Essays

“Three Sets of Ten,” Knee Brace Press, December 2025
“The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be,” Arkansas Review, Issue 2, Volume 52, August 2022 (Selected as Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2023)
“Humble Figurines,” Talking Writing, Fall 2021
“Censorettes: The Women Wartime Censors Who Kept The Allies Safe and Uncovered a Nest of Spies in Brooklyn,” Crime Reads, November 2020
“My Life as Poet Laureate (of a Law Firm),” LitHub, July 23, 2019
“The Calls Are Coming from Inside the House,” Barrelhouse, Issue 16, 2016
“Piano Piece,” Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, January 2015
“The Same River Twice,” The Writing Disorder, Winter 2014
“Blue Suburban Skies,” Under the Gum Tree, July 2013
“Rondo,” Post Road, Spring 2011
“Against Bric a Brac,” epiphany, Fall, 2006
“Judged By the Archbishop,” Compass Rose, 2006
“A Box to Be Buried In,” The Laurel Review, Fall, 2006
“Why Baseball is the Sexiest Game,” Cosmopolitan, 1987, reprinted by Elysian Fields Quarterly, 2006
“The Family Language,” Elysian Fields Quarterly, 2006
“My Father’s Bartenders,” The Sun magazine, October, 2001

Novels
Censorettes, Stonehouse Publishing, November 2020
Cooder Cutlas, Harper & Row, August 1987

Poetry
“Allegiance,” The Twin Bill

Reviews
“Jazz June:: A Self-Portrait in Essays” by Clifford Thompson, November 4, 2025, On the Seawall
“Dust and Light: On the Art of Fact in Fiction,” by Andrea Barrett, March 11, 2024, On the Seawall
“Is There God After Prince?” by Peter Coviello, October 20, 2023, Chicago Review of Books
“Love and Industry” and “Voice First,” essay collections by Sonya Huber, September 14, 2023, On the Seawall
“Cary Grant’s Suit: Nine Movies That Made Me the Wreck I Am Today.” by Todd McEwen, March 7, 2023, On the Seawall
“Bright Unbearable Reality,” by Anna Badkhen, January 3, 2023, On the Seawall
“Animal Bodies,” by Suzanne Roberts, April 20, 2022, Brevity
“Hysterical,” by Elissa Bassist, September 7, 2022, Hippocampus
“The Good Poetic Mother: A Daughter’s Memoir,” by Irene Hoge Smith, October 8, 2021, Hippocampus
“Celeste Holm Syndrome: On Character Actors from Hollywood’s Golden Age,” by David Lazar, February 19, 2021, Brevity
“Try to Get Lost: Essays on Travel and Place,” by Joan Frank, March 9, 2020, Brevity