SHORT FICTION
"Draft Day"
The Common, Fall 2019
"Scarlett"
The Literary Review, Fall 2014
"Boxwood"
The Common, Spring 2012
"The Finest Milled Cotton"
n+1, February 2012
"Krasnoyarsk"
AGNI, 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
ESSAYS
"The Elena Ferrante in My Head"
The Paris Review Daily, January 29, 2020
"The Slow Burn"
essays on Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels
with Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, and Jill Richards
Post45, Summer 2015
"May, Monrovia"
Guernica, October 9, 2014
"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
SELECTED REVIEWS
"Margaret Atwood's Dystopian Imagination"
The Nation, April 13, 2020
"Amy Hempel's Powerful Brevity"
The New Republic, May 7, 2019
My Struggle, Book 6 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Philadelphia Inquirer, October 18, 2018
"Jennifer Egan's Shadow Worlds"
The Nation, November 16, 2017
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill
Philadelphia Inquirer, November 22, 2015
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
Philadelphia Inquirer, September 20, 2015
My Struggle, Book 4 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Philadelphia Inquirer, June 14, 2015
"Master Class" on Lynne Sharon Schwartz and Two-Part Inventions
The Paris Review Daily, April 4, 2013
Dreaming in Hindi by Katherine Russell Rich
Bookforum, August 31, 2009
Happy Trails to You by Julie Hecht
Bookforum, June/July/August 2008
Varieties of Disturbance by Lydia Davis
San Francisco Chronicle, May 20, 2007
Finn by Jon Clinch
San Francisco Chronicle, February 11, 2007