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
2006
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
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
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.