BOOKS:
A Secondary Landscape. Chapbook, from Future Tense Books/Scout Books, January, 2013.
The Stoned Age. An eBook by Thought Catalog (The essay originally appeared in The Normal School Isssue 6, Spring 2011).
ESSAYS:
“This Is.” Essay, Kenyon Review Summer 2013.
“Leaving Tatooine.” Essay, River Styx Summer, 2013.
“Publishing What We Are Trying to Write.” Essay, Paper Dreams: Writers and Editors on the American Literary Magazine August 2013 (Atticus Books)
“Selling on the Street.” Essay, Tin House Blog May 21, 2013.
“Every Supper the Last.” Essay, Third Coast Spring 2013.
“Records of You.” Essay, The Rumpus April 17, 2013.
“What Is and What Could Be: Hank Mobley.” Essay, Conjunctions March 12, 2013.
“The Hollywood Subway: Against the Horizontal City.” Essay, Paris Review Daily January 28, 2013.
“The Business of Tracking Lit Mag Submissions.” Essay, Tin House Blog January 28, 2013.
“When It Was New: Miles Davis’ ‘So What.’” Essay, AGNI January 22, 2013.
“Unapologetic Vision: Miles Davis and the Lesson of ‘Sid’s Ahead.”’ Essay, Brick Issue 90, Winter 2013.
“Lost & Found: Leonard Gardner’s novel Fat City.” Essay, Tin House Issue 54, Winter, 2013.
“Grapevine.” Essay, The Threepenny Review Issue 132, Winter, 2013.
“The Thinking Man’s Filter.” Essay, The Rumpus December 6, 2012. (Republished and translated in Russian magazine InoSMI.ru)
“Between Disappearances.” Essay, Black Warrior Review Issue 39.1.
“American Thrift Store: A Photo Essay.” Essay, Hobart Novemeber 20, 2012.
“Writing With Miles Davis.” Essay, The New York Times “Sunday Review” section of print edition, October 7, 2012, and “Draft” series, Opinionator blog, October 9, 2012.
“Thoughts on Revision.” Essay, Necessary Fiction July 30, 2012. (Mentioned at the Brevity blog)
“The Original House of Pies: SoCal Comfort Food.” Essay, Paris Review Daily July 19, 2012. (Recommended by LA Weekly‘s food blog, Squid Ink, here, and LA Observed here.)
“White Out.” Essay, The Good Men Project July 19, 2012.
“Jimmy Smith and the Allure of the Vault.” Essay, The Threepenny Review Issue 130, Summer, 2012.
“Choice Cuts: Chicken-Themed 45rpm Records.” Photo essay, Gastronomica June 2012.
“\’ra-di-kəl\.” Essay, Hotel Amerika Spring 2012. (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
“(Be)Coming Clean.” Essay, Louisville Review Spring 2012.
“The Worried Life.” Essay, Southern Humanities Review Winter 2012.
“On Discovering CanLit: A Public Redress.” Essay, Canadian Notes & Queries Issue 84, Spring/Summer 2012.
“John D’Agata Is Not the Timothy Leary of Essay Writers, But I Do Like How that Characterization Sounds.” Essay, PANK April 2012.
“Pleasure Domes with Parking.” Essay, Paris Review Daily March 8, 2012. (reprint forthcoming in Society for Commercial Archaeology Journal)
“Antiquing in the Desert.” Essay, The Common February 22, 2012.
“At The Gettin’ Place.” Essay, Paris Review Daily January 2, 2011.
“A Reckless Autonomy.” Essay, The Smart Set October 21, 2011.
“Another Scorcher: How I Survive Scorching Phoenix Summers.” Essay, High Country News September 5, 2011.
“The Burden of Home.” Essay, Paris Review Daily July 13, 2011.
“World Around Us: The Shack-Up Inn.” Travel essay, The Lifted Brow (Australia) Issue 10, June 2011. (Republished in full, at Carry On, here)
“A String of Maybes: Speculating the Elusive Charles Portis.” Essay, Gettysburg Review Summer 2011.
“The Stoned Age.” Essay, The Normal School Issue 6, Spring 2011. (Republished as an eBook by Thought Catalog)
“Victory Garden.” Essay, Annalemma (web edition), February 2011.
“Ancient History.” Essay, New Ohio Review Issue 9, Winter 2010.
“Tijuana.” Essay, Monkeybicycle Issue 7, Summer 2010.
“The Music We Hate: Ariel Pink.” Essay, Maisonneuve (online supplement) September 1, 2010.
“Hey Cowboy.” Essay, Fourth Genre Issue 12.2, Fall 2010.
