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 "Josie
Reconsidered: Notes on The Outfield's 'Your Love,'" Coldfront,
2009
"I'll Lead a Lush Life in Some Small Dive: A Christmas Eve Eve
Story," Philadelphia
Weekly, as part of its "Holiday Disaster Stories"
feature, 2009
"Method Acting Memoir: Some Provocations," Prelude,
Medaille College, Fall 2009
"Same
as It Ever Was," marking the tenth anniversary of The Rock Critical
List, The
Morning News, October 20, 2009
"Bob and Tom's Fish Fry: A Sentence Combining Worksheet,"
McSweeney's
Internet Tendency, October 2009
"Goodbye to All Them," an essay on leaving New York, leaving
poetry, leaving New York poetry, The
Morning News, September 23, 2009
"How Sausage Is Made: My Skinny
Jeans Odyssey" immersion piece in which the author wears skinny
jeans, The
L Magazine, September 16, 2009
"Fartspottings: Reflections on
'High Seriousness' and Poetic Passings of Wind," Humor:
The International Journal of Humor Research, September 2009
"Mooning: A Short Cultural History," Hobart,
Issue #10, 2009; "Outtakes and extras" appear on
the website
"The Rumpus long
interview with Jessica Anthony," author of The Convalescent,
The
Rumpus, July 14, 2009
"Excerpts from Cousin Mike:
A Memoir," collection of lists from the memoir project, Indiana
Review, Summer 2009
"lliad Gag Reel," Monkeybicycle
online, Summer 2009
"How to Be Inappropriate: A BookExpo America Guide,"
The
Rumpus, May 29, 2009
"The Case for Upsizing,"
overview of various "male enhancement" phenomena, with a focus
on an experiment with ExtenZe pill, of late-night infomercial infamy,
The
Daily Beast, March 10, 2009
"The Talk Box Reveries," essay
on guitars, guitar playing, the talk box guitar effect, Pete Drake,
Peter Frampton, Pank
magazine, Issue #3, 2009
"Extracts from Cousin Mike: A Memoir," Hotel
Amerika, Fall 2009
Sampler review of promising new literary journals that have made it
past the second issue, with Steve
Black, serials librarian at The College of Saint Rose's Hellman
Library, Library
Journal's Magazine Rack section, January 15, 2009
"My Great Fake Bake Experiment,"
personal essay that chronicles the author's foray into indoor and artifical
tanning methods, The
Daily Beast, January 9, 2009
"Nobody Loves My $20,000 Baby," personal essay on IVF revelations
in public situations, The
Daily Beast, December 3, 2008
"Essay Writing Experiments," list of writing prompts and ideas
for writing essays, Language
is a Virus, November 2008
"Queer eye for the straight old
guy," interview with Bob Morris, author of Assisted Loving:
True Tales of Double Dating with My Dad, Time Out New York,
July 3-8 issue; opens in new
window
"Takin' Care of Jesus," profile/essay on the Christian parody
band ApologetiX, the author's love of heretical Christian kitsch, and
the parodeity movement, July 2, 2008 in The
Morning News
Review of John Allman's Lowcountry, The Bloomsbury Review,
May/June 2008 issue; opens in new
window
"The Puerto Rican Lockhorns
Reunion," essay-memoir piece that takes place on Crosby Street,
in Mr.
Beller's Neighborhood
"Memoir? What Memoir? Frey's
Novel," story on James Frey's new book, Bright Shiny Morning,
May/June 2008 issue of Poets
& Writers
Review of Dennis Cooper's The
Weaklings, Time Out New York, May 7-13 2008 issue; opens
in new
window
Review of Karen Volkman's Nomina, Time Out New York,
May 14-20 2008 issue; opens in new
window
Not-so-recently published factish
nonfiction.
Review of Joyelle McSweeney's Flet:
A Novel, Time Out New York, December 14-27 2007 issue;
opens in new
window
Review of Matthea Harvey's'Modern Life,
Time Out New York, Nov 29-Dec 5, 2007 issue; opens in new
window
Reviews of Patricia Smith's Teahouse of the Almighty and Matthew
Lippman's The New Year of Yellow, Chronogram
[Hudson Valley, NY] November 30, 2007 issue
"Stop Making Sense," interview with poet John Ashbery, Time
Out New York, February 14-21 2007 issue; opens in new
window
"Catching up with Joanna Scott," profile of award-winning
fiction writer, Poets & Writers, January/February 2007
Review of C.K. Williams' Collected Poems, Time Out New
York, December 14-27 2006 issue; opens in new
window
Review of Spy: The Funny Years, Edited by Kurt Andersen, Graydon
Carter and George Kalogerakis, Time Out New York, November
16-22 2006 issue; opens in new
window
"Notes on Frey," personal ruminations on memoir, autobiography,
literary critics, that big fat liar Helen Keller, and my fleeting experience
with and defense of James Frey, Creative
Nonfiction: Issue 29, A Million Little Choices: The ABCs of
CNF.
"Rejection Slip? What Rejection Slip?" Dispatch from a reading
by Lynn Lifshin, who might be one of the most prolific poets in the
universe, PoetryFoundation
website, September 2006
Review of Björn Türoque's To Air is Human: One Man's Quest
to Become the World's Greatest Air Guitarist, Time Out New
York, August 3-9 2006 issue; opens in new
window
Review of Allan MacDonell's Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole
at Hustler Magazine, Time Out New York, June 15-21 2006
issue; opens in new
window
"An Interview with Hal Niedzviecki," Bookslut.com,
June 2006
"All Aboard the Enlightenment Express," story on Robert Bly
and Li-Young Lee's reading at Kripalu Center, Poetry
Foundation website, May 2006
"Revising the Footlicker Story," lyrical, number-listed, metanarrative
essayistic rumination on a 10-year-old date story that involves the
licking of feet, Mr.
