch’s Dune Kept Science Fiction Cinema Strange,” Tor.com
- “2020 Is One Great Big George Saunders Story,” InsideHook
- “The Decade Everything Was Fictionalized,” Frieze
- “On the Many Different Engines That Power a Short Story,” Lit Hub
- “The Weird World of Shakespeare Conspiracy Theories,” InsideHook
- “Do Writers Really Steal? On Plagiarism and Publishing,” Lit Hub
- A tribute to the late, great Ursula K. Le Guin, GQ
- “Good Writers Borrow, Great Writers Remix,” Lit Hub
- “Mechanical Minds,” MacGuffin No. 5
- “Meet Yuri Herrera, the Mexican Crime Novelist Elevating the Drug War Into Myth.” Playboy
- “The Syrian Exile Who Went from Depressed Cabbie to Celebrated Writer,” Vice
- “Denis Johnson Was a Writer for the Weirdos in the World,” Playboy.
- “Everything You Wanted to Know about Book Sales (but Were Afraid to Ask),” Electric Literature
- “When Popular Fiction Isn’t Popular,” Electric Literature
- “A Baggie of Ice and the Human Condition,” Catapult
- “Lit Mag Submissions 101: How, When, and Where to Send Your Work,” Electric Literature
- “Everything You Wanted to Know About Book Sales (But Where Afraid To Ask),” Electric Literature
- “Follow the breadcrumbs: why fairytales are magic for modern fiction,” The Guardian
- “House of Cards Has Nothing on the Insanity of the 2016 Campaign,” Vice
- “Topography of Short Stories: Upright Beasts by Lincoln Michel,” The Guardian
- “The Ultimate Guide to Getting Published in a Literary Magazine,” Buzzfeed
- “Vocabulary of Fear,” an essay on horror fiction, The Masters Review
- “The Future of the Future of Books,” Buzzfeed
- “Shirley Jackson’s Haunting Final Novel,” Flavorwire
- “Lush Rot,” Guernica
- “The Grandmaster Hoax,” The Paris Review Daily
- “Art of the Sentence: Franz Kafka,” Tin House
INTERVIEWS
- Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, BOMB
- Joshua Cohen, Frieze
- Karin Tidbeck, BOMB
- George Saunders, InsideHook
- Elisa Gabbert, BOMB
- Rion Amilcar Scott, BOMB
- Kimberly King Parsons, BOMB
- Mark Doten, BOMB
- Armie Hammer, Esquire Italia
- Rita Bullwinkel, BOMB
- Maclain and Chapman Way, GQ
- Amelia Gray, The Fold
- Mo Willems, The Fold
- Alexander Chee, The Fold
- Gabe Hudson, Rolling Stone
- Alissa Nutting, Vice
- Osama Alomar, Vice
- Chris Bachelder, National Book Foundation
- Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, Google Play
- Joy Williams, Vice
- Victor LaValle (part 2), Electric Literature
- Victor LaValle, Vice
- Richard Hell, Vice
- David Cross, Vice
- Emily St. John Mandel, National Book Foundation
- Jonathan Lethem, Buzzfeed
- Jeff VanderMeer, Buzzfeed
- Laura van den Berg, Vice
- Jack Handey, Vice
- Sam Lipstye, Bookforum
- Sam Lipstye, Gigantic
BOOK REVIEWS
- Burn Man by Mark Anthony Jarman, New York Times
- Do You Remember Being Born? by Sean Michaels, New York Times
- Ascension by Nicholas Binge, New York Times
- Saha by Cho Nam-Joo, New York Times
- How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu, New York Times
- The Trees by Perceval Everett, Biblioracle
- Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener, InsideHook
- Overthrow by Caleb Crain, Book Post
- Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin, BOMB
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh, Chicago Review of Books
- The Changeling by Joy Williams, BOMB
- Catastrophe by Dino Buzzati, BOMB
- Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison, BOMB
- The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson, BOMB
- Shortlist review of four books, New York Times
- The New and Improved Romie Futch by Julia Elliott, New York Times
- Haints Stay by Colin Winnette, Oyster Review
- Windeye by Brian Evenson, Bookforum
- The Green Child by Herbert Read, Tin House
- How to Sell by Clancy Martin, Bookforum
TV AND FILM REVIEWS
LISTS
- “The 10 Strangest Dystopias,” Publishers Weekly
- “10 Insane Ideas that Made Brilliant Books,” Inside Hook
- “10 of the Strangest Crimes in Fiction,” Crime Reads
- “10 Novels that Break All the Rules,” The Fold
- “12 Books to Read After Binge-Watching Black Mirror,” GQ
- “Seven of the Most Memorable Towns on Earth (that Only Exist in Literature),” The Towner
- “What Novel You Should Read Based on Your Favorite ‘Game of Thrones’ Character,” Men’s Journal
- “The Ten Best Genre-Bending Books,” Publishers Weekly
- “Books with Beasts: An Animal-Filled Reading List,” Lit Hub
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