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.