"The Perfect Age," forthcoming in
          The Iowa Review (fall 2010)

     "Further Interpretations of Real Life
          Events," McSweeney's (Issue 30)
          • Included in The Best American
             Short Stories 2010, ed. Richard
             Russo and Heidi Pitlor
          • Winner of the 2010 National
             Magazine Award (along with
             stories by Wells Tower and
             Anthony Doerr)

     "One Dog Year," Tin House
          • Included in The Best American
             Short Stories 2009, ed. Alice
             Sebold and Heidi Pitlor

     "The Love Talker," The Lifted Brow
           (Issue 4)

     "In the Pines," Harvard Review (Issue 34)

     "First Marriage," Land-Grand College Review (Fall 2006)
          • Included in New Stories From the South: The Year's Best 2008

     "The Newcomer," KGB Bar Lit (Fall 2006)

     "A Statement of Purpose," McSweeney's (Issue 20)

     "Serenade," McSweeney's (Issue 21)

     "Tattooizm," Tin House (Issue 26)
          • Included in The Best American Short Stories 2006, ed. Ann Patchett
             and Katrina Kenison

     "Space," The Chicago Tribune
          Winner of the 2005 Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction

     "The Medicine Man," McSweeney's (Issue 16)
          • Included in The Pushcart Prize XXXI: Best of the Small Presses
             (2007 Edition), ed. by Bill Henderson
          • Included in The Better of McSweeney’s Vol 2.
          • Included in The United States of McSweeney’s (Hamish Hamilton), ed.
             Nick Hornby and Eli Horowitz

     "The Fortune Teller" StoryQuarterly (Issue 40)

     "Ursa, On Zoo Property and Off" Bridge Magazine (Issue 20)

 

     "Funworld: The Business of Writing About the Business of
           Amusement" [link], The Believer (November 2004)

     "The Heaven and Hell of Industry Magazines," The Believer (November
           2004)

     "Dr. Leonard's Housecalls" [link], The Believer (May 2004)

     "Donald Barthelme's Syllabus" [link], The Believer (October 2003)

     Contributor to The Future Dictionary of America, ed. Jonathan Safran
           Foer, Nicole Krauss, and Dave Eggers

 

     Dr. Leonards
     America's largest discount medical supplier. One-stop shopping for
     toe-straightening supplies.

     Paris Review interviews
     Faulkner, on people who can't make sense of his work, even after reading
     it two or three times: "Read it four times."

     Square America
     A gallery of found and vintage photographs.

     The Institute for Figuring
     Information on figures and figuring.

     Donald Barthelme's Barthelismo
     A buffet of Barthelme stories/criticism/ephemera.

     Ocala Jai Alai
     One of America's last remaining jai alai frontons.

 

     George Saunders

     Matthew Vollmer

     Dean Bakopoulos

     Lauren Groff

     James Brown