Recent Fiction

Guernica, “The Deer-Vehicle Collision Survivors Support Group“ (February 2010)

FiveChapters.Com, “In the House of Desire, Honey, Marble, and Dreams“ (Winter, 2008)

Recent Nonfiction

New York Times Op-Ed, “Finally, ‘Thirtysomething?’” (August 23, 2009)

New York Times Op-Ed “Islamic Revolution Barbie” (March 9, 2009)

The Daily Beast (February 11, 2009) , “What I Saw At the Revolution”

Canteen (Issue Three, 2008), “Autobiography of a Debut Writer: Eleven Snapshots of Literary Life” (excerpt; full text available only in print)

New York Times Summerscapes Series Op-Ed, “Pool Waters Run Deep” (July 20, 2008)

Nerve.com, “The 20-Year-Old Virgin” (2005)
(available in the Chronicle Books anthology Bad Sex: We Did It, So You Won’t Have To)