Category: Books

• Book Tour Dispatch 005: Youngstown, OH/Ann Arbor, MI

  Feb 15

  Holy shit, Youngstown. That was a heck of a time. Terrific readings, my first time seeing an old friend in a few years, a great bar, and music playing by… more ›

• Book Tour Dispatch 004: Chicago, IL

  Feb 13

  I got to Chicago late last night, after Google Maps routed me through some of the loneliest roads in the state of Illinois. Today was relatively quiet: before heading over… more ›

• Book Tour Dispatch 003: Kansas City, MO/Quincy, IL

  Feb 11

  I’ll have a lot more to say about this year’s AWP in a later post. For now? It was great to catch up with friends in Kansas City from all… more ›

• Book Tour Dispatch 002: Columbus, OH/New Castle, IN

  Feb 7

  Some impressions on Columbus, Ohio from someone who’s never visited it before: Currently holed up in New Castle, Indiana catching up on some work en route to Kansas City. Which… more ›

• Book Tour Dispatch 001: Somerset, PA / Columbus, OH

  Feb 6

  Hello! I’m touring again. Solo, this time. The last time I did anything on this scale it was 2017 and duncan b. barlow and I got in his manual transmission… more ›

• A Cover & An Interview

  Oct 19

  A while back, I mentioned that Transitory is being reissued with some extra stories (think of it as the CD version of an LP and a 7″) by 7.13 Books… more ›

• Festival Life

  Oct 2

  I don’t think I’d realized how much I missed the Brooklyn Book Festival until yesterday. That has something to do with the fact that there was an iteration of the… more ›

• A Brief Update on Some Books

  Aug 18

  In case anyone’s been wondering… Just finished some edits and tweaks to the new edition of Transitory that 7.13 Books will be publishing in the coming months. I’m told that… more ›

• Getting Gothic With Jeff Noon

  Jul 12

  In 2020, I did a deep dive into Jeff Noon’s fiction for Tor.com. (Evidence the pandemic has destroyed my sense of time: that sentence initially began with the words “last… more ›

• A Pleasant Surprise

  Jun 26

  Was pleasantly surprised to learn that my novel Ex-Members is one of the finalists for this year’s Big Other Book Award for Fiction. The book’s in great company, alongside work… more ›