OTHER WRITING
Short fiction from The North American Review and The New England Review
Essay sampler: George Orwell's Hippopotamus
Read in the New England Review
On George Saunders:
On Teaching English in France:
Read in La Revue française d'études américaines
On Philip Larkin:
"Parody in Philip Larkin: A Trick Which Dispels Fear"
Book reviews:
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2024
– A Walk with Frank O'Hara by Susan Aizenberg in The Exacting Clam
– The Penult by Colin Gee in The Exacting Clam
– Even So by David D. Coster in The Exacting Clam
– What Did You Do Today? by Anthony Varallo in Dactyl Review
– Into the Good World Again by Max Garland in The Exacting Clam
– Thumbsucker by Kat Giordano in The Opiate
– Still Alive by L.J. Pemberton in The Exacting Clam
2023
– Drift by Craig Rodgers in Dactyl Review
– The Company of Strangers by Jen Michalski in The Exacting Clam
– Seven Steeples by Sara Baume in The Exacting Clam
– The Frozen Sea Within Us by Jonathan Harrington in The Exacting Clam
– The Lost and the Blind by Curtis Smith in The Exacting Clam
– I Want to Tell You by Jesse Lee Kercheval in The Exacting Clam
– Newborn by Agustín Maes in The Exacting Clam
– Shoot the Horses First by Leah Angstman in The Exacting Clam
– She Calls Me Cinnamon by Lane Chasek in The Exacting Clam
– Where Are the Snows by Kathleen Rooney in The Exacting Clam
2022
– Three Days by the Sea by Helen Mundler in Dactyl Review
– While You Were Gone by Sybil Baker in The Laurel Review
– Neither Weak Nor Obtuse by Jake Goldsmith in Full Stop
– The Land Remains by Neil Hamilton in Edible Communities
– The Secret Adventures of Order by Vincent Czyz in Full Stop
– The Four Humors by Mina Seçkin in Full Stop
– Beyond Repair by J.C. Todd in The Exacting Clam
– Three Sad Songs of the Maya Woman by Briceida Cuevas Cob (trans.
Jonathan Harrington) in The Exacting Clam
– Small Moods by Shane Kowalski in The Exacting Clam
2021
– Shapeshifting by Michelle Ross in Full Stop
– In the Field by Rachel Pastan in Dactyl Review
– No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood in Full Stop
– Lift Up the Stone by Jonathan Harrington in Full Stop
2020
– The Magpie's Return by Curtis Smith in Dactyl Review
– All the Useless Things are Mine by Thomas Walton in Dactyl Review
– Selling the Farm: Descants From a Recollected Past by Debra Di Blasi in Full Stop
– This Is How He Learned to Love by Randall Brown in Dactyl Review
2019
– Flashlight Girls Run by Stephanie Dickinson in Dactyl Review
2018
– Today is the Day That Will Matter by Debra Di Blasi in The Collagist
– The Surprising Place by Malinda McCollum in Dactyl Review
– Lovepain by Curtis Smith in The Collagist
– Everyone Was There by Anthony Varallo in The Los Angeles Review
– The Magician's Handbook by Grant Clauser in Atticus Review
2017
– George Saunders: Critical Essays by Philip Coleman and Steve Gronert Ellerhoff, eds., in Short Fiction in Theory and Practice
– Errata by Jacob Smullyan in Dactyl Review
– Schoolhouse: Lessons on Love & Landscape by Marc Niesen in Entropy
2016
– King Lear, Old Vic Theatre, London, Deborah Warner, dir., in Shakespeare
en devenir
– Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five: Bookmarked by Curtis Smith in
Entropy
– Concrete Carnival by Danner Darcleight in The Collagist
– Morever by Aaron Anstett in Entropy
2015
– Soul External: Rediscovering the Great Blue Heron by Steve Semken in
New York Journal of Books
– Her 37th Year: An Index by Suzanne Scanlon in Dactyl Review
2014
– The Inevitable June by Bob Schofield in Dactyl Review
– The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach in Dactyl Review
2013
– Tenth of December by George Saunders in New York Journal of Books
– Road to Nowhere by Józef Mackiewicz in Dactyl Review
– King Lear, Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Selina Cartmell, dir., in Shakespeare en
devenir
– The Miniature Wife and Other Stories by Manuel Gonzales in New York
Journal of Books
– Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, American Players Theatre,
Spring Green, James Bohnen, dir., in Shakespeare en devenir,
2012
– Home by Toni Morrison in New York Journal of Books
– Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks in New York Journal of Books
– Stripped by Nicole Monaghan, ed., in Dactyl Review
– interview about The Grievers with Marc Schuster
2011
– Montecore: The Silence of the Tiger by Jonas Hassen Khemiri in New York
Journal of Books
– We All Fall Down by Nic Sheff in New York Journal of Books
– The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak in Dactyl Review
– You Deserve Nothing by Alexander Maksik in New York Journal of Books
– The Architect of Flowers by William Lychack in New York Journal of Books
– The Double Life of Alfred Buber by David Schmahmann in Dactyl Review
– Desdemona, Royal Flemish Theatre, Peter Sellars, dir., in Shakespeare en
devenir
2010
– King Lear, Royal Shakespeare Company, London, Trevor Nunn, dir., in
Shakespeare en devenir
– Extraordinary Renditions by Andrew Ervin in The Collagist
– How To Survive a Natural Disaster by Margaret Hawkins in Dactyl Review – King John, Brussels Shakespeare Society, dir. by Stephen Challens, in
Shakespeare en devenir
– Vestments by John Reimringer in Dactyl Review
– Exploration of King Lear, Poitiers, Graeme Watson, dir., in Shakespeare en
devenir
– Love and Summer by William Trevor in Dactyl Review 2009
– The Cambridge Introduction to Emily Dickinson by Wendy Martin in Cercles
2008
– Sound + Noise by Curtis Smith in Cercles
2007
– Performing Glam Rock by Philip Auslander in Cercles
– The Art of Life by Paul Durcan in Cercles
– A Woman Milking by Marcia Slatkin in Cercles
2006
– Mr. Famous by Carol Wolper in Cercles
– The Last Titan A Life of Theodore Dreiser by Jerome Loving in Cercles
2005
– Don’t Ask Me What I Mean: Poets in Their Own Words by Clare Brown and
Don Paterson, eds., in Cercles