Recently published or coming soon.

"An Interview with Hal Niedzviecki," Bookslut.com, June 2006

"Comic Adventure Takes Poetic Form," story on Jim and Dave Defeat the Masked Man, David Lehman and James Cummins' collaborative book of sestinas--many of which were run by yours truly over at McSweeney's Sestinas page--with Archie Rand drawing reprint in both online and print versions (above), Poets & Writers, March/April 2006

"The Politics of Fiction," story on the status of political literary fiction, with a focus on the "politically inspired" anthologies edited by Stephen Elliott, lead-off story in the News and Trends section, Poets & Writers, January/February 2006


"Marathon Man," an interview with "King of All Video Games" Todd Rogers, Nerve, "video games issue," December 2005 [new window]
[for adults only]

Not-so-recently published.

"An Interview with Matt Madden," Bookslut.com, October 2005

"The Status of a Classic," story on The Library of America’s publishing the first two installments of a planned eight-volume edition of Philip Roth's collected fiction, lead-off story in the News and Trends section, Poets & Writers, September/October 2005

"An Interview with Lee Gutkind," Bookslut.com, July 2005

"The Transformation of James Frey," Poets & Writers, July/August 2005

"Poets House and PSA Branch Out" Poets & Writers, May/June 2005

"The Tale of the 10 Cruelest Months," Poets & Writers, March/April 2005

"An Interview with Todd Colby," Bookslut.com, May 2005

"An Interview with Camille Paglia," Bookslut.com, April 2005

"Lewis Turco on the Challenges of Writing Sestinas and Reading as a Form of Magic," online-only Direct Quote column, Poets & Writers, December 2004


From the freaking vaults.

"The Bards of St. Marks," short on the Poetry Project's New Year's Marathon Reading, Black Book, Winter 2004

"Restless: The John Giorno Interview," Nerve, April 2002 [for adults only] [new window] Full-length version published as "John Giorno's Pornographic Past" in Gargoyle #47, 2003


"Is this the blues I'm singing? An interview with Chris Adams, author of Turquoise Days: The Weird World of Echo & the Bunnymen," La Petite Zine, 2002

"Of Middle, Middle, and Middle, and Making Lies Believable: A Conversation with Paul Thompson," Painted Bride Quarterly, 2001