Work from 2014 to the present is listed on the home page
“On Influence: Starting and Stopping the Cracks“ – Kenyon Review Online
Interviews
Interview with William H. Gass in Tin House (Full version)
John Jeremiah Sullivan Interview in Rumpus
Lydia Davis Interview in The Rumpus
Paula Fox Interview in The Rumpus
Micheline Aharonian Marcom Interview in The Rumpus
Gary Lutz Interview in Big Other
D.A. Powell Interview in Big Other
An interview with Ken Sparling at HTMLGiant
James Longenbach Interview in Big Other
Tim Horvath Interview – The Nervous Breakdown
Scott Garson Interview in Big Other
Kim Chinquee Interview in Big Other
Eleanor Cook Interview in Big Other, author of A Reader’s Guide to Wallace Stevens
Edward Mullany Interview in Big Other
Book Reviews
Review of Robert Bresson Revised – Quarterly Conversation
Review of The Guy Davenport Reader at Quarterly Conversation
Review of James Salter’s All That Is in The Quarterly Conversation
A review of Sam Lipsyte’s The Fun Parts
A review of Christine Schutt’s Prosperous Friends at Open Letters Monthly
A review of Scott Garson’s Is That You, John Wayne?
A dialogue review of William Gaddis’s JR at Open Letters Monthly with Gabriel Blackwell
A review of Hugh Sheehy’s The Invisibles at The Millions
Review of Gary Lutz’s I Looked Alive in Puerto del Sol
Divorcer by Gary Lutz – The Review of Contemporary Fiction
Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries by Helen Vendler – The Quarterly Conversation
The Passion Artist by John Hawkes – Rain Taxi
Negative Space by Robert Steiner – Brooklyn Rail
Urn-Burial by Sir Thomas Browne – The Millions
The Tunnel by William Gass Part I, Part II – Big Other
Age of Iron by J.M. Coetzee – Open Letters Monthly
From Old Notebooks by Evan Lavender-Smith – Big Other
Pretty by Kim Chinquee – The Rumpus
Life of a Star by Jane Unrue – Big Other
Reading Rilke by William Gass – Big Other
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William Gass – Big Other
Notes on the Cinematographer by Robert Bresson – Big Other
Lovely, Raspberry by Aaron Belz – Big Other
Baby Leg by Brian Evenson – Big Other
For Those Whom God Has Blessed with Fingers by Ken Sparling – Big Other
Easter Rabbit by Joseph Young – Big Other
Post Road #16 – New Pages
Monkeybicycle #6 – New Pages
Film Criticism
At MUBI, reviews of two films – Blue is the Warmest Color andDrinking Buddies
Review of a new Criterion boxed set of films Roberto Rossellini made with Ingrid Bergman at Senses of Cinema
Kubrick as Colored by Himself (Tribute) – The Nervous Breakdown
On Newfound Footage from Kubrick’s The Shining – Big Other
Why the Audience Can’t Sit for or Stand The Tree of Life – Htmlgiant
An appreciation of Edward Yang’s 1999 film, Yi Yi
Andrei Tarkovksy’s Solaris – The Nervous Breakdown
Robert Bresson’s Au Hasard Balthazar – The Rumpus
John Cassavetes – Big Other
William Gass’s The Pederson Kid and Snow in Film – Big Other
A tribute to eight film directors – Big Other
An appreciation of Kiarostami’s new film Certified Copy – Big Other
Abbas Kiarostami’s Ten vs. Blake Edwards’s 10 – Big Other
Top Films of the Decade – Big Other
Lars Von Trier’s AntiChrist – Big Other
An appreciation of the great film Blue Valentine – Big Other
Book Criticism
Learning from Gordon Lish: A Roundtable on Style in Fiction with David Winters and Jason Lucarelli is at The Center for Fiction’s Literariansite
On Gertrude Stein’s The Geographical History of America – The Rumpus
A close reading of Wallace Stevens’s “The Rabbit as King of the Ghosts”
Stylized Despair: Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady in 3am Magazine
The Parable of David Shields’s How Literature Saved My Life
Ode to William H. Gass– The Nervous Breakdown
How to Live, What to Read Next (On Gass’s Life Sentences) – The Nervous Breakdown
William Gass’s The Pederson Kid and Snow in Film – Big Other
Report from the Middle of The Ambassadors by Henry James – Big Other
Wallace Stevens – Big Other
Three posts on The Recognitions by William Gaddis Part I, Part II, Part III – Big Other
Close reading of Stevens’s poem “The Motive for Metaphor” – Big Other
Amy Hempel’s “Offeratory” – Big Other
Samuel Beckett’s Shorter Plays – Big Other
John Hawkes’s The Lime Twig – Big Other