SELECTED FICTION
- “The Good Building,” The Southern Review
- “The Pond God,” McSweeney’s
- “Notifications,” The Brooklyn Rail
- “From the Comfort of Your Own Home,” Roadmap (reprint)
- “The Last Serving,” Lightspeed
- “Hansel and Gretel’s Teeth,” Outlook Springs
- “From the Comfort of Your Own Home,” One Story
- “Cale and Stardust Battle the Mud Gobblers of Hudson Valley,” Lightspeed
- “Lady Whitmer’s Waterlogged Revenge,” Uncharted
- “Haunted Hills Community and Country Club,” F&SF
- “Re: The Devil’s in the Details,” Air/Light
- “Tawny,” Post Road
- “Don’s Volcano,” No Contact
- “Red Oil,” The Baffler
- “The Smart House of Mrs O,” Granta
- “Either Otto,” Epiphany
- “The Duchy of the Toe Adam,” Terraform
- “A Feeling Artist,” The Paris Review
- “What the Landlord Knows,” Washington Square Review.
- “Herzog Park Ranger,” The Believer (graphic novel excerpt, art by John Dermot Woods)
- “The Hair Wall,” Black Warrior Review / Boyfriend Village
- “The Island Cat,” LUMINA
- “Not Courteney Cox,” Jellyfish Review
- “The Abandoned Case,” The Scofield
- “Future Snacks,” TASTE
- “What We Talk About When…” Gamut
- “Moon Aches,” Buzzfeed
- “Good Boy,” Gulf Coast
- “Letter to a Young Man in the Ground,” Post Road
- “An American Infestation,” Terraform
- “Salt Dick,” PANK
- “Colony,” The Literary Hub
- “Things Left Outside,” Weird Fiction Review
- “The Room Inside My Father’s Room,” Catapult
- “My Life in the Bellies of Beasts,” VICE
- “Dark Air,” Granta
- “The Yellow Spark of Clarity,” NOON
- “The Supervillain Stalled in His Lair,” American Short Fiction
- “If It Were Anyone Else,” Pushcart Prize Anthology (reprinted from NOON)
- Two stories, Midnight Breakfast
- “The River Trick,” Unstuck
- “Can I See?” NOON
- “Monster Flicks,” Necessary Fiction
- “One or Two Afternoons,” The Collagist
- “Tufts of Black Hair Attached to Indeterminate Bodies,” Buenos Aires Review
- “And That Is How They Found Me,” Fairy Tale Review yellow issue
- “The New Game,” Everyday Genius
- “John Adams,” Melville House
- “Red-Faced Whistler, Emerald Tower, Rabid Wolfpack Motherload,” Tin House
- “Filling Pools,” BOMB Magazine
- Two stories, PANK
- “The Deer in Virginia,” Oxford American (reprinted in Oyster Review)
SELECTED NONFICTION
- “Yes, People Still Buy Books,” Slate (republished from Counter Craft)
- “The Year That AI 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
- Review of Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Chicago Review of Books
- Review of Joy Williams’s The Changeling, BOMB
- “10 of the Strangest Crimes in Fiction,” Crime Reads
- Review of Dino Buzzati’s Catastrophe, BOMB
- Review of Mary Robison’s Why Did I Ever, BOMB
- A tribute to the late, great Ursula K. Le Guin, GQ
- Review of Denis Johnson’s The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, BOMB
- “Good Writers Borrow, Great Writers Remix,” Lit Hub
- “10 Novels that Break All the Rules,” The Fold
- “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.
- Shortlist review of four books, New York Times
- “12 Books to Read After Binge-Watching Black Mirror,” GQ
- “Everything You Wanted to Know about Book Sales (but Were Afraid to Ask),” Electric Literature
- “Seven of the Most Memorable Towns on Earth (that Only Exist in Literature),” The Towner
- “A Baggie of Ice and the Human Condition,” Catapult
- “Follow the breadcrumbs: why fairytales are magic for modern fiction,” The Guardian
- “What Novel You Should Read Based on Your Favorite ‘Game of Thrones’ Character,” Men’s Journal
- “House of Cards Has Nothing on the Insanity of the 2016 Campaign,” Vice
- Review of The New and Improved Romie Futch by Julia Elliott, New York Times
- “Topography of Short Stories: Upright Beasts by Lincoln Michel,” The Guardian
- “The Ten Best Genre-Bending Books,” Publishers Weekly
- “The Ultimate Guide to Getting Published in a Literary Magazine,” Buzzfeed
- “Books with Beasts: An Animal-Filled Reading List,” Lit Hub
- “The Good, the Bad, and the Weird,” review of Haints Stay, Oyster Review
- “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
- Review of Windeye by Brian Evenson, Bookforum
- “The Grandmaster Hoax,” The Paris Review Daily
- “Art of the Sentence: Franz Kafka,” Tin House
INTERVIEWS
- 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
SELECTED POETRY
- “Another Tuesday Afternoon,” Strange Horizons
- “Olden Times,” Hobart
- “Afterschool Fires,” PANK
- “Drift Ice in the Foreground,” Harpur Palate
- Four Haiku, elimae
- “at the edge of every woods,” elimae
- “Consequences,” Opium
ETC.
- “Stoning Our Neighbors to Death Makes the Corn Grow High…,” satire, McSweeneys.net
- “The Canon of Fratboy Philosophy,” humor piece, McSweeneys.net
- “Classic Jokes Illustrated,” comic strip, Everyday Genius
- “Monsters of Modern Literature,” portraits, Vol 1 Brooklyn
- “Animals in Midlife Crises,” comic strip first published at The Rumpus
- “Critter Corner with Lincoln Michel,” humor piece, McSweeneys.net
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