Fiction
“Chicken Man,” Cimarron Review, forthcoming 2024.
“Derby Day,” Notre Dame Review, Winter 2023.
“Apple Flesh,” Oxford American, Fall 2021.
“The Burning of Lawrence” (reprint) in Storyville, August 2015.
“The Americanist,” Guernica, July 2015.
“I Was a Revolutionary,” Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2015.
“Good Men a Long Time Gone,” American Short Fiction, Spring 2015.
“What Is to Be Done?” Ninth Letter, Fall 2014.
“Hard Feelings,” Story, Winter 2014.
“O Death,” FiveChapters, Summer 2012.
“John,” Avery, Fall 2010.
“The Antichrist Chronicles,” Keeping the Wolves at Bay, Autumn House Press, 2010.
“Kansasana,” Devil’s Lake, Spring 2010.
“The Burning of Lawrence,” (reprint) Best New American Voices 2010.
“A Dream of Apocalypse for Marilynne Robinson,” The L Magazine, Summer 2009.
“Disappear,” Web Conjunctions, December 2008.
“Skywriting,” The Southern Review, Fall 2008.
“Quail Haven, 1989,” Columbia, Spring 2008.
“The Burning of Lawrence,” Zoetrope: All-Story, Fall 2007.
“Birthday,” Arts & Letters, Fall 2007.
“Two Back, 1959-1975,” Fugue, Fall 2007.
“Ulysses,” Confrontation, Summer 2007.
“Silver Creek, 1969,” Failbetter, Spring 2007.
“Forever Swimming,” Nimrod, Spring 2006.
“The Cure for Cancer,” The Literary Review, Summer 2005.
“The Agriculture Hall of Fame,” Crazyhorse, Spring 2005.
Nonfiction
“14 Writers You Love and their Favorite Short Stories,” American Short Fiction, May 2018.
“On House Bill 1523,” LitHub, April 2016.
“25 Entreaties: A Manifesto of Sorts,” The Story Prize, November 2015.
“Writers Recommend,” Poets & Writers, September 2015.
“10 Story Collections that Evoke Place,” Publishers Weekly, September 2015.
“Book Notes: I Was a Revolutionary,” Largehearted Boy, September 2015.
“When I Quit Basketball to Become a Writer,” LitHub, August 2015.
“On James Salter,” American Short Fiction, Things American, July 2015.