SELECTED ESSAYS & ARTICLES
Walking With Thoreau, Harvard Review, June 30, 2022
The Plan To Make Michigan The Next Space State, The New Yorker, April 24, 2022
Ancient Greek on the Grass, The New Yorker, October 18, 2021
Once More To The Pond, Harvard Review, 55, 2020 (Cited in “Best American Essays 2020": Notable Essay and Literary Nonfiction)
Dispatch From a Pandemic: Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, MarketWatch/Wall Street Journal Digital, August 20, 2020
Dispatch From a Pandemic: New York City, MarketWatch/Wall Street Journal Digital, April 16, 2020
Ice Lovers, The Common, March 21, 2019
The Mystery of the Holiday Fruitcake, Solved!, The New York Times, December 23, 2018
Changes, Harvard Review, 52, 2018
False Vertigo, Arts & Letters, Fall 2017
Yesterday Is A Wild Parrot, Wildness, Fall 2017 (Cited in “Best American Essays 2018”: Notable Essay and Literary Nonfiction)
Plaza For Pause, Slag Glass City, 2014 (Republished in "Transitory City: Slag Glass City Miniatures," 2017)
A Personal History of Staring, Hotel Amerika, Spring 2012 (Cited in “Best American Essays 2013”: Notable Essay of the Year)
In The Brotherhood Of Guns, Harvard Review, Issue 38, 2010
In Mr. Hiyoshi's Building, Memoir, Fall/Winter 2009 (Best American Travel Writing: Notable Travel Writing of 2009)
Gangs of Orange County: Outside The Picture Window, Los Angeles Times
How I Got Back on My Feet, Newsweek
Viet Q, Harvard Review, Number 28
Midtown At Midlife, Under The Sun
Rock Hounds, Creative Nonfiction
Blood, Time, Harvard Review, Number 24 (Best American Essays 2003: Notable Essay of the Year)