Here’s some various non-fiction (100% true!) things I have written. Enjoy them!
Memoir/Personal Essays
I remember having a crush on a girl in 10th grade who loved Duran Duran. She drove a pink Carmengia, had braces, and danced really cute. (from Largehearted Boy)
“I wasn’t really sure where she was from (maybe Australia, maybe Oklahoma) but the sound of her voice made me hard in my pants, even when she was talking about how her and her ex-husband had sex every day for nine years.” (from The Fanzine)
“I was constantly horny and decided it was in my best interest to branch out into some of the other cliques of new wavers and bingo-parlor regulars…” (from Nerve)
“We would make out with the lights off and she’d let me take her shirt off. Her bra would stay on, in one way or another…” (from Word Riot)
“I met a girl there who played Cat Stevens in the morning and made coffee on a stove. I began to cry at anything…” (from McSweeney’s)
“She lay on the bed and opened her robe, letting it stay under her like a beach towel. Her body was unfit and slack. More like a trucker’s body than a prostitute. I didn’t feel any hot sexual vibe from her at all, more like a “Can I smoke my Marlboro yet?” kind of vibe…” (from Smith Magazine)
“I zig-zagged around the store aimlessly until I found the cassettes, buried in some corner like an erotica section at a bookstore…” (from Willamette Week)
“I wasn’t a very good editor for a long time. I’m even embarrassed by a lot of my own writing. Especially the stuff from the early 90s…” (from Spork)
“She was the kind of girl who still slept with over-sized teddy bears, wrote in huge loopy cursive, and whose favorite food was pancakes…” (from 3:AM Magazine)
Book Reviews and Other Types of Articles
What Not to Do at a Bookstore Reading
Character Witness: Stephen Elliott
On Gordon Lish
Haiku Interview: Mountain Goats!
Down South With the Ghost of Larry Brown
Short Essay on Lutz, Lipsyte, and Williams
Exciting New Literary Terms!
My Stuff in The Believer
My Stuff on the Powell’s Blog
Interview with Diane Williams
On Writing in Public
Hollywood Ruins Books
Video Interview with Steve Almond
The Business of Used Books
Interview with Willy Vlautin
Hardcover vs Paperback
Monica Drake Profile
My Blurb or Yours?
Jami Attenberg Interview
Making a Play Out of Found Items
