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net Selected Publications

Washington Post, October 17, 2012, book review: What it Means to be a Man in Modern America. Tamarind, October 2012, poem: Horizon. Brooklyn Magazine (online), September 20, 2012, essay: Why I Hate Brooklyn Lit: A Dissent. Washington Post, August 15, 2012, book review: Unearthing the Roots of Black Music. The L Magazine, August 1, 2012, book review: Dennis Nurskes A Night in Brooklyn. Washington Post, July 29, 2012, book review: The Complicated and Crucial Job of Being a Dad. Washington Post, May 30, 2012, book review: A Troubled Son Descends Into Hatred and Violence. Word Fountain, Spring 2012, poem: Insomnia. Washington Post, April 11, 2012, book review: Short-story Writers who are Masters of the Bizarre. Log 24, Winter - Spring 2012, essay / review: Dwight Macdonald and the Idea of Cultural Criticism. Washington Post, March 14, 2012, book review: On the Lam in a Dark Future. The L Magazine, December 7, 2011, book review: Once, by Meghan O'Rourke. Tamarind, October 2011, poem: "Patrick in Bellevue." Washington Post, September 14, 2011, book review: "A Family Wounded by Son's Shooting." OVS Magazine, Summer 2011, poem: "Patrick's Song." Washington Post, July 20, 2011, book review: "Three Books on Literary Criticism." Washington Post, June 22, 2011, book review: "Three Short-Story Collections." Washington Post, June 15, 2011, book review: "Three Unsettling Short-Story Collections." Zoland Poetry Review (online), Spring 2011, book review: Picasso in Barcelona, by Bob Holman. Washington Post, May 18, 2011, book review: "A Post-9/11 Potboiler from Madison Smartt Bell." Washington Post, May 16, 2011, book review: "A Tale of a Modern-Day Messiah. Washington Post, March 16, 2011, book review: "On the Road, with Elvis Crooning the Soundtrack." The L Magazine, February 2, 2011, book review: "A New Way of Reading Begins With 'A.'" Zoland Poetry Review (online), Winter 2010, book review: Nox, by Anne Carson Washington Post, October 30, 2010, book review: "From Thomas McGuane, Another Kooks' Tale." Washington Post, October 20, 2010, book review: "Movie Star James Franco Can Act, but Can He Write?" Washington Post, August 4, 2010, book review: "Tickling Ivories, Picking Pockets."

Washington Post, June 16, 2010, book review: "Three New Books for Father's Day." Washington Post, May 26, 2010, book review: "Washington Gets Its Own Holden Caulfield." Washington Post, May 19, 2010, book review: three memoirs. Cleveland Plain Dealer, April 13, 2010, book review: Kay Ryan, The Best of It. Washington Post, March 10, 2010, book review: "Where They're Writing From." Dreamscapes, Spring 2010, poem: "Sleepless in Boston." Washington Post, January 13, 2010, book review: "Books on Musicians Fall Flat." Public Illumination, No. 53/2010, poem: "Trashed Santas." Washington Post, October 21, 2009, book review: "Men Still Get Lost on the Path to Manhood." Washington Post, September 30, 2009, book review: "Can't We All Just Get Along?" Washington Post, September 16, 2009, book review: Little Bird of Heaven, by Joyce Carol Oates. Time Out New York / Kids, September 2009, art preview: "Abstraction Attraction." Boston Review, July/August 2009, book review: Assorted Poems, by Susan Wheeler. Washington Post, July 8, 2009, book review: "Big Names, Short Stories." N+1 Book Review (online), May 31, 2009, "Cheever in Charge," book review: Cheever, by Blake Bailey. Washington Post, April 28, 2009, book review: Men Behaving Badly. Cleveland Plain Dealer, April 19, 2009, book review: Endpoint and Other Poems, by John Updike. The L Magazine, V. 6, No. 36, December 24, 2008, book review: NoVA, by James Boice. Zoland Poetry Review (online), Winter 2009, book review: Kissing Dead Girls, by Daphne Gottlieb. Rain Taxi, V. 13, No. 3, Fall 2008, book review: Man in the Dark, by Paul Auster. The L Magazine, V. 6, No. 19, July 9, 2008, book review: Cake, by D. Brooklyn Rail, April 2008, book review: The Soiling of Old Glory, by Louis Masur. The L Magazine, V. 6, No. 6, March 12, 2008, book review: Lush Life, by Richard Price. Brooklyn Rail, March 2008, book review: Now You See Him, by Eli Gottlieb. Rain Taxi, V. 13, No. 10, Spring 2008, book review: American Music, by Chris Martin. No Depression, No. 72, November 2007, book review: Twenty Thousand Roads, by David N. Meyer. Brooklyn Rail, November 2007, book review: The Dissident, by Nell Freudenberger. Public Illumination, No. 51/2007, poem: Recipe. The L Magazine, V. 5, No. 18, August 15, 2007: book review: Guantnamo, by Dorothea Dieckmann. American Book Review, V. 28, No. 5, July 2007: book review: Zoland Poetry, edited by Roland F. Pease Jr. KGB Bar Lit (online), Spring 2007, book review: Of Song and Water, by Joseph Coulson. The L Magazine, V. 5, No. 1, January 17, 2007, book review: Charity Girl, by Michael Lowenthal. The L Magazine, V. 4, No. 17, August 30, 2006, feature: 9/11 and the Novel. The L Magazine, V. 4, No. 11, June 7, 2006, music review: Waterloo Station, by Dirty Pretty Things. Brooklyn Rail, May 2006, book review: "A Grin to Bear It," NeoPhobe, by Jim Feast. Rain Taxi, V. 11, No. 1, Spring 2006, book review: The Downtown Book, edited by Marvin J. Taylor. Rain Taxi, V. 10, No. 5, Fall 2005, book review: Paris Poems, by Sudie Nostrand. Public Illumination, No. 49/2005, humor: Sun-Kissed. The L Magazine, V. 3, No. 15, August 3, 2005, feature: Paperback Rocker: Continuums 33 Series. The L Magazine, V. 3, No. 14, July 20, 2005, feature: Is Chuck Klosterman Killing New Journalism? The L Magazine, V. 3, No. 6, March 30, 2005, music review: The Alternative to Love, by

Brendan Benson. The L Magazine, V. 2, No. 24, December 22, 2004, feature: Best Music 2004. The L Magazine, V. 2, No. 19, October 13, 2004, interview: Blonde Redhead. The L Magazine, V. 2, No. 17, September 15, 2004, feature: Posers, Alt-Country, and Wilco. Grapefruit, May 2004, feature: Bookselling in the Bronx. American Book Jam, No. 10/2004, five book reviews. Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader Weekender, November 2002 June 2003, bimonthly book reviews.