Choice cuts:
“Little Boy“ Hair Trigger Anthology, 2009. Winner of a Gold Circle award from Columbia University for Best Experimental Fiction.
“The K2 Rush” (Originally published in Chicago Talks, 2010.)
“Red Light“ Hair Trigger Anthology, 2011.
“Do You Like Me? Click Yes or No.” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, 2011. (Voted by The Awl’s Splitsider.com as one of 2011′s best humor pieces.)
Various. Freelance fact-based humor for Cracked.com:
-5 Disturbing New Ways Debt Collectors Are Getting Your Money.
-The 7 Most Impressively Lazy Employees of All-Time.
-The 6 Creepiest Things Discovered by New Homeowners.
“Xtreme Walden.” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, 2012.
“Willy Loman Contemplates Twittercide.” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, 2012 (Republished by Gizmodo).
“Yossarian Goes to the Airport” The Bygone Bureau, 2012.
“Raymond Chandler’s The Man Who Repaired Laptops.“ McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, 2012.
“Literary Couchsurfing References.” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, 2013. (Write-up from the Boston Globe)
(In 2012 I won the McSweeney’s Columnist Contest. These are those pieces):
“I Could Not Imagine Those Blues.”
“Like Cusack Crying in the Rain (A Love Story in the Key of E).”
“Nighttime Blues, Nuclear Display.”
“Pledge of Allegiance Got Me Worried.”
“A Very Brief History of the Blues as Popular Music.”
“Black Orphans and Laugh Tracks: Part I.”
“Black Orphans and Laugh Tracks: Part II.”
“Impressions of Chicago, 1950.”
“Impressions of Chicago, 1997: Part I.”
“Impressions of Chicago, 1997: Part II.”
