Publications

 

Fiction Online

• Best Friends Should Be Together (from Fun Camp) – Big Lucks
• Three Parables: The Two Comedian, The Woman at the Tree, The Missing Lines – The Good Men Project
• One Camper Per Deck Chair, Take It from a Vet, Laura Winslow and the Baffling Sincerity, and One Week (from Fun Camp) – Heavy Feather Review ($3 ebook)
• In Case of Emergency and Powers (from Fun Camp) – Corium
• The Different Thing – The Collagist
• And Understand This (from Fun Camp) – Route 9
• You, Tony the Wonder Horse (from Fun Camp) – DIAGRAM
• Pattern I Noticed, Complaint, and Nothing Says Get to Know You Like Ethics (from Fun Camp) – Dark Sky Magazine
• Perk (from Fun Camp) – Wigleaf
• All You First-Timers with Deadbeat Dads, Summer After Summer of Love, and Campfires: An Unprompted History (from Fun Camp) – American Short Fiction
• One About Circles – Everyday Genius
• Invocation, Suggestion, Chucky Bucky, Bean People, and Logistically, A Real Momentum-Wrecker (from Fun Camp) – Monkeybicycle
• Little Things, Something Sager, Parable of Me and the Adult Diapers and the Gift Basket, How to Know, and Richard (from Fun Camp) – Pank
• If I Was Officious, Quick Announcement Before Lunch, Every Evening, Skits, There Are Limits, Girls Stay Here, Boys Follow Me, We Love Fun Camp Yes We Do, On Constitutionality, and The Creative Use of Mealtime (from Fun Camp) – FriGG
• Think Fast, Everything I Know About Music, Concocting as to the Present of Outfromers and This is to Be a Safe Place (from Fun Camp) – notnostrums
• Remember to Breathe (from Fun Camp) – decomP
• Should You Rather – Monkeybicycle
• Too Many Subjects – Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens
• This Doomed Gift Before You – The Collagist
• Speak Up for a Treat and Thanks Brother Dave for the Kind Introduction (from Fun Camp) – Everyday Genius
• Peek Here Progeny (from Fun Camp) – Dogzplot
• Ash Mounds – You Must Be This Tall to Enter
• Basics (from Fun Camp) – matchbook ** A Best of the Web 2010 notable story and a Wigleaf Long Shortlist selection **
• The One to Tell the Parents – Pequin
• Lent Remembered – Ghoti
• Subway Imitator – Johnny America
• Eight Times in the Everywhere – Thieves Jargon
• Colossal Crimson Crop – Hobart
• The Canadians – NOÖ Journal
• The Cracks and Strains – Word Riot

Nonfiction Online

• Courtesy is Not a Word on the Road – The Weeklings
• The BP Oil Spill of Fashion – The Weeklings
• All Our Pretty Songs – The Collagist
• Notes From a Real Good Time (Family Camp Tour 2013)
• Song of the Week: Fiona Apple’s “Hot Knife” – Coldfront
• On Southwest’s Seat-Saving Non-Policy
• On Reading Nicholson Baker’s The Fermata in Public
• Boring vs. Interesting w/ Matt Salesses – Necessary Fiction
• 50 Essays in 5 Minutes
• On Mike Young’s story, “The World Doesn’t Smell Like You” – HTMLGiant
• On “Life is Good Blues” by Laura Veirs – Wigleaf
• The Time I Tried to Defend Jonathan Franzen to the Internet
• Best Inedibles Consumed, 2010 – Big Other
• On “Call My Name” by Aimee Bender
• On the fiction of James Robison – NOÖ
• Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day by Ben Loory – The Collagist
• The Last Book I Loved: After Man by Dougal Dixon – The Rumpus
• The Last Book I Loved: I Remember by Joe Brainard – The Rumpus
• Young Revolutionaries, a chapbook by Kennedy, Lacey, and Martin – NOÖ Journal

Censorship

• Lolita, Scrubbed
  

Humor Online

• Robotic Pitfalls in Contemporary Cinema – Defenestration
• Incredulous America (series)
• Burr & Hamilton Join My Radio Program – Mid-Continent Library
• Wit of Winston – Yankee Pot Roast
• Insatiable Decalogue – Yankee Pot Roast
• Invented Statistics (series)
• 25 Things
• Grandad Remembers the 2008 Presidential Election
• Excerpt From Commissioner Gordon’s Forthcoming Parenting Manuel
• Discussion Questions: The Idiot
• Discussion Questions: Animal Farm
• Discussion Questions: Lolita