Beller's Neighborhood, May 5, 2006
"Comic Adventure Takes Poetic Form," story on Jim and
Dave Defeat the Masked Man, David Lehman and James Cummins' collaborative
book of sestinas--a couple of which were run by yours truly over at
McSweeney's Sestinas page--with Archie Rand drawing reprint
in both online and print versions, Poets
& Writers, March/April 2006
"Boundlessness Limited by Skin: Americana and Artifice in Alice
Fulton's "Unwanting,'" explication/close reading of poem,
Midwestern Miscellany [Society for the Study of Midwestern
Literature, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga], special issue
devoted to Midwestern female poets, Volume 32, 2003 [published in 2006];
open here as a pdf
"Critical Mass," coverage of the 32nd National Book Critics
Circle Awards ceremony for the Poetry
Foundation website; with a poetry angle, of course, March, 2006
"The Politics of Fiction," story on the status of political
literary fiction, with a focus on the "politically inspired"
anthologies edited by Stephen Elliott, lead-off story in the News and
Trends section, Poets
& Writers, January/February 2006
"Marathon Man," interview with "King of All
Video Games" Todd Rogers, Nerve, "video games issue,"
December 2005
 "A
Boy & His Dog Poop," memoir piece formerly entitled "Of
dog poop, gentrification, The Informal New York Times North
Williamsburg Delivery Strike of ’97, Isis, witchcraft supplies,
absurd sexual advice, and preposition confusion," Mr.
Beller's Neighborhood, December 2, 2005
Review of Kenneth Koch's Collected Poems, Time Out New
York, November 3-9, 2005 issue; opens in new
window
"The Status of a Classic," story on The Library of America’s
publishing the first two installments of a planned eight-volume edition
of Philip Roth's collected fiction, lead-off story in the News and Trends
section, Poets
& Writers, September/October 2005
Review of John Hodgman's The Areas of My Expertise,
Time Out New York, October 20-26 2005 issue; opens in new
window
"An Interview with Matt Madden," Bookslut.com,
October 2005
Review of Dobby Gibson's debut book of poems Polar, H_NGM_N,
October 2005
"Prose and eros," review of Anne Carson's Decreation,
Time Out New York, under the "Rhymes & reason"
column, September 1-7 2005 issue; opens in new
window
"An Interview with Lee Gutkind," Bookslut.com,
July 2005
"The Transformation of James Frey," front-cover profile of
author of A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard,
Poets
& Writers, July/August 2005
"Poets House and PSA Branch Out," Poets
& Writers, May/June 2005
"The Tale of the 10 Cruelest Months," Poets
& Writers, March/April 2005
"An Interview with Todd Colby," Bookslut.com,
May 2005
"An Interview with Camille Paglia," Bookslut.com,
April 2005
"The Difference Between Chickens and Goats," memoir
piece on working at New York University’s Film Department, in
Mr.
Beller’s Neighborhood, May 2005
"A.I. Wanna Rock and Roll All Nite," a transcript of a conversation
between Gene Simmons, the bassist for the rock band KISS, and Terry
Gross, host of NPR’s "Fresh Air," originally broadcast
on February 4th, 2002, with Mr. Simmons’s responses replaced by
those of "a.l.i.c.e.," an artificial-intelligence chat bot,
in Yankee
Pot Roast, 2005
Factish nonfiction from the freaking
vaults.
"The Confessions of a Sestinas
Editor," personal essay on experience as Assistant Web Editor for
Sestinas at McSweeney's Internet Tendency, in Poets
& Writers, January/Feburary 2005
"Lewis Turco on the Challenges of Writing Sestinas and Reading
as a Form of Magic," online-only Direct Quote column, Poets
& Writers, December 2004
"The Last Queen Fan in America," essays on my experience as
a fan of the British rock band Queen in the 1980s, in The
Morning News, 2004
"Notes on Freddie Mercury's Mr. Bad Guy Album,"
Pindledyboz,
2004
"Selected Notes on the Later Works of Queen," Eyeshot,
2004
"The Barbaric Yawp: A Video Anthology of Slam Poetry," edited
anthology and wrote three chapters on the history of slam poetry on
Poetry
21, CD-ROM supplement to, among other titles, The Wadsworth
Anthology of Poetry, Jay Parini, ed. (Thomson Heinle, 2005)
 "Are
You Hot Enough to Play with Journey? Todd Rogers Is," profile of
classic video game champion Todd Rogers, in Gamers: Writers, Artists,
and Programmers on the Pleasures of Pixels (Soft Skull Press, 2004)
"Poem and Commentary on Lines About Happy Days Ending
with a Line from Catullus" from NC1: NowCulture Reader,
2002; opens in
new window
Review of Brian Lennon’s City: An Essay, Rain Taxi Review
of Books, Spring 2002, edition for for print-only subscribers;
opens in new
window
"My Ass Life in the West: The Catcher Transcripts" La
Petite Zine, Winter 2002
"Switching Publication to the World Wide Web: Some Reports From
the Front," personal essay about Painted Bride Quarterly's
web/print hybridization, in New York City Poetry Calendar,
2000; opens in new
window
Letter to Interview magazine on Greil Marcus' strained explanation
of Eminem's homophobia as stemming from his gay-curiousness; opens in
new
window
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