NEWS:
--I read "Down to You," the opening chapter of Song So Wild and Blue, at Bread Loaf: bit.ly/3ZaeAKK
--I taught nonfiction at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the VCFA Postgraduate Writers Conference, and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown in Summer 2024. I was also Visiting Writer at Good Contrivance Farm.
--The Cover Reveal for Song So Wild and Blue: A Life With the Music of Joni Mitchell on Electric Literature, July 3, 2024.
--I taught a creative nonfiction workshop titled On Urgency at the Key West Literary Seminar in January 2024.
--I was promoted to Professor of English at Rutgers University-Camden in June 2023.
--I gave the inaugural Lauren Berlant Memorial Lecture at the University of Chicago's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality on April 13, 2023.
--News about my next book, The Sky In It: A Life with Joni Mitchell, forthcoming from HarperOne. *Since retitled Song So Wild and Blue: A Life With the Music of Joni Mitchell.
--I received the Rose Dorothea Award from the Provincetown Library on September 16, 2022. The Award is "given each year by the Library's Board of Trustees to an individual with close connections to the Outer Cape, and who has made a significant contribution to the community in letters."
--I wrote about my Multigenre Experiments in Form workshop for LitHub's Back to School for Everyone feature in September 2022.
--I was on nonfiction faculty at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference in August 2022.
--Rajat Singh interviewed me in the April-May 2021 print issue of The Believer.
--LATER was one of NPR'S Best Books of 2020.
--LATER was one of Electric Lit's Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2020.
--LATER was one of Oprah Magazine's Best LGBTQ Books of 2020.
--I read from LATER on Season 3 of the Storybound Podcast in December 2020.
--I read at the Tomales Bay Workshop in October 2020.
--I read for the Collingswood Book Festival in October 2020.
--I publish four short stories under the title "Wonderland, A Collection" in THE NEW ENGAGEMENT in July 2020.
--The audiobook of LATER, narrated by Joel Froomkin, is available now.
--Garth Greenwell and I read together, and interview each other about our most recent books, for Chicago's Women & Children First on June 25, 2020.
--Deborah Lott and I interview each other about our books for Harvard Book Store on June 23, 2020.
--I'm teaching a two-hour craft class called Dismantling the House: Endings as Beginnings for Writing by Writers on August 24, 2020.
--Cooper Lee Bombardier and I talk about our new books together on LitHub on June 9, 2020.
--Harper's Bazaar lists LATER as one of 14 LGTBQ+ books to look for in 2020.
--I'm interviewed by Adrienne Westenfeld at Esquire as part of a piece on how writers and bookstore owners are surviving the COVID-19 crisis on May 13, 2020.
--I'm interviewed by Royal Young at The Rumpus on May 11, 2020.
--LATER gets a rave review from Michael Valinsky for the Los Angeles Review of Books on May 8, 2020.
--Alexander Chee and I read from each others' work and interview each other as part of LIC Reading Series' Five Year Anniversary on LitHub on May 1, 2020.
--I talk with Deborah Kalb for her website on April 29, 2020.
--I appear on Apparel for Authors on April 29, 2020.
--I appear on House of SpeakEasy with Jeff Sharlet and Chavi Eve Karkowsky on April 21, 2020.
--My piece "Has America's View of HIV Changed Since Philadelphia?" appears in The Advocate on April 21, 2020.
--Sophia Starmack interviews me in the Provincetown Independent on April 16, 2020.
--I'm in conversation with Andrea Lawlor at the Center for Fiction on April 14, 2020.
--I'm interviewed by Julia Kastner for Shelf Awareness on April 14, 2020.
--Lisa Olstein and I interview each other about our books for BLP Conversations on April 11, 2020.
--Lisa Olstein and I interview each other about our books for LitHub's Rekindled series on April 9, 2020.
--I'm interviewed by Karensa Cadenas for The Cut on April 9, 2020. An excerpt from LATER is featured too.
--I read and answer questions for Reading Group Choices on April 9, 2020.
--I read and am interviewed by Pam Houston for Readings by Writers on April 2, 2020.
--I publish a new essay "Exposure" in the April 2020 Issue of Image Journal.
--LATER gets a rave review from Sarah Neilson in the Washington Post on March 31, 2020.
--I talk to Maris Kreizman for her series Sheltering on LitHub's virtual channel on March 30, 2020.
--I put up a playlist for LATER on Spotify in March 2020.
--I read at East End Books in Provincetown on March 27, 2020.
--Jared Jackson interviews me for the Pen Ten on March 26, 2020.
--I contribute to a feature "22 Books Our Favorite Authors are Turning to During Coronavirus" for them on March 25, 2020.
--LATER is a part of Greg Mania's piece "Read These 15 Books in Quarantine" for Paper on March 25, 2020.
--Mitchell Kuga interviews me for MEL Magazine in March 2020.
--Lauren LeBlanc interviews me for The New York Observer on March 24, 2020.