“Dreams of the Atomic Era.” Essay, Cincinnati Review Issue 7.1, Summer 2010. (A Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2011.)
“It’s Really Something You Should Have Examined.” Essay, Passages North Issue 31.1, Winter/Spring 2010.
“No Side-Saddled Pig.” Essay, Big Muddy Issue 9.2, Spring 2010.
“Language Barriers and Other Souvenirs.” Essay, Baltimore Review Volume XIV, Number 1, Winter-Spring 2010.
“Cupid Carries a Switch.” Essay, Gargoyle Issue 55 2010.
“The Stigma of Synth: My Secret Life With Depeche Mode.” Essay, Fugue Issue 35, Winter-Spring 2009. (Republished on Gawker October, 2012, and in PopMatters, January, 2011.)
“Land Speculation.” Essay, North American Review January-February 2010.
“Tragedy of the Commons.” Essay, Alligator Juniper 2009.
“The Last Book I Loved: Barry Hannah’s Ray.” Essay, TheRumpus.com September 8th, 2009.
“Chow Chow: Recycling Never Tasted So Good.” Essay, Alimentum: The Literature of Food Issue 8 2009.
“Review of New Food: Chinese Nitro Reproduction Sweet Potatoes.” Essay, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency2008.
“San Joaquin Fever: Journal of an Unlikely Obsession.” Essay, High Desert Journal Issue 8, October 2008.
“P-town Diary: Book Affairs.” Essay, Portland Monthly October 2008.
“Shades of Me: I, the Contributor Bio, Turn 100 Too.” Satire, Mississippi Review (print edition) vol. 36.3, Fall 2008, special issue, “The Literary Magazine at 100.”
“Tillage.” Essay, Saranac Review Issue 4, Fall 2008.
“The Mice of Manhattan.” Essay, Bayou Magazine Issue 50, Fall 2008, first place 2008 Nonfiction Contest.
“An Inspired Stasis.” Essay, Potomac Review Issue 44, Fall 2008.
“The Street Hierarchy.” Essay, High Country News September 2008 Essay/Reading Issue.
“The Amphibian Heart.” Essay, High Country News vol. 40, issue10, May 26 2008.
“Sharing Vectors with Jesse Lee.” Essay, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood March 10 2008.
“Good Grease: Greensboro’s Lively Homage to a Dead Franchise.” Essay, The Dead Mule January 16 2008.
“The San Luis Creek Rock ’N Roll Rec Area.” Travel essay, The Rambler Jan/Feb 2008.
“The Ducks of Santa Nella.” Essay, Hobart August, 2006.
ARTICLES & POSTS:
“Cameron’s Books and the Used Magazine Trade.” Article, Virginia Quarterly Review Blog, May 17, 2013.
“A Tour of Hollywood’s Movie Ranches.” Post, Virginia Quarterly Review Blog, April 5, 2013.
“The King Eddy Saloon and the Issue of Authenticity.” Article, Virginia Quarterly Review Blog, January 11, 2013. (Mentioned by Andrew Sullivan at The Daily Beast.)
“All the Requisite Billies: The Untold Legend of Dex Romweber.” Article, Oxford American, June 11 2012.
“The Reekers, ‘I Can’t Believe/Don’t Call Me Flyface’ 45.” Article, Get Bent, June 6 2012.
“Korean Snack Foods: A Tour.” Article, The Awl, May 14, 2012.
“Searching for Literary Sasquatch, the Elusive Narrative Voice.” Article, The Collagist, July 15, 2012.
“Rob Vasquez: One of the Northwest’s Most Talented and Unknown Rock & Roll Guitarists.” Article, my bloggy blog, April 16, 2012. (Shorter version republished at Get Bent!)
“My Maple Coma: In Praise of the Canadian Butter Tart.” Article, Portland Farmers Market blog, April 5, 2012.
“For Pages and Pages: Truth and the Olympian Quotations of Joseph Mitchell.” Brevity blog, April 2, 2012, and posted here.
“Reverb 10,000: The Story of The Two Best Instrumental Rock Records No One’s Ever Heard Of.” Article, Yeti Issue 12, December 2011. (Includes an unreleased Tiki Men track on a 7″)
“The New Quarterly‘s Kim Jernigan on Canadian essay writing.” Q&A, Iowa Review Blog, December 28, 2011.
“A Bag Isn’t Just a Bag.” Guernica, October 18, 2011.
“Q&A: Calvin Trillin.” Portland Mercury September 22, 2011.
“Asked & Answered: Sean Patrick Maylone.” Q&A, T: The New York Times Style Magazine August 10, 2011.
