Publications
Essays, Articles, Reviews, Criticism, and Assorted Nonfiction
“Cosmopolis: A DeLillo–Cronenberg Mutation“
from Bright Lights Film Journal – March 22, 2024
“Recital of the Dark Verses – Luis Felipe Fabre“
from Full Stop – January 26, 2024
“untitled essay” from Sad Happens: A Celebration of Tears
edited by Brandon Stosuy, illustrated by Rose Lazar – November 14, 2023
“Tenderness and Ferocity Go Hand in Hand: A Conversation with Jane Wong”
from Los Angeles Review of Books – May 16, 2023
“Not Furnishing Factual Answers: Robert Trammell’s Jack Ruby & The Origins of The Avant-Garde in Dallas and Other Stories”
from Athenaeum Review (print edition Issue 7, Summer 2022) – November 9, 2022
“Newton’s Appletini: The Rich Literary Cocktail that is Ancestor Trouble”
from Washington Independent Review of Books – October 21, 2022
“Meaning at All: Emily Hall | The Longcut”
from Cleveland Review of Books – September 8, 2022
“The Important Thing Is to Keep Moving: A Conversation with Tom Perrotta”
from Los Angeles Review of Books – August 11, 2022
“Elvia Wilk: On not being afraid to make difficult art”
from The Creative Independent – July 8, 2022
“Opposing Groupthink without a Template: Erika Krouse Interviewed by Sean Hooks”
from BOMB Magazine – March 18, 2022
“One Berry at a Time, You Fill the Jug: A Conversation with Anthony Doerr”
from Los Angeles Review of Books – January 8, 2022
“And There Will Be Conflagration: Grandeur and Empathy in A.S. Byatt’s Possession and the Films of Terrence Malick”
from Socrates on the Beach – December 13, 2021
“Aiming for the Unmediated Response: A Conversation with Brandon Taylor”
from Los Angeles Review of Books – September 10, 2021
“Acute Cases of Loneliness and Frustration: Matthew Specktor Interviewed by Sean Hooks”
from BOMB Magazine – August 24, 2021
“Quirk to Spare: The Weak Spot by Lucie Elven”
from Quarterly West – July 1, 2021
“Interview with Rosecrans Baldwin”
from Full Stop – June 15, 2021
“An Interview with John Brandon”
from Southeast Review – June 10, 2021
“A Flight of Three Fine Hungarian Sours: László Krasznahorkai’s The Last Wolf and Herman”
from Vol 1 Brooklyn – May 12, 2021
“Deacon King Kong by James McBride vs. Memorial by Bryan Washington (The 2021 Tournament of Books judgment)”
from The Morning News – March 19, 2021
“Fake Accounts and the Reality of Fiction: A Conversation With Lauren Oyler”
from Los Angeles Review of Books – March 2, 2021
“Hunting Down Repositories: A Conversation with George Saunders”
from Los Angeles Review of Books – February 5, 2021
“Books Like Pictures in a Gallery: A Conversation with Jonathan Lethem”
from Los Angeles Review of Books – January 21, 2021
“The Inceptions Of Deception:
Reconsidering Philip Roth’s Most Underrated Book”
from Athenaeum Review – December 31, 2020
“Book Review: Directory by Christopher Linforth”
from Necessary Fiction – October 05, 2020
“Thick with Noir: Tom Lutz’s Born Slippy”
from CRAFT – August 11, 2020
“Textualizing the Quiddities – Review of High Weirdness by Erik Davis”
from 3:AM Magazine – April 23, 2020
“Epistolary Exposure, Embodied Critique, and American Identity: On Bruce Springsteen’s ‘The Hitter’”
from Athenaeum Review – October 15, 2019
“Dine and Dash: The diner as an avatar of working-class identity in Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree”
from The Smart Set – August 12, 2019
“The Dizziness of Freedom, A Worldhood of Words: Pond, A Phenomenological Non-Novel by Claire-Louise Bennett”
from Entropy – July 15, 2019
“Pointless and Essential: On Witold Gombrowicz’s Cosmos”
from Los Angeles Review of Books – March 17, 2019
“Sparing No Pains: The abiding consciousness of Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others”
from The Smart Set – October 4, 2018
“Michael Clayton: Hollywood’s Last Movie for Adults”
from Bright Lights Film Journal – June 7, 2018
“The Novels of David Mitchell and Tom McCarthy: Depictions of Beings in Time—Origami or Cicatrix?”
from The International Journal of the Arts in Society Volume 13, Issue 1 – May 2018
“The Operating Theatre: Contemporary Fiction & Las Vegas”
from 3:AM Magazine – April 19, 2018
“A Hole is Not a Burrow: The Epiphanic Horror of Kobo Abe’s The Woman in the Dunes and its Line of Literary Descent”
from The Scofield – Winter 2018
“Why We Write”
from 1888 Center – July 12, 2017 [not currently available]
“Protean Miniatures: The Adaptability and Sustainability of Flash Fiction”
from Los Angeles Review of Books – June 12, 2017
“Terrence and Joni Redeem L.A.”
from The Smart Set – May 24, 2017
“The Propagation of Empathy, the Absence of Bathos: On Alexander Payne’s Sideways”
from Bright Lights Film Journal – October 19, 2016
“Authenticity in the Contemporary Creative Writing Landscape”
from The International Journal of Literary Humanities Volume 14, Issue 3 – April 22, 2016
“Revisiting Jurassic Park”
from Heavy Feather Review – August 12, 2015
“Palter & Prescience – On David Mitchell and Ghostwritten”
from Substance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism Issue 136, Volume 44, No. 1 – 2015
“The Radiant Minute, The Gisted Particular: The Combinatory Aesthetics of William Carlos Williams”
from Intellectual Refuge – Fall/Winter 2014 [not currently available]
“The Soul of London is The Heart of the American Midwest: a review of John Lanchester’s Capital”
from The Journal Issue 38.2 – Spring 2014
“The Art of Digression: J.D. Salinger’s ‘Seymour: An Introduction’”
from Los Angeles Review of Books – September 15, 2013
“Here at Last! An Ode to Dunkin’ Donuts”
from Las Vegas Weekly – November 21, 2007
“Pop Culture: Idol Democracy”
from Las Vegas Weekly – May 18, 2006
“The Invisible Nobelist”
from Las Vegas Weekly – March 3, 2005
Stories and Flash Fiction
“This World That Has Taken So Long To Become Itself”
from The Molotov Cocktail Volume 10, Issue 2 – May 3, 2019
“The Sound of a Shot (off-stage on right)”
from Wisconsin Review Volume 52, Issue 1 – Fall 2018 [print only]
“The Caterwaul”
from Rougarou: Journal of Arts and Literature – Winter 2018
“The Sad Mafioso”
from Rougarou: Journal of Arts and Literature – Winter 2018
“Tea Lesson”
from Ginosko Literary Journal Issue 18 – Fall 2016
“A Job Down in Danville”
from Akashic Books’ Mondays are Murder: Noir Series – June 20, 2016
“Deponent”
from The Manhattanville Review – May 24, 2016 [not currently available]
“Daily”
from Pif Magazine – January 1, 2016
“I Found It Hard, It’s Hard To Find”
from Superstition Review Issue 15 – Spring 2015
“In The Café Adjacent to the Art Gallery”
from FORTH Magazine – March 16, 2015 [not currently available]