What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going

Everything You Say Is True: A Travelogue

Henry David Thoreau, The Journal

Herman Melville, ; or The Whale

Manifesto: New Aestheticism

Carving the Whale, The Believer, Sept. 2009, and
The Other Half of Moby-Dick, Quarterly Conversation, Sept. 2009 The "funny and fascinating" story behind ; or The Whale

15,000 Pages in Three Minutes, TheRumpus.net, 2009
A very fast speed-read through literary history

The Last Book I Loved, TheRumpus.net, 2009

"Apocalypse Then," n+1, 2008

This Is Something That Happened to Me Before I Hit the Big Time, Opium, 2007
500-word memoir, and start of my next novel?

The Peter Travers of the Marriage, Opium online
Seven-line story

What I Saw and Heard in Belgium, 2007

"Love Stories" (essay on the film Suzhou River), Film Quarterly, 2002

"The Timing of Mrs. Dalloway" (essay on the book and the movie), Women's Studies 28.4, 1999

"Table Talk: The Languages of Fiction," Threepenny Review, 1998

"The Wall and the Books," Variaciones Borges, 1997

Belgian Bees (unpublished)