“Time For Book Publishers to Fight Dirty.” Op-ed, Chicago Tribune August 4, 2011.
“Impact Absorption Roll.” Schematic, DIAGRAM 11.1.
“Practical Writer: The Truth About Literary Nepotism.” Article, Poets & Writers May/June 2009 Issue.
“Survive This: Wet Clothes.” Article, Backpacker September 2008.
“All Over the Map: Book It.” Article, US Airways August 2008.
“Speaking of Texas: the Brazos Indian Reservation.” Column, Texas Highways July 2008.
“All Over the Map: Cowboy Way.” Article, US Airways July 2008.
“Danger Signs: Itchy Plants.” Article, Backpacker June 2008.
“Notebook: Hiking the Texas Barbecue Trail.” Article, Men’s Journal June 2008.
“All Over the Map: Ancient Art.” Article, US Airways June 2008.
“Danger Signs: Hiking a Burn Zone.” Article, Backpacker May 2008.
“A Japanese Whisky Primer: Highland, Lowland, Hokkaido?” Feature article, Chow April 4, 2008.
“Literary Spotlight: 42opus.” Article, The Writer March 2008.
“Speaking of Texas: Dixieland Chow Chow.” Column, Texas Highways January 2008.
“Bestill My Beating Frog Heart” and “One Mammal’s Poop Is Another’s Coffee.” Columns, Chow 2007 Year in Food, late December 2007.
“Meat Puppets: On Your Feet.” Feature article, Harp July/August 2007.
“Line By Line.” Feature profile, Sacramento News & Review March 8, 2007.
HTMLGIANT posts here, here and here, too.
Portland Farmers Market posts here (Spring), here (Christmas tamales), here Canadian butter tarts), here (breakfast pie), here (squash), and here (plums/pears).
BOOK REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS & SHORT FICTION:
Review of Nick Flynn’s The Reenactments. Portland Mercury February 2013
Interview with me at Swallow Food, part one, and part two. August 21, 2012.
Interview with me at The Collagist. August 17, 2012.
Review of Craig Taylor’s Londoners. HTMLGIANT March 5, 2012.
Review of John Jeremiah Sullivan’s Pulphead: Essays. Portland Mercury November, 2011.
“Climb That Mountain.” Audio interview of a hitchhiking kid, The Collagist, October 2011.
Excerpt from my novel, “Run Chicken Run.” storySouth, Issue 32, Fall 2011.
Review of Mark Yarm’s Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge. Paste, September 12, 2011.
“The Final Lyrics Sketched by a Nashville Song Writer Who Lost His Mind Constructing Songs From Clichés.” Short story, Barrelhouse (web edition) September 2009.
“Try Mailing This to Alpha Centauri.” Short story, Front Porch Journal Issue 11, June 2009. (Nominated for storySouth’s 2009 Million Writers Award)
Capsule book reviews of Larry McMurtry’s In a Narrow Grave and John McPhee’s the Pine Barrons. Fourth Genre Fall/Winter 2008.
“Interview with Steve Almond.” Glimmer Train Issue 65 Winter 2007/8.
Reviews of John Graves, Writer and Antonio’s Gun and Delfino’s Dream. The Bloomsbury Review July/August 2007.
Review of Unnatural Landscapes. High Country News May 14, 2007.
“An Interview With Stacey Richter.” Portland Review Vol. 5 No. 3, Spring 2007.
“Scooter Freaks, Chicken Fat, and Trashbearing Nudists: Brock Clarke’s Literary Warp Zone.” South Carolina Review Vol. 39 No. 2 Spring 2007.
INTERVIEW SERIES WITH PORTLAND, OREGON HOMELESS PEOPLE:
“Climb That Mountain.” Audio interview of a hitchhiking kid, The Collagist, October 2011.
“Just Wander Around: Eddie.” Audio/text interview, Better: Culture & Lit, Issue 1 Fall/Winter 2012.
“Josh: I Like Free Things, Part I and Part II.” Curbside Splendor, August 2012.
“We Have a lot of Resources, and a lot of Drag Queens: Kevin, Shelly, and Greg.” Curbside Splendor, September 2012.
“You Know, Like–I Don’t Know: Casper.” Curbside Splendor, September 2012.
“My Face Is a Mirror. Look At it. You Will See Yourself: Terry.” Curbside Splendor, September 2012.
“Just Stuck on This Corner for the Time Being: Elizabeth.” Curbside Splendor, September 2012.
“That Got Totaled, and That Was the End of That: 25-Year Old Addict.” Curbside Splendor, October 2012.
The series was mentioned in the Portland Mercury.
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