Judge

• Board Member, National Book Critics Circle, 2020-2023
• Critic judge for the 2019 Nonfiction Kirkus Prize
  • ​Winner: Saeed Jones How We Fight For Our Lives
• Seven-time Writers League of Texas Manuscript Contest Judge
  • ​​Categories judged: General Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Science Fiction/Fantasy

Essays and Reflections

• "A Partial List" (My Bowie tribute) in Barrelhouse Online
• "Hospital Food" in Cosmonauts Avenue
• "The Gambler" in The Morning News
• "Mexican Enough" in The Rumpus
• "The Last Book I loved: The Perfect Spy" in The Rumpus
• "The Show From Another Place: Twin Peaks and Grief"
• "What Is A Literary Thriller, Anyway?

Interviews

• Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf
• Cherríe Moraga, Native Country of the Heart
• Fernando Flores, Tears of the Trufflepig
• Dina Nayeri, The Ungrateful Refugee
• Daniel C. Guiet, Scholars of Mayhem
• Tomás González, The Storm
• Dubravka Ugresic, American Fictionary
• J.M. Holmes, How Can You Save Yourself?
• Jean Guerrero, Crux
• Raymond Villareal, A People’s History of the Vampire Uprising
• Kevin Powers, A Shout in the Ruins
• Mark Eisner, Neruda: The Poet’s Calling
• Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels
• Francisco Cantú, The Line Becomes A River
• Stefan Merrill Block, Oliver Loving
• Daniel Alarcón, The King Is Always Above the People
• Rodrigo Hasbún, Affections
• Juan Rulfo translator Douglas Weatherford, The Golden Cockerel
• Joseph Scapellato, Big Lonesome
• Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire
• Edmundo Paz Soldán, Norte
• Guadalupe Garcia McCall, Shame the Stars
• Mauro Javier Cardenas, The Revolutionaries Try Again
• Joe McGinniss, Jr, Carousel Court
• Dan Zak, Almighty
• James D. Walsh, Playing Against the House
• Alvaro Enrigue, Sudden Death
• Bill Clegg , Did You Ever Have a Family?
• Sam Quinones, Dreamland
• Sandra Cisneros, A House of My Own
• Mark Z. Danielewski, The Familiar Vol 1
• David Mitchell , The Bone Clocks
• Alice McDermott, Someone
• Doug Dorst , S
• Marisha Pessl, Night Film
• James McBride, The Good Lord Bird
• Lev Grossman , The Magician’s Land
• Rolando Hinojosa, The Valley
• Michael Helm , City of Refuge
• Tom Rachman, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers
• Domingo Martinez, The Boy Kings of Texas
• Bruce Wagner , The Empty Chair
• Anna Stothard, The Pink Hotel
• Matthew Specktor, American Dream Machine
• Alain de Boton, How to Think More About Sex
• Charles Dubow, Indiscretion

Fiction/Poetry

• "Stubborn Pride Submits to Light and Fire" in The Smoking Poet
• "Something Bad and Stingy" in Dr. Hurley's Snake Oil Cure
• "Ryder's Mom's Porch" in Floodwall
• "The Need for Other People Faded" in Kill Author

• "Membrane" in Bartleby Snopes (Story of the Month!)
• "Charles and Irma" in Nimrod Fall/Winter 2009 (Honorable Mention in The 31st Nimrod Awards. Selected by Anthoney Doerr)

Articles and Reviews

• "Toni Morrison: Building An American Home"
• Growing Things by Paul Tremblay
• Into the Black Nowhere by Meg Gardiner
• Decoded by Mai Jia
• People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry
• "New Mexico: Crime From the Land of Enchantment"
• Along These Highways by Rene S. Perez
• "When Poker Was Dangerous: Al Alvarez and ​The Biggest Game in Town"
• "Horace McCoy: Reality and Beautiful Risks"
• "The Nothing Man: Jim Thompson in Hollywood Parts One and Two"
• "Michael Caine: The Very Model of a Modern British Thug"
• "Street of the Lost: David Goodis and Philadelphia"
• "Dancing Around The Scene of the Crime"

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