Latest

When the Flock Changed (novel excerpt in Narrative)

Portrait of My Father (personal reflection at Granta)

After the Affair: On Jean Rhys and Ford Maddox Ford (correspondence with Alexander Chee at Granta)

What Would Jesus Buy? (review in Bookforum of Moreton's To Serve God and Wal-Mart and Luhr's Witnessing Suburbia)

Contributions to NPR's Books We Like

Conversations You Have at Twenty (essay, 2nd Prize, 2008 Narrative Love Story Contest; forthcoming in Love is a Four-Letter Word)

Selected Writings

Regarding the Insurance Defense Attorney (fiction in Eyeshot; winner of City College's Irwin and Alice Stark Short Fiction Award)

Luke (fiction in storySouth)

Post-Extraction (fiction in Swink)

Confessions of a Cradle Robber (nonfiction in When I Was a Loser, a Free Press anthology)

Wartime in Williamsburg (nonfiction in Mr. Beller's Neighborhood)

Selected Reviews and Opinions

Review of Lilian Pizzichini's The Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys (at The Second Pass)

Review of Claire Keegan's Walk the Blue Fields (in The New York Times Book Review)

Review of C.E. Morgan's All the Living (at The Second Pass)

Ten Novels and Stories that Would Make Good Movies (at IFC.com)

Review of Aleksandar Hemon's The Lazarus Project (in The Boston Globe)

Richard Price's Lush Life (in the Boston Globe)

Cate Kennedy's Dark Roots (in the New York Times Book Review)

Ellen Litman's The Last Chicken in America (in the NY Times Book Review)

Review of Alan Bennett's The Uncommon Reader (in the LA Times Book Review)

Send Up the Clowns (in The American Prospect)

Sean Wilsey's Oh the Glory of it All (in The Boston Globe)

William Lychack's The Wasp Eater (in The Washington Post Book World)

Jiro Adachi's The Island of Bicycle Dancers (in The Washington Post Book World)

Josh Emmons' The Loss of Leon Meed (in The New York Times Book Review)

Darcey Steinke's Milk (in Newsday; reprinted in the Chicago Tribune)

Maud Interviewed

Gordon Hurd interviews Maud (for Yahoo! Picks)

The Young Manhattanite Interviews Maud Newton (at Gothamist)