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The following is a list of selected recent work.
 

 

   Short Fiction

"Late Winter Story." 580 Split No. 7 (2005), 86-88.
"Prose Piece for Martha Stewart." Pindeldyboz
, 3 pages.
"The Vampire in Germany." The Mochila Review (2005), 104 - 107.
"Conversations with Godard." AGNI No. 62 (2005), 191-197.
"After Work." Hotel Amerika
Vol. 4, No. 1 (2005), 79-81.
"Doll with Chili Pepper." Fiction International
No. 38 (2005), 134-143.
"The No Blues Man." The Texas Review
Vol. 26 Nos. 3-4 (Fall/Winter 2005), 59-63.
"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 InternationalNo. 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).
"Carlier and Kayerts." Witness (forthcoming).
"Revelation." Midway Journal (forthcoming).
"German Female, 27." Natural Bridge (forthcoming).
"From the Life of a Project Manager." New Ohio Review (forthcoming).


   Prose Poems and Poetry

"Legacy," "A Doll's Tale," "The Delusions of Dolls." Double Room Winter Spring 2005 No. 5.
"Strange Alleys." Rhino
2005, 92.
"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." The Modern Review (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).
"The Mechanical Universe of Russell H. Greenan's Nightmare." Interstice.

   Creative Nonfiction

"Why I Became a Vegetarian." Ginger Hill Vol. 42 (2005), 41-42.
"Southern Childhood." Ballyhoo Stories
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2005), 44-51.
"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 Reivew (forthcoming).