This page features my books and what people have said about them. Plus interviews, videos, and more
I Made an Accident: Collages and Poems
Published by Clash Books (July 2022)
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Interview with Portland Mercury
Funny interview with Leah Chadwick for Olney Magazine
Review by Jesi Bender at Atticus Review
I Made an Accident Playlist for Largehearted Boy
Video highlight reel of my Powell’s Launch
Interview on KBOO Radio (Jonesy)
Profile (and video) at Oregon Arts Watch
Podcast interview on Drinks with Tony
Praise from Tosh Berman at TamTam Books
Podcast interview on Textual Healing
Podcast interview on The Lives of Writers
Review by Meghan Lamb at Bridge (Chicago)
This Is Between Us (Novel)
Published by Tin House
Available here or here or at your local bookstore.
Also available as an audio book
And e-book
- Feature in Portland Monthly
- Interview on The Rumpus
- Feature in Shelf Awareness
- Review on Bustle
- 25 Point review on HTMLGIANT
- Podcast interview on Brad Listi’s Other People
- Interview on Cari Luna’s Writers With Kids
- Reading parts on the very first Monkeybicycle podcast
- Review in Portland Review
- Podcast interview on KBOO’s Between the Covers
- Review in The Stranger
- Excerpts (animated!) at the Portland Mercury
- Interview by Jon Raymond on NW Books Lovers & Face Out review
- 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
- Q&A on the Powell’s blog
- The Sunday Sentence
A Common Pornography (Memoir)
Published by Harper Perennial
Also available as an audio book
And eBook
- Great Oregonian piece about ACP
- Interview at Melville House’s Moby Lives
- Review in L Magazine
- Review in Creative Loafing (Atlanta)
- Willamette Week feature
- Peer Review on HTMLGiant
- Rain Taxi Interview
- Penthouse reviews A Common Pornography
- Cool article on USC’s Daily Trojan
- I’m interviewed on the TV! Outlook Portland (4 parts)
- Sexy Interview by Jen Michalski
- Review on Pop Matters
- 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
- Recommended on Guernica
- The Rumpus meditates on ACP
- Review at Glorified Love Letters
- Other reviews and mentions appeared in Time Out New York, Time Out Chicago, Harper’s Magazine, Portland Monthly (December 2009), Poets & Writers, (January/February 2010) and Dennis Cooper’s blog.
Portland Noir (Anthology)
Published by Akashic Books
- The Portland Mercury reviews Portland Noir
- Talking Noir with Jason Diamond
- 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 (Short stories)
- Review of Creamy Bullets in The Oregonian
- The Portland Mercury reviews Creamy Bullets
- Talking about music in Creamy Bullets
- Gently Read Literature review
- Hobart likes it
Beautiful Blemish (Short stories)
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
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