Poems Online

• In my humble opinion, please have pain – New World Poems
• Global Widespread Panic – Global Widespread Panic

Interviewer

• Interview with Jensen Beach – The Rumpus
• Interview with Chris Bachelder, Part 1 – The Rumpus
• Interview with Chris Bachelder, Part 2 – GRC
• Interview with Michael Ocean – GRC
• Interview with Edward Mullany – Keyhole (archived here)

Interviewee

• Vol. 1 Brooklyn (Tobias Carroll, 2013)
• What Weekly (Adam Robinson, 2013)
• Invisible Walls (GameTrailers, 2013)
• DJ Grandpa (podcast, 2013)
• Cubed3 (Jorge Ba-oh, 2013)
• The Next Big Book Blog (Lori Hettler, 2013)
• The Financial Post (Matthew O’Mara, 2013)
• Puerto del Sol (Kelsie Hahn, 2012)
• The Collagist (Joseph Scapellato, 2012)
• Litbridge (2012)
• The Collagist (Marie Schutt, 2010)
• PANK Mini-Interview (2010)
• Boomtron (Brian Lindenmuth, 2009)
• Orange Alert (Jason Behrends, 2008)

Magazine Issues I Edited

• Dark Sky Magazine Issue 16
• Dark Sky Magazine Issue 15
• Dark Sky Magazine Issue 14
• Dark Sky Magazine Issue 13
• Keyhole Magazine Issue 11
• Keyhole Magazine Issue 10
• Guest issue of NOÖ Weekly
• Guest issue of Smokelong Weekly

Fiction in Print

• Three Stories: Her Mother and I Do, An Investment, and The Joy of Knowing – The Literary Review
• The Inaugural Jump – The Lifted Brow
• Contribution to Last Night on Earth, an apocalyptic anthology from So Say We All
• 10 from Fun Camp – Puerto del Sol
• Them at Their Worst – Barrelhouse
• Another Village – Mid-American Review
• Craft Hut (from Fun Camp) – Gargoyle Magazine
• My Turn to Wait – Quarterly West
• I Know Your Sting Still Stings But, Ulterior Roundup, I Know We’re Trampling History But, Come on the Hike, Complaint – Pear Noir!
• Bucket Day – The Normal School
• Free Time (from Fun Camp) – NOÖ Journal
• Every Mostly Great Man in the State – Mid-American Review ** nominated for a Pushcart Prize **
• Intake Until You (from Fun Camp) – Quick Fiction
• The Unfun Among Us, Fun Treatment Pedagogies I & II, Dangerous Approximations of Hilarity, and Flight of the Boring (from Fun Camp) – The Lifted Brow
• Early Riser, All These Hurts, Let’s Hear it For the Perma-Staff, The Quiet Cabin, and Roy (from Fun Camp) – The 2nd Hand (broadsheet)
• Hello Clone, I Will Say (collaboration with artist Lydia Conklin) – Western Humanities Review
• Down the Mountain, Three Days, Fourteen Hours, Sandra Exegetes, No Pets (from Fun Camp) – Hobart
• Intermediates, Apology + Opportunity, and Sure, I Remember Guns (from Fun Camp) – Nano Fiction
• Ice-Breaker and No Moms for Miles (from Fun Camp) – Saltgrass
• Hard Year for Everybody (from Fun Camp) – A cappella Zoo
• Our Friends Above – The Lifted Brow #6
• This Nun – Keyhole #9
• Preservention – Fourteen Hills
• The Conversationalist – The Madison Review
• The Canadians – NOÖ Journal

Was Online, Lost to Time

• Flight of the Conchords: Season One DVD – Daytrotter
• Progressive Review of Modest Mouse’s We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank – Daytrotter
• Stella: Season One DVD – Daytrotter
• The Lovely Sparrows EP, Pulling Up Floors, Pouring On (New) Paint – Daytrotter
• Progressive Review of Beck’s The Information – Daytrotter
• Feature Article on the short film, Father, You Sinned – La’s the Place
• Jackass: Number Two – Daytrotter
• Damien Jurado’s On My Way to Absence – Daytrotter
• On Paul Simon’s You’re the One – Daytrotter
• Talladega Nights – Daytrotter
• Shapes and Sizes – Daytrotter
• Progressive Review of Sufjan Stevens’ The Avalanche – Daytrotter
• Superman Returns – Daytrotter