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The following is a list of selected recent work.
 

 

   Short Fiction

"Company at Attention in Time of War." Marginalia Vol. 1 Issue 2, 43-45.
"Lake Sketch for Little Girls." Alice Redux
, ed. Richard Peabody (Arlington, Va.: Paycock Press, 2006), 317-19.
"Venus at Her Toilette." The Modern Review
Vol. I, No. 4 (Summer 2006).
"The Head-in-Progress: from THE PRESIDENT IN HER TOWERS." The Modern Review Vol II, No. 3 (Spring 2007), 99-107.
"Maisie." Coe Review Vol. 37, No. 2 (Spring 2007), 4-11.
"Old Postman Falls Over." The Modern Review Vol. III, No. 1 (Fall 2007).
"Rudolph's Story." Fiction International No. 40 (2007), 138-144.
"The Effect." The Literary Review Vol. 51, No. 2 (Winter 2008), 109-115.
"The Installation." Green Mountains Review Vol. XXI No. 1, 146-151.
"Faculty Meeting." Avery 3, 29-35.
"The Children Beneath My Window." Ninth Letter Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2008).
"Revelation." Midway Journal Vol. 3, No. 1 (November 2008).
"German Female, 27." Natural Bridge No. 20 (Fall 2008), 128-135.
"Apotheke." Southern California Review Vol. I, No. 2 (Fall 2008), 118-124.
"From the Life of a Project Manager." New Ohio Review 5 (Spring 2009), 117-122.
"Anchovies." Argestes Spring-Summer 2009, 35-39.
"My Neighbor." The Hopkins Review (forthcoming).
"Narcissus and Echo." Fiction International (forthcoming).


   Prose Poems and Poetry

"Dolls, Dolls, Dolls," "The Doll's Alienation," "Once a Doll Was Exploring Her Intestines." Ghoti Magazine (Issue 4).
"Belief," "The Test," "Instructions on How to Wind a Doll," "Romanticism and Dolls," "On Love and Dolls," "Dolls and Kant," "The Doll's Suicide," "The Last Word on Dolls." Sentence No. 4 (2006), 142-6.
"True Story," "All This," "Woman and Dolls." Mississippi Review Vol. 34, No. 3 (2006), 171-3.
"Eleven Dolls ." SamizDADA (Mar. 1, 2007).
"Doll Nocturne," "5 Dolls," "Fairy Taie." The Modern Review Vol III, No. 1 (Fall 2007).
"The Gentleman Returned," "A Scandal," How to Make Love to Green Man." The New Yinzer (Summer 2007).
"The Wrong Mistake: or, The Afterlife of Philip Marlowe." Hotel Amerika Vol. 7, No. 2 (Spring 2009) 85-104.
"Rendezvous in Erlangen," "The Bicycle and the Canary," "Moon Story." Sentence (forthcoming).
"Problems in Space and Time," "The Heart." Nano Fiction (forthcoming).


Nonfiction

   Criticism

"Written on a Whim." On Robert Walser. Bookforum Vol. 12, Issue 5 (Feb/Mar 2006), 10-11.
"Sovereign Insignificance." (longer version of review/essay on Speaking to the Rose by Robert Walser) in Bookforum, above). Marginalia Vol.2, No.3 (2006), 137-46.
"The Consequences of Passivity: Re-evaluating Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451." Literature/Film Quarterly Vol. 35, No. 3 (2007).
"Composition for Robert Walser." Words Without Borders (Spring 2008).
"Tom Whalen Reads Walser in an Abandoned School Bus." Words Without Borders (Spring 2008).
"Tom Whalen on Walser and the Visual Arts."Words Without Borders (Spring 2008).
"'You're a Smart Kid. Figure it Out': Robert Harmon's The Hitcher." College Hill Review No. 2 (Spring 2009).

   Creative Nonfiction

"The Beating." Red Mountain Review Vol. 2 (2006), 25-29.
"The Boy in the Street." Under the Sun Vol XII, No. 1 (2007), 19-25.

"Bamboo." Cadillac Cicatrix No. 2 (Winter 2008), 86-87.
"Mother, Broken." South Loop Review Vol. 10 (2008), 91-93.

"Carlier and Kayerts." Witness Vol. XXII (2009), 101-02.
"On Henry James's 'The Great Condition'." Marginalia (forthcoming).