Currently a work in progress

Essays and Stories

February 2013. Essay on Symbols: Forest of Ambiguity in Numero Cinq, Douglas Glover’s online multi-faceted magazine, “a warm place on a cruel web.”

November 19, 2015. “Mind the Gap: Narrative Distance in J. M. Coetzee’s Slow Man” in Fiction Writers Review

“Undead Darlings,” a riff on cooking deleted from A Free Unsullied Land. View pdf.

“Stories We Love,” an essay on William Maxwell’s So Long, See You Tomorrow in Fiction Writers Review

August 2017 “Getting Away with It,” on the Tikkun Daily Blog, an essay on McCarthy and Trump 

July 16, 2018. “‘Brodsky/Baryshnikov’: the language of exile, friendship, and time” in ACM/Another Chicago Magazine. Mikhail Baryshnikov dances poems by Joseph Brodsky. Review of the performance by Maggie

Spring 2017. ”The House Will Burn.” Essay on Walkabout Theater Company’s “The Core of the Pudel,” in Superstition Review.

2018. Anthologized in the Orison Anthology of Spiritual Writing Volume 3, from Orison Books. 

2021. “Flesh and Blood Ideas in J. S. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello” in CRAFT at https://www.craftliterary.com/2021/08/03/flesh-blood-ideas-coetzees-elizabeth-costello/