--Books are Magic posts an excerpt of my LATER launch event with Susan Choi on March 23, 2020.
--Tammy Paolino interviews me for The Courier Post (reprinted in the Asbury Park Press and Bergen Record) on March 20, 2020.
--LitHub reprints an excerpt from LATER on March 20, 2020.
--Mark Bibbins and I interview each for Guernica on March 20, 2020.
--T. Cole Rachel interviews me for The Creative Independent on March 20, 2020.
--Kate Tuttle interviews me in the Boston Globe on March 19, 2020.
--Nina St. Pierre interviews me for Columbia Journal on March 19, 2020.
--My piece Cut appears in Conjunctions Online on March 17, 2020.
--Poets & Writers interviews me on March 17, 2020.
--Nick Ripatrazone interviews me for The Millions on March 17, 2020.
--Greg Mania interviews me for Electric Lit on March 17, 2020.
--Yvonne Conza interviews me for BOMB on March 17, 2020.
--Christopher Bollen interviews me for Interview Magazine on March 17, 2020.
--LATER gets a rave review from Martha Anne Toll on NPR on March 17, 2020.
--John Williams interviews me in the New York Times on March 15, 2020.
--LATER gets a rave review from Alexander Chee in the Los Angeles Times on March 14, 2020.
--LATER gets a rave review from Kathleen Rooney in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on March 14, 2020.
--I'm a part of LitHub's 5 Authors, 7 Questions feature on LitHub on March 10, 2020.
--Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore reviews LATER in the San Francisco Chronicle on March 5, 2020.
--LATER is one of the Washington Post's Ten Books to Read in March 2020.
--LATER is one of Entertainment Weekly's 20 must-reads in March 2020.
--LATER gets a rave review from Lidija Haas in the March 2020 issue of Harper's.
--LATER is one of the Philadelphia Inquirer's Best Books of the Spring.
--The LATER Book Tour will take me to Brooklyn, San Antonio, Chicago, San Francisco, Portland, New York City, New Jersey, Boston, Philadelphia, Austin, Houston, Washington, DC, Iowa City, Provincetown, Los Angeles, Asbury Park, Amherst, and other locations to be announced. See Events page for more details. I'd love to see or meet you!
--LATER is one of The Rumpus' Most Anticipated Books of 2020.
--LATER is one of O, The Oprah Magazine's 31 Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books of 2020.
--I wrote about some favorite books for The Millions' "A Year in Reading" feature in December 2019.
--I wrote about Jess Arndt's LARGE ANIMALS for LitHub's feature: "Writers Tell Us Their Favorite Underappreciated Gems of the Decade" in December 2019.
--Adam Swanson interviews me about desire, hybridity, frankness, LATER, and animal parables for Corporealwriting.com on August 25, 2019.
--I wrote some words about David Wojnarowicz's CLOSE TO THE KNIVES for O, the Oprah Magazine on June 4, 2019.
--LATER has a cover: LitHub's cover reveal on May 20, 2019.
--LATER will be a Rumpus Book Club selection for February 2020.
--My next book, LATER, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in March 2020.
--An interview on Pigeon Pages, April 2019.
--In 2019, I'm teaching the novel in the Tin House Winter Workshops.
--Provincetown Arts posts the feature on me from the 2018 issue, with an interview by Elizabeth McCracken and other pieces by Matthew Klam, Claire Vaye Watkins, Lisa Olstein, Carl Phillips, Garth Greenwell, and Victoria Redel.
--Sophia Starmack interviews me along with Michael Cunningham, Bob Bailey, and Jane Fine as part of an article on the Fine Arts Work Center at 50 for the Provincetown Banner.
--Flora Stadler interviews me in GLB in June 2018.
--In Fall 2018 I'll be a visiting professor at the University of Texas-Austin's New Writers Project.
--I'm the featured writer in the annual issue of Provincetown Arts in July 2018.
--I'm teaching a one-week memoir/nonfiction workshop in August 2018 at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
--I'm the Lawrence Sanders Writer-in-Residence at Florida Atlantic University in February/March 2018.
--Eileen Garvin interviews me in The Critical Flame for the September/October 2017 issue.
--The Narrow Door is a finalist for the 2017 Randy Shilts Award in Gay Nonfiction from the Publishing Triangle.
--I have a new story, Welcome to My Highway, in the debut issue of Scoundrel Time.
--I appear on John King's Drunken Odyssey Podcast on January 21, 2017.
--I review André Aciman's novel ENIGMA VARIATIONS in the Sunday New York Times Book Review on January 20, 2017.
--I'm on the faculty of the Tin House Summer 2017 Writers' Workshop.
--I'm a Featured Presenter at the AWP Conference in Washington, DC in February 2017.
--THE NARROW DOOR is one of Shelf Awareness's Best Books of 2016.
--THE NARROW DOOR is one of Google Play Editorial's Favorite Books of 2016.
