ESSAYS:
“This Is.” Essay, Kenyon Review Summer 2013.
“Lost & Found: Leonard Gardner’s novel Fat City.” Essay, Tin House Issue 54, Winter, 2012.
“Between Disappearances.” Essay, Black Warrior Review Issue 39.1.
“Jimmy Smith and the Allure of the Vault.” Essay, The Threepenny Review Issue 129, Summer, 2012.
“\’ra-di-kəl\.” Essay, Hotel Amerika Spring 2012.
“Choice Cuts: Chicken-Themed 45rpm Records.” Photo essay, Gastronomica TBD 2012.
“(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.
“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.
“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.
“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 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:
“All the Requisite Billies: Dex Romweber.” Article, Oxford American, TK June 2012.
“The Reekers, ‘I Can’t Believe/Don’t Call Me Flyface’ 45.” Article, Get Bent, TK May 2012.
“Korean Snack Foods: A Tour.” Article, The Awl, May 14, 2012.
“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 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 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.
