Criticism

• Genre Primeval: How the Western Evolved into the Crime Novel (CrimeReads)

Essay on Elmore Leonard

• A Countrified Rumpelstiltskin: On the Visceral, Versatile Stories of Brad Watson (LitHub)

Essay on Brad Watson

• Trial and Error: A Writing Tip (Cleaver Magazine)

Craft Essay

• The Orange-Peel Garnish: How Un-Telling Details Bring Characters to Life (Novel Suspects)

Craft Essay

• The Best Multi-generational Family Sagas that Put the “Opera” into “Soap Opera” (Shepherd)

Recommendation List

• The Barbarian Princess (Deep South Magazine)

Essay on author Florence King

• The Fictional Gordon Lish (Passages North)

Essay on Gordon Lish and two novels that feature characters based on him

• Layman’s Report by Eugene Marten (The Rumpus)

Review

• We the Narrators (The Millions)

Essay on the first-person-plural POV

• Barry Hannah’s “Lost” Novel (The Millions)

Essay on Nightwatchmen by Barry Hannah

• The Last Book I Loved (The Rumpus)

Review of Smonk by Tom Franklin

• Exiles of Historical Fiction (The Millions)

Review of Exiles by Ron Hansen

• The Last Book I Loved (The Rumpus)

Review of Firework by Eugene Marten

• Read, Ponder, Repeat (Esquire)

Review of Remainder by Tom McCarthy

• You’ve Got to Hear This! (Esquire)

Review of You Don’t Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem

• What’s That Sound? (Esquire)

Review of Lost Echoes by Joe R. Lansdale