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The following is a list of selected recent work.

   Short Fiction

"The Effect." The Literary Review Vol. 51, No. 2 (Winter 2008), 109-115.
"The Installation." Green Mountains Review Vol. XXI No. 1, 146-151.
"Faculty Meeting." Avery 3, 29-35.
"The Children Beneath My Window." Ninth Letter Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2008).
"Revelation." Midway Journal Vol. 3, No. 1 (November 2008).
"German Female, 27." Natural Bridge No. 20 (Fall 2008), 128-135.
"Apotheke." Southern California Review Vol. I, No. 2 (Fall 2008), 118-124.
"From the Life of a Project Manager." New Ohio Review 5 (Spring 2009), 117-122.
"Anchovies." Argestes Spring-Summer 2009, 35-39.
"My Neighbor." The Hopkins Review 3:2 (Spring 2010), 252-64.
"Critical Insect Studies." New Ohio Review 8 (Fall 2010), 13-19.
"The Vampire's Assistant." Echo Ink Review Vol. 2:1, 25-28.
"Narcissus and Echo." Fiction International 43 (2010), 87-92.
“The German Student Today.”  Keyhole 10, 4 – 7.
"My Father's Coat" Agni  73, 105 – 113.
“Friends of Joy: A Review.” Dark Sky (2012).
“from The Secret Correspondence: A Novel of Novels.” New Ohio Review 12
(forthcoming 2012)
“The Vampire in Winter.” Fiction International (forthcoming 2012)
“Italian Hours and Other Reviews.” Salt Hill (forthcoming 2012).
“The One and Only and Other Reviews.” Green Mountains Review (forthcoming 2012).
"Another Love Story and Other Reviews. Asymptote, April 2012.

   Prose Poems and Poetry

"The Wrong Mistake: or, The Afterlife of Philip Marlowe." Hotel Amerika Vol. 7, No. 2 (Spring 2009) 85-104.
"The Proud Chefs." Marginalia 5 (2010), 93.
"Streets." Marginalia 5 (2010), 95.
"A Family Man ." Marginalia 5 (2010), 104.
"The Heart." Nano Fiction Vol. 3, No. 2 (2010), 21.
"Problems in Space and Time." Nano Fiction Vol. 3, No. 2 (2010), 22.
“From Eleven Novels (“Rendezvous in Erlangen,” “The Bicycle and the Canary,” “Moon Story”).  Sentence 8, 115-16.

   Anthologies
"Tomato," "Getting Back to Him," "Simple Sonnet." The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume IV: Louisiana. William Wright, ed. Texas Review Press, 2011, 243 – 45.
“My Father’s Coat.” Something in the Water: 20 Louisiana Stories.  J. P. Travis, ed. New Orleans: Portals Press, 2011, 144-51.

Nonfiction

   Criticism

"Composition for Robert Walser." Words Without Borders (Spring 2008).
"Tom Whalen Reads Walser in an Abandoned School Bus." Words Without Borders (Spring 2008).
"Tom Whalen on Walser and the Visual Arts."Words Without Borders (Spring 2008).
"'You're a Smart Kid. Figure it Out': Robert Harmon's The Hitcher." College Hill Review No. 2 (Spring 2009).
"Low Panic in the Conditional." Echo Ink Review Vol 2:1 (2010), 130-32.
“A Bucket of Maggots, A Can of Worms: Methods of Order in Greenan’s Macabre Collage.” College Hill Review No. 7, Spring 2011 (9 pages).
“The Deceptive Simplicity of Espido Freire’s Irlanda.” In Irlanda by Espido Freire, tr. Toshia Kamei. Fairy Tale Review Press, 2011, 137-40.

   Creative Nonfiction

"Bamboo." Cadillac Cicatrix No. 2 (Winter 2008), 86-87.
"Mother, Broken." South Loop Review Vol. 10 (2008), 91-93.
"Carlier and Kayerts." Witness Vol. XXII (2009), 101-02.
"On Henry James's 'The Great Condition'." Marginalia 5 (2010), 89-90.

“Early Lessons.” Bayou Magazine Issue 56 (2011), 14 – 22.

“Some Remarks on Collaboration.” New Ohio Review 11 (forthcoming 2012)

“Remarks on Foreign Influences.” Sentence 10 (forthcoming 2012)