Critical Distance
- An online critical journal posting essays on American fiction since 1980, sponsored by The Reading Experience. Go there.
TRE Prime--The Best of The Reading Experience
Some of My Other Critical Writing
- "Reckonings." A Review of Gilbert Sorrentino's A Strange Commonplace. Jacket Magazine.
- "Life on the Page: How the Fiction James Wood Really Likes Works" Open Letters Monthly
- "Disassembling Donald Barthelme" The Quarterly Conversation
- "No Funny Business" (On comedy in fiction) The Quarterly Conversation
- "Breaking the Code" The Quarterly Conversation
- "Legislating: Christopher Hitchens as Literary Critic" AGNI
- "Lesson Plans" Butterflies and Wheels
- "Empty Rhetoric: Innovative Fiction and the American Literary Magazine" CONTEXT 14
- "Critical Conditions" CONTEXT 12
- "Not Merely Academic: Creative Writing and Literary Study" RE:Arts and Letters
TRE's Fiction on the Side
Stories Published Elsewhere
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June 01, 2007
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