This page features my books and what people have said about them. Plus a bunch of interviews I’ve done.

This Is Between Us

Out now from Tin House Books. I am so excited about this.

Order it here or here or at your local bookstore. Thank you!

Also available as an audio book.

And e-book!

• Feature in Portland Monthly
• Interview on The Rumpus
• Feature in Shelf Awareness
• Review on Bustle
• Interview by Joseph Riippi on Tweed’s Mag
• Interview with YAY LA
• 25 Point review on HTMLGIANT
• Podcast interview on Brad Listi’s Other People
• Interview on Cari Luna’s Writers With Kids
• Review at Chicago Center for Literature and Photography
• Reading parts on the very first Monkeybicycle podcast
• Review in Portland Review
• Podcast interview on KBOO’s Between the Covers
• Review in The Stranger
• Busking at the Seams breaks down the novel
• Excerpts (animated!) at the Portland Mercury
• Interview by Jon Raymond on NW Books Lovers & Face Out review
• Luna Luna review and comparison to poetry and Winterson
• Interview about sex and writing in TIBU on PDXX
• Review of my BookCourt reading at English Kills Review
• Video of me (a bit awkwardly) talking about TIBU for the Oregonian
• Review on Your Impossible Voice
• Excerpts on The Collagist
• Ampersand Review offers a mixed review
• Q&A on the Powell’s blog
• Review on Hysteria and Confetti
• The Sunday Sentence
• Podcast interview on Book Circle Online

A Common Pornography

Also available as an Audible audiobook!

• Great Oregonian piece about ACP and my proposal!
• 5-star review in Time Out New York
• Interview on the Bat Segundo Show
• Review in L Magazine
• Review in Creative Loafing (Atlanta)
  
• Willamette Week feature
• Excerpt in Portland Mercury
• Peer Review on HTMLGiant
  
• Harper’s Magazine review (via Daryl’s blog)
• Rain Taxi Interview
• Penthouse reviews A Common Pornography
• Cool article on USC’s Daily Trojan
• Interview in Time Out Chicago
  
• Review at Blog Critics
• I’m interviewed on the TV! Outlook Portland (4 parts)
  
• Sexy Interview by Jen Michalski
• Review on Pop Matters
• Listen to me on OPB’s Think Out Loud
• Trinie Dalton reviews it for The Fanzine
• In Ink talks about ACP and… Taxi Driver?
  
• Review in the Pacific Northwest Inlander
  
• Gigi Little talks about the voice in ACP
• Review on Memoir Book Club
  
• Long and fun interview at powells.com
• Review on Bark
  
• Review on True/Slant
• Recommended on Guernica
• ACP Picked as an Indie Next selection
  
• A somewhat mixed review in The Seattle Times
  
• The Rumpus meditates on ACP
• Review at Glorified Love Letters
• Australian Review on the Voiceworks blog
  
• Other reviews and mentions appear in Portland Monthly (December 2009), Poets & Writers, (January/February 2010) and Dennis Cooper’s blog.

Portland Noir

• The Portland Mercury reviews Portland Noir
• Talking Noir with Jason Diamond
• Interview with Reading Local
• The Oregonian reviews Portland Noir
• Morning TV appearance on KATU for Portland Noir
• Rose City Reader review
  
• KBOO interview with Monica, Bill, and Kimberly
  

Creamy Bullets

• Review of Creamy Bullets in The Oregonian
• The Portland Mercury reviews Creamy Bullets
• Talking about music in Creamy Bullets
• Creamy Bullets at American Book Review
• Gently Read Literature review
• Hobart likes it

Beautiful Blemish

• Review of Beautiful Blemish at Really Small Talk
• Beautiful Blemish: A Case Study at Sleeping Fish
• Suicide Girls review and interview

Other Reviews of my work with Future Tense Press

• MobyLives talks about Future Tense

And here’s a list of some of my other book-like creations. Most of these are pretty hard to find. So if you got them, you’re lucky (or maybe unlucky, depending on how you look at it).

Haiku Inferno (w/ Frayn Masters, Elizabeth Miller, and Frank D’Andrea), The Insomniac Reader (editor), Spork 4.3 (guest editor), Invisible Radios: Remixes, Statistics, Jokes, etc., Etiquette For Evil, The Patricia Letters, Haiku You, Head, 13 Girls on Fire, How to Lose Your Mind With the Lights On, Family Val-U Pack (w/ Vince Price), Literary Snobs (w/ Brian Tibbetts), Beautiful Teenagers Unite, Awkword, Acid Dental Work, The Diner Anthology (editor), Magick Time Bomb (w/ Miss Wink Luskin), Poetry Is Dead (editor), Words of the Eternal Con Artist