Bibliography

Books, Stories, & Essays

Books

• Golden State, Bantam, forthcoming, March 2014  ISBN 978-0-385-34328-2
• Hum and Other Stories, forthcoming from Fiction Collective 2, 2014
• The Year of Fog  Bantam, 2007   ISBN-13: 978-0553385892
• No One You Know  Bantam, 2008  ISBN-13: 978-0385340144
• Dream of the Blue Room  MacAdam/Cage, 2003 (reissued in 2010 by Random House) ISBN-13: 978-0553386547
• The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress   University of Massachusetts Press, 2001 (reissued in 2011 by the author)

The following is a partial bibliography of stories and essays:

2013

• From the Gulf Coast to Ocean Beach, Coastal Living Magazine, June 2013
• How to Write the Multi-Genre Novel, Writers Digest, July/August 2013

2010

• City Brights Blog for The San Francisco Chronicle
• “My San Francisco,” The Guardian, UK
• “To the Bad Girls Go the Spoils,” Playboy Magazine, Singapore

2008

• “Logorrhea.” Best American Fantasy 2007. Ed. Jeff VanderMeer and Ann VanderMeer
• “Settlers in a New World.” Oxford American, August 2008.
• “On Accidentally Finding Your Way.” Glimmer Train newsletter, Writers Ask, May 2008. Read an excerpt here.
• “A Life in Pods.”The Kenyon Review. Spring 2008.
• “Milk.” Sex for America. Ed. Stephen Elliott. Harper Collins. Spring 2008.
• “Lucky Pierre.” Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex. Ed. Ellen Sussman. Norton, 2008.

2007

• “Hum.” The Missouri Review. Summer 2007.
• A Review of Stray, by Sheri Joseph. The Believer. Feb. 2007.
• “To the Bad Girls Go the Spoils.” Playboy, May 2007.
• “An Open Letter to Mark Burnett’s Production Assistant.” Bad Girls. Ed. Ellen Sussman. Norton 2007.
• “Putting Out” When I Was a Loser: True Stories of Barely Surviving High School. Ed. John McNally. Free Press. May 2007.
• “Logorrhea.” Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories. Ed. John Klima. Spectra. May 2007.
• “The Stories We Tell.” San Francisco Chronicle Magazine. April 2007.

2006

• “An Exciting New Career in Medicine.” Playboy, Feb. 2006
• “The Boulevard of Heroes.” Glimmer Train. Issue 60, Fall 2006.
• “The Great Amphibian.” Winner of the Mississippi Review Prize in Fiction. Mississippi Review, Summer 2006. Special mention in the 2007 Pushcart Prize anthology.
• “A Graceful Exit.” Blow. Issue One. Fall 2006.
• “The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress.” The National Literary Review. Summer 2006.
• “The Strange Case of Brad Vice: In Defense of a Destroyed Treasure.” (essay) The Oxford American. Winter 2006.
• “Lost in Beijing.” (essay) Lonely Planet anthology Tales From Nowhere. Ed. Don George. 2006.
• “Tagged.” (essay) San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, March 2006.
• “Getting Ready.” (essay) The May Queen: Women on Life, Love, Work, & Pulling it All Together in Your 30s. Ed. Nicki Richesin. March 2006.
• “In Flight.” Vestal Review.
• “The Man Who Could Not Forget.” Cream City Review. 30th Anniversary issue.

2005

• “Hospitality” Mid-American Review, Fall 2005.
• “P.S. You’re Mine.” Kudzu Christmas: Twelve Mysterious Tales. Ed. Jim Gilbert, River City Publishing 2005.
• “P.S. You’re Mine” Mississippi Review.com 2005.
• “In Search of a Beautiful Lie.: (essay) The Writer’s Chronicle, Oct. 2005.
• “Blackout in Ushuaia.” (essay)By the Seat of My Pants. Ed. Don George. Lonely Planet 2005.
• “From Somewhere Down South to South Beach.” (essay)Bookmark Now. Ed. Kevin Smokler. Basic Books 2005.

2004

• “The Hero of Queens Boulevard.” Glimmer Train. 51. Summer 2004.
• “Obedience.” Identity Theory. May 2004.
• “Oh, Baby!” Salon.com. July 21, 2004.

2003

• “Choose Your Travel Partner Wisely.” Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe 2. Ed. Sonny Brewer. MacAdam/Cage, 2003.
• “Ooooh, Tannenbaum!” Salon.com. December 11, 2003.

2002

• “The Valley of Beautiful Women.” (essay) Adventures in Wine: True Stories of Vintages Around the World. Ed.Thom Elkjer. Travelers’ Tales, 2002.
• “Propaganda.” The Writer’s Chronicle. 35th Anniversary Edition. 2002.
• “Down the Shore Everything’s All Right.” Glimmer Train. 41. Winter 2002.
• I Wanna Hold Your Hand.” Salon.com. June 26, 2002.
• “Following the Ice Line North.” (essay) 7×7 Magazine. Winter 2002.

etc.

• “The Girl in the Fall Away Dress.” Other Voices. 33. 2000.
• “The Colonists.” Exquisite Corpse. 10. Winter 2001.
• “Satellite.” CutBank. 52. 1999.
• “Fifth Grade: A Criminal History.” Virgin Fiction. Ed. Eugene Stein. William Morrow and Co., 1999.
• “Curvature.” Brevity. Spring 1999.
• “Mosque.” Belles’ Letters. Ed. Joe Taylor. Livingston University Press, 1999.
• “Propaganda.” The Florida Review 23.2. 1999.
• “This Is Not a Love Story.” Fish Stories: Collective Two. 1996.
• “The Last Bad Thing” Gulf Coast 8.2. 1996.
• “The Sound of Them.” Alabama Bound. Ed. James E. Colquitt. Livingston University Press, 1995.