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  • 2021
  • “Real Talk (VII),” Harvard Review
  • “Stool Sample Giggle Fit,” Damnation (UK)
  • “The Whole Process,” The Rupture
  • “An Appropriate Dream,” Fieldnotes (UK)
  • “He Said He Didn’t Want Dog Shit on His Floor,” The Believer
  • “Twelve Steps Ahead,” MAYDAY Magazine
  • 2020
  • “Letters from Her Piano Teacher,” South Carolina Review
  • “The Volta,” Denver Quarterly
  • 2019
  • “Sleep Study,” The Sun
  • “The Parting Sea,” We’ll Never Have Paris, Repeater Books (UK)
  • “Thirsty,” Sublunary Editions
  • 2018
  • “Last Thing,” The Collagist
  • “Three Shorts,” New York Tyrant
  • “Two Unknowns,” Egress (UK)
  • “Real Talk (III),” Hotel Amerika
  • “The Gay Science,” Fanzine
  • “Le cose infantili” [“Childish Things”], trans. Mariana Calvaresi, Edizioni Black Coffee (Italy)
  • Interview with Matthew Vollmer, The Brooklyn Rail
  • 2017
  • “Post-its,” New England Review / Literary Hub
  • “The Itch and the Touch,” The Southern Review / Longreads
  • “Three Stories,” New York Tyrant
  • “Ideia para um conto (macaco)” [“Short Story Idea (The Macaque)],” trans. Caetano Galindo, Piauí (Brazil)
  • “Language on Vacation,” Fanzine
  • “A Vicious Cycle,” The White Review Anthology, Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK)
  • Interview with Khadijah Queen, Literary Hub
  • 2016
  • “Childish Things,” Bennington Review
  • “In the Middle,” Los Angeles Review of Books
  • “Dinner with Friends,” Juked
  • “The Cliff’s Edge,” Vestiges
  • “Notice,” Harvard Review
  • “Brief Bio,” Fanzine
  • “Unfit,” Heck
  • “The Real Evan,” The Rumpus
  • “The Truth About Death,” Numeró Cinq Magazine
  • “Reading at the Dinner Table,” Quarter After Eight
  • “How to Eat a Sunflower Seed,” Hobart
  • Review of Infinite Fictions by David Winters, Denver Quarterly
  • On The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector, The Scofield
  • On The Poet, The Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, A Wedding in St. Roch, The Big Box Store, The Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All by C.D. Wright, BOMB
  • On Proxies by Brian Blanchfield, HTMLGiant
  • Introduction to the C.D. Wright Tribute Issue, with Susan Briante and Carmen Giménez Smith, The Volta
  • Interview with Susan Daitch, BOMB
  • Interview with Dylan Hicks, The Brooklyn Rail
  • Interview with Casey Gray, Rain Taxi
  • 2015
  • “For This Relief Much Thanks,” Los Angeles Review of Books
  • “Advice Vis-à-Vis (Look it Up) the Remainder,” Heavy Feather Review
  • “Real Talk (XIX),” Arts & Letters
  • “Short Story Idea (The Macaque),” BOMB
  • “Sticker Chart,” The Toast
  • “Review of Franklin Sports Junior Equipment Bag (Black),” The Good Men Project
  • “Grave Exhortations,” The Rupture
  • “A Bunt,” Hobart
  • “Father–Son Combos,” Hobart
  • “Sunlight (Your Son’s), Fury (Yours), Shame (Mine), and Fatigue (the Additional Person’s),” Litro
  • “Tell Your Mother,” The Toast
  • “Running on the Treadmill,” Drunken Boat
  • “Four Stories,” The Scofield
  • Review of Itch by Steven Seidenberg, Colorado Review
  • 2014
  • “A Vicious Cycle,” The White Review
  • “The Old Man’s Song” by Pablo de Rokha, translated with Carmen Giménez Smith, Pinholes in the Night: Essential Poems from Latin America, Copper Canyon Press
  • “Syllogism,” Eleven Eleven
  • 2012
  • “Untitled” in Croatian translation, Libra Libera (Croatia)
  • “Huge Trouble,” Court Green
  • “Untitled,” The Official Catalog of the Library of Potential Literature, Cow Heavy Books
  • On The Fall of Sleep by Jean-Luc Nancy, Lit Pub
  • 2011
  • “Dead Poets Submission Service,” Evergreen Review
  • “From From Old Notebooks,” Fence
  • “Vija Celmins, Human Camera,” Burnaway
  • On The Crab Nebula by Eric Chevillard, Nailed Magazine
  • 2010
  • “Chekhov’s Ironic Pathos,” Glimmer Train Bulletin
  • 2009
  • “Trunk Carpet Spare,” No Colony
  • 2008
  • “Bad Numbers,” Glimmer Train
  • “Bennett’s Cheap Catharsis,” Post Road
  • “From Avatar,” elimae
  • On David Foster Wallace, McSweeney’s
  • 2007
  • “At the Core,” Memorious
  • “Could This Be Love,” Opium
  • Review of Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Selected Writings, Vols. 1-3, ed. Northcott, Ziolkowski, et al., Colorado Review
  • 2006
  • “Minus Five,” The Modern Review (Canada)
  • “Town & Country,” Tusculum Review
  • “To The Party,” Stirring: A Literary Collection
  • “Based on a True Story,” Colorado Review
  • Review of The Wavering Knife by Brian Evenson, Tusculum Review
  • 2005
  • “Appalachian Spring,” Land-Grant College Review
  • “Great Things,” Denver Quarterly

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