Personal Essays
"Painting Icebergs: A Titanic Obsession," Connecticut Review, Spring 2011
"The Virgin of Crete," Nowhere Magazine (online), Winter 2011
"The Muffin Man," Alimentum, Winter 2011
"The Swimming Pool," Fourth Genre, Fall 2011
"Alone: Two Types of Solitude," Gulf Coast, Spring 2010
"A Monumental Modesty: Morandi at the Met," Tiferet, Winter 2009
"Gjetost," Alimentum, Winter 2009
"Was This Review Helpful? Amazon and the Search for an Unassailable Masterpiece" The Rumpus, May 2009,
"Songs That Have Hummed Me," Book Notes Series Essay (online)
"Straight Job," Writers on the Job: Tales of Non-Writing, Web Del Sol (online)
"Dead to Rights: Confessons of a Caricaturist," Colorado Review, Spring 2008
"Keeping Up With the Days," Cincinnati Review, Winter 2008
"The Man From Stanbul" The Sun (Spring, 2007)
"Last Exit to Fatherhood," More, (Winter 2007)
"Restaurant," Bellevue Literary Review (Fall 2006)
"Confessions of a Left-Handed Man," The Literary Review, Spring 2005
"Dagos in Mayberry," Creative Nonfiction (selected for anthology)
"My Locomotive God," Tiferet, vol. 1, no. 3, Summer 2005
"Barber," Antietam Review (April 2005)
"From a Watercolorist's Sketchbook," Descant (Summer 2005)
"To Die of Italy," Ducts.org (on-line), Winter 2001
"Estranged on a Train," Salon.com, 2000 (reprinted in Chicago Sun-Times)
"Why I Hate Coffee Bars," Urban Desires, Nov. 1999
Essays about Writing
"The Six Usual Suspects," The Writer (Summer, 2007)
"A Short History of Everything," Poets & Writers (April, 2007)
"Anatomy of a Flashback," The Writer Fall 2006
"Put Description to Work," The Writer, May 2006
"Confessions of a Cranky Lit-Mag Editor," Poets & Writers
Book Reviews (very partial list):
"The Wrong Face: Frank Sinatra, Jr." Urban Desires, 1999
"An Anthropologist from Mars," Urban Desires, 1999
"Rembrandt of the Comics," Newsday Sunday Magazine, Sept. 1989
"Eating it All," UCP Review, March 1996
"Sinners All" (review of Western Attitudes Toward Death by Phillipe Aries), Social Health Review, November, 1996
"Broken Things: Interview with Dr. Oliver Sacks," UCP Review, Fall 1996
"To DPT or not to DPT," Social Health Review, April 1996
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