selected writing
selected writing
nonfiction
Gian 2025
MKULTRA’s Terminal Experiments 2024
Antigravity and the Deep State 2024
In Praise of Email 2024
Jets and Trash 2023
The Hongshan Jade Controversy 2023
The Story of Autism: How We Got Here, How We Heal 2022
New Cosmologies 2022
The Partnership Before War 2021
"Funny Ha Ha" by Andrew Bujalski 2017
Final Fantasy III 2014
When I Moved Online 2013
How to Give a Reading on Mushrooms 2011
Relationship Poems 2010
Three Documentaries by Werner Herzog 2009
The Levels of Greatness a Fiction Writer Can Achieve in America 2007
Cho Seung-Hui's Killing Rampage 2007
Friday 2005
book reviews
"I Fear My Pain Interests You" by Stephanie LaCava 2022
"Nothing" by Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon 2013
"Honored Guest" by Joy Williams 2009
fiction
A Message of Unknown Purpose 2014
Jawbreaker’s Major-Label Album 2012
hikikomori 2007
Exactly What I Want 2007
Lisa Jarnot 2006
poetry
March 2024 2025
14 Poems 2023
Four-Minute Poem for Mal’s Wedding 2016
‘May 18 2014’/‘iPhone tweet-drafts I’m abandoning’ poem 2014
ugly fish poem 2008
i went fishing with my family when i was five 2007
hot amoeba ass 2006
the MFA in hamsters 2006
this emotion was a little e-book 2006
other writing
Book recommendations for Document 2020
Thing recommendations for The Strategist 2018
Book recommendations for The Week 2018
syllabus for my Sarah Lawrence class 2015
presentations/graphs/charts
The Contemporary Short Story 2012
"Kmart Realism" Contextualized 2010
interviews conducted by me
Riane Eisler 2022
Nicolette Polek re Imaginary Museums 2020
Kristen Iskandrian re Motherest 2017
Clancy Martin re Love and Lies 2015
Ben Lerner re 10:04 2014
Ben Lerner re Leaving the Atocha Station 2011
Noah Cicero re Best Behavior 2010
Joy Williams re The Changeling 2008