Short Fiction

"Scarlett"
The Literary Review, Fall 2014
"May, Monrovia"
Guernica Daily, October 9, 2014
"Boxwood"
The Common, Spring 2012
"The Finest Milled Cotton"
n+1, February 2012
"Krasnoyarsk"
AGNI Online, January 2012
"Waste Management"
Colorado Review, Fall/Winter 2010
Winner of the Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction
"The Work Boyfriend"
Philadelphia Stories, Spring 2010
Winner of the McGlinn Prize for Fiction
"Seven Brides"
Word Riot, October 2008

Essays & Ideas

"Amy Hempel's Powerful Brevity"
The New Republic, May 7, 2019
"It seemed right that I try to transform myself by writing it." 
​a conversation with Ross Simonini
The Believer Logger, January 8, 2018
"Shadow Worlds"
on Jennifer Egan's Manhattan Beach
The Nation, December 4, 2017
"The Slow Burn: Essays on Elena Ferrante"
with Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, and Jill Richards
Post45​, Summer 2015
"If you love love, you have to love doomed love too"
The Guardian, February 14, 2014
"The Tournament of Literary Friends"
The Paris Review Daily, July 29, 2013
"Literature's Fight Club"
Wall Street Journal, July 19, 2013
"Provincetown" on Stellwagen Bank, Massachusetts Bay
The Common, July 17, 2013
"Modern Athena" on Drosopigi, Greece
The Common, December 19, 2012

Interviews & Press

Writerly States (Video)
January 29, 2016
Quoted in The Millions
on novel-writing and visual aids
February 12, 2015
The Believer
"Influenced By: A Survey of Writers"
See: Davis, Egan, Franzen
January-February 2015
Fiction Writers Review
August 21, 2014
Quoted in The Atlantic
on writers and their spouses
April 8, 2014
The Gaggle
September 9, 2013
Bookmagnet
July 26, 2013
Bustle
July 23, 2013
"Writing About Place" (Video)
UPenn Kelly Writers House
April 12, 2012
Colorado Review  Blog
March 22, 2011

Selected Articles & Reviews

Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey
Philadelphia Inquirer, February 21, 2016
The Mare​ by Mary Gaitskill
​Philadelphia Inquirer, November 22, 2015 
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
Philadelphia Inquirer, September 20, 2015
On Josefina Vicens's The Empty Book
Tin House, Fall 2015
The State We're In by Ann Beattie
Philadelphia Inquirer, August 23, 2015
My Struggle, Book 4 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Philadelphia Inquirer, June 14, 2015
The Discreet Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa
Philadelphia Inquirer, April 5, 2015
"10 Unhappy Families in Literature"
Waterstones Blog, February 6, 2014
"Lorrie Moore's 'Community Life'"
Bookanista, December 2013
"Master Class" on Lynne Sharon Schwartz and Two-Part Inventions 
The Paris Review Daily, April 4, 2013
Blueprints for Building Better Girls by Elissa Schappell and I Married You for Happiness by Lily Tuck
Philadelphia City Paper, October 20, 2011
"New Tree-Free Submission Services"
Poets & Writers, Jan/Feb 2011
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Philadelphia City Paper, August 25, 2010
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
Philadelphia City Paper, June 16, 2010
"Return Trip: A Profile of Lorrie Moore"
Poets & Writers, Sept/Oct 2009
Dreaming in Hindi by Katherine Russell Rich
Bookforum, August 31, 2009
A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert
Philadelphia City Paper, June 10, 2009
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
The Believer, October 2008
Trading Dreams at Midnight by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
The Pennsylvania Gazette, September/October 2008
Happy Trails to You by Julie Hecht
Bookforum, June/July/August 2008
"Saving the Short Story: One Story from One to One Hundred"
Poets & Writers, May/June 2008
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
The Believer, February 2008
Varieties of Disturbance by Lydia Davis
San Francisco Chronicle, May 20, 2007
Finn by Jon Clinch
San Francisco Chronicle, February 11, 2007