News
August, 2021
Preorder 2A.M. in Little America
My new novel, "2 A.M. in Little America," will be published May 10, 2022 by Milkweed Editions. It's available for preordering directly from Milkweed. Use the promo code LITTLEAMERICA for free shipping.
2 A.M. in Little America
June, 2021
Dora Maar Reading of Equilateral
A wonderful month at the Dora Maar House in Menerbes, France. We couldn't have our regular monthly salon this time, but here I am in my office, reading from my novel, "Equilateral."
January, 2021
Leyner Hume Gide reviews
A Times Shortlist review of three "experimental" novels by Mark Leyner, Andrei Gide and Catherine Hume.
July, 2020
Teddy Wayne Apartment Review
A friendship between two Columbia MFA students founders on questions of talent and privilege. My review of Teddy Wayne's "Apartment" in the Financial Times.
In Little America
A migrant looks for safe haven "In Little America." An excerpt from my forthcoming novel, at n + 1.
April, 2020
No Signal Area Perisic
A new Croatian novel, set in the postwar Balkans, draws sly parallels between failed countries and failed loves. Not unresonant reading in our own failing country. My NY Times review of "No-Signal Area"
February, 2020
Advice to writers
I was asked a few questions about the writing life by Advice To Writers
January, 2020
Philip Roth’s Plo Against Americat, After Trump
David Simon's thrilling alt-history HBO series "Plot Against America," seems especially prescient these days. But, as I write for Agni Magazine, Philip Roth's 2004 novel had a contemporary target: the Dems who abetted Bush's invasion of Iraq..
November, 2018
Trump Cleaners
My dad opens a dry cleaner in Trump Village, circa 1964. In the London Review of Books, a brief blog item.