publications

books

•Elegies for the Brokenhearted (W.W. Norton & Co., New York, July 2010)

•Hello, I Must Be Going (W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 2006)

•A Jeweler’s Eye for Flaw: Stories (University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 2003)

novella

•“Going Out of Business Forever.” Quarterly West (Fall 2001): 118-157.

short stories in journals

•“Bedtime Stories for the Middle-Aged.” The Cincinnati Review (Summer 2009).

•“Elegy for Elwood LePoer.” American Short Fiction (Summer 2009).

• “Tom & Jerry.” Ploughshares (Spring 2008): 68-104.

•“Elegy for Mike Beaudry.” The Southern Review (Summer 2008): 551-574.

•“The Hero of Loneliness.” Meridian (May 2008): 6-19.

•“Three Funerals.” The Georgia Review (Summer 2003): 289-97.

•“A Jeweler’s Eye for Flaw.” The Georgia Review (Summer 2002): 438-55.

•“Sir Karl LaFong or Current Resident.” The Bellingham Review (Spring 2001): 22-47.

•“Take Them In, Please.” The Greensboro Review (Spring 2001): 20-29.

•“The Hero of Loneliness.” Meridian (Fall 2000): 20-39.

•“Raised Arms.” Notre Dame Review (Summer 1999): 57-66.

• “Letting Out.” The Texas Review (Combined Issue 1995): 21-27.

short stories in anthologies

•“Tom & Jerry.” The Pushcart Prize XXXIV: The Best of the Small Presses.  New York: Pushcart Press, 2009.

•“Three Parting Shots and a Forecast.” The Habit of Art.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.

•“A Jeweler’s Eye for Flaw.” The Pushcart Prize XXVIII: The Best of the Small Presses. New York: Pushcart Press, 2004.

•“The Hero of Loneliness.” New Stories from the South 2001. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Press, 2001.

•“Three Parting Shots and a Forecast.” Scribner’s Best of the Fiction Workshops. NewYork: Scribner, 1999.

essay

•“Permanent Fatal Errors: The Information Age and the War Criminal Next Door.” West Branch (Spring 2010): 61-90.