--THE NARROW DOOR is on Miami Herald's Best LGBTQ Books and Music List of 2016.
--Rutgers University-Camden, where I teach fiction and nonfiction, joins the ranks of fully funded MFA programs.
--In 2016 I'm a guest at The Los Angeles Festival of Books, The Printers Row Lit Festival (Chicago), The Mission Creek Festival (Iowa City), The Bethesda Book Festival (Maryland), The City Lit Festival (Baltimore),
The Provincetown Book Festival (Massachusetts), The Brattleboro Literary Festival (Vermont), The Texas Book Festival (Austin), and The Miami Book Fair.
--Two new pieces in Cosmonauts Avenue: "Holler" and "On Your Last Trip Out in the World."
--I'm a contributor to NPR's Takeaway program "Dear President: Letters to America's Next Leader" on August 23, 2016.
--Matt Gillick asks me one question about THE NARROW DOOR in Booktrib on August 12, 2016.
--I say a few words about Jane Bowles' TWO SERIOUS LADIES in Elle on June 24, 2016.
--Andrew Ervin and I read our contributions to CONJUNCTIONS' Affinity Issue at Penn Book Center on June 18, 2016.
--An outtake from THE NARROW DOOR, "Denise Was Near to the Bone," appears in LitHub, May 23, 2016.
--Lauren LeBlanc interviews me for Guernica on April 25, 2016.
--Claire Luchette interviews me for the Los Angeles Review of Books on April 25, 2016.
--I appear on PBS' Book View Now at the 2016 AWP Conference in Los Angeles.
--I receive a 2016-2017 Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
--I'm a guest on Aspen Public Radio's First Draft program on March 28, 2016.
--I'm a guest on West Coast Live's Live from Studio 55 on February 27, 2016.
--Alexander Chee reviews THE NARROW DOOR in The Sunday New York Times Book Review on February 12, 2016.
--Jill Talbot interviews me for Brevity on February 4, 2016.
--Meredith Marin reviews THE NARROW DOOR in The Chicago Tribune on January 24, 2016.
--An essay, "The Ways We Tried to Erase Each Other," appears in BuzzFeed.
--I write about Flannery O'Connor for The Atlantic.
--Vincent Scarpa interviews me for Electric Literature on January 18, 2016.
--Jennifer Senior reviews THE NARROW DOOR in The New York Times on January 17, 2016.
--Nathan Deuel reviews THE NARROW DOOR in The Los Angeles Times on January 15, 2016.
--Pasha Malla reviews THE NARROW DOOR in The Toronto Globe and Mail on January 15, 2016.
--Michael Carroll interviews me for Lambda Literary on January 7, 2016.
--Four more new stories--"Mrs. Tonnage," "Haircut," "Beardy," and "The Woods"--in New World Writing.
--Four new stories--"His Terrible Feelings," "Hollywood," "The Longest Life in the World," and "Boo"--in New World Writing.
--I say a few words about Joni Mitchell in Poets & Writers on December 17, 2015.
--THE NARROW DOOR is the official December (2015) selection of The Rumpus Book Club.
--Publishers Weekly reviews THE NARROW DOOR.
--Kirkus reviews THE NARROW DOOR.
--Graywolf Press releases my first two books, LAWNBOY and FAMOUS BUILDER, as ebooks on September 1, 2015.
--My essay, "The New Rhoda," appears in THE OFFING.
--A new story, "Biology," appears in STORYSCAPE.
--A new story, "Winston and the Ocean," appears in WEB CONJUNCTIONS:
--A new piece, "Days and Nights of Candlewood," appears in THE OFFING.
--A description of SELFISH, SHALLOW, AND SELF-ABSORBED: SIXTEEN WRITERS ON THE DECISION NOT TO HAVE KIDS (edited by Meghan Daum) in which my essay "The New Rhoda" appears.
--News about the relaunched StoryQuarterly, the literary magazine I edit at Rutgers University-Camden, in the Star Ledger.
--Some photos from the reading Michelle Dean, Sarah Perry, and I did for Shelf Life at Hullabaloo Books in Brooklyn, 2/14.
--An MP3 recording of my reading for the CONJUNCTIONS Menagerie issue at Brooklyn's Community Book Store, 1/14.
--Here I am reading at Kamilah Aisha Moon's book party at Dumbo Sky in Brooklyn, 11/8/13 (photo by Patrick Rosal).
--Three new stories: "Warning Beware of Alligator," "Grieg," and "House Sitter" appear in CONJUNCTIONS Menagerie issue.
--Two new stories in POST ROAD Magazine #25: "Beach Town" and "Liberty."
--Two stories forthcoming in ELM LEAVES JOURNAL: "Trent Loved Dick" and "Ugliest Child in America."
--On my reading at Literary Death Match in Philadelphia, 11/13.
--Poet and critic Stephanie Burt recommends my stories (along with others') in BOOKSLUT.