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ARTICLES:
 "Profile of John Irving" TIME magazine, April 23, 2012
"Calendar Girl" Esquire, March 2012
"Lonesome" Oxford American, Annual Southern Music Issue, December 2011.
"Lab Rat: Liver Detox" Men's Health, December 2011
"Get a Job: the importance of work in prose and poetry" Poets & Writers magazine, Nov/Dec 2011
"Literary Outlaw: a Profile of Daniel Woodrell" Men's Journal, October 2011
"Snip, Snip" GQ magazine, October 2011
"September 11" (as one of eleven American writers asked to contribute to a feature on the 10th anniversary of the attacks) Oest-France newspaper. September 11, 2011.
"Jackson Hole: Take Monday Off" The Wall Street Journal, August 13, 2011
"Biking and Boozing the Willamette Valley" Outside, August 2011
Profile of musicians (and first-time novelists) Steve Earle and Josh Ritter, Poets & Writers, July/August 2011
"Up in the Air" Outside magazine, February 2011
"A Conversation with Peter Straub" Tin House magazine, "Mysterious Issue" Spring 2011.
"Taking Tree-Hugging to New Heights" The Wall Street Journal (Weekend Edition), October 9, 2010
"Am I Repeating Myself? Meaningful Repetition in Fiction and Nonfiction" Poets & Writers magazine, November/December 2010
"The Art of Violence Part II" (with Aaron Gwyn), Poets & Writers magazine, July/August 2011
"The Art of Violence Part I" (with Aaron Gwyn), Poets & Writers magazine, May/June 2011
"The Savage Reader" Esquire, August 2010
"Revision as Renovation" Poets & Writers magazine, May/June 2010. To read the article, click here.
"Never Been" Outside Magazine, May 2010.
"Zeitgeist of Doom" Orion Magazine, January/February 2010.
"The Disrespected" Esquire, November 2009.
"Go the Distance: What Rocky Taught Me About Submission" Poets & Writers magazine, November/December 2009.
"Triangulate Dialogue" in Poets & Writers, July/August, 2009.
Contributor to the "50 Funniest Books Ever Written." Micro-essays on Airships by Barry Hannah and Dogwalker by Arthur Bradford. Esquire UK. February, 2009.
"Rabbit Remembered: Obit for John Updike" Esquire.com, January 2009.
"The Lost Geek Conquering Hollywood With Comic Books" Esquire, December, 2008.
"Real Men Drive Dodges" Esquire, July 2008
"Exit Devil" Men's Journal, February 2008.
"The Virtual Workout" Men's Journal, January, 2008
"The Great Novel I Never Read" Slate, October 30, 2007
"I Heart Bacon" Esquire, December, 2007
"Voice of the Ozarks" Esquire, October 2007
"Daddy's Got a Gun" Esquire.com, September 2007. Click here to read.
Profile of Hayward, Wisconsin as part of "Best Telecommuting Towns" feature. Men's Journal, March 2007
RADIO:
"Oh, the Humanities" All Things Considered, NPR, January 27, 2011
"Devilishly Good Books Terrify -- and Delight." For All Things Considered, National Public Radio, October 31, 2008. Click here to listen to the podcast.
"The Merit of a Man." For All Things Considered, National Public Radio, September, 17 2007. Click here to listen to the podcast.
ESSAYS:
"Urgency in Fiction" Poets & Writers magazine, TBA
"All In" Glimmer Train (Bulletin), October 2010
"Invasion" Fugue, 20th anniversary issue themed around the changing West, 2010.
"Me vs. Animals" The Paris Review, Winter Issue, 2009/10.
"Great Moments in Cinema Ruined by Cookies" McSweeney's, Summer 2009
"Bottles in a Midnight Sea" Mississippi Review, Fall 2008
"A Dark Kind of Pleasure" Opium Magazine, Volume 6, Spring 2007
"The Huntsman" The Other Chechov. New American Press, 2007
"Five Westerns I Will Never Stop Reading" Frost Proof Review, Spring 2007
"Wal-Mart and the Apocalypse and Me" Green Mountains Review, Spring 2007
"In the Quiet Depths of Cattle Land" Wisconsin Academy Review, January 2006
BOOK REVIEWS:
The Wind Through The Keyhole by Stephen King, Esquire, March 2012
Calico Joe by John Grisham, Esquire, March 2012
"Feast Day of Fools" by James Lee Burke, Esquire, October 2011
"We the Animals" by Justin Torres, Esquire, September 2011
"American Masculine" by Shann Ray, Esquire, June 2011
"The Only Thing Worse Than Boring Porn is Chuck Palahniuk's New Novel About Boring Porn," a review of Chuck Palahniuk's Snuff , June 2008. Esquire.com
"Still King," a review of Stephen King's Duma Key, Esquire.com , February 2008
"The After Story," a review of Larry Watson's Sundown, Yellow Moon . Esquire.com. December 2007.
"Blood on his Hands," a review of Percival Everett's The Water Cure, Esquire.com, October 2007
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy, The Capital Times, December 22, 2006
"The Traveler" by John Twelve Hawks, The Capital Times, December 23, 2005
"Between Camelots" by David Harris Ebenbach, The Capital Times, November 11, 2005
"Novel" by George Singleton, The Capital Times, September 9, 2005
"If You Lived Here I'd Know Your Name" by Heather Lende, The Capital Times, August 26, 2005
"The Coast of Akron " by Adrienne Miller, The Capital Times, August 12, 2005
"The Evil B.B. Chow" by Steve Almond, The Capital Times, May 6, 2005
"The Vagabonds" by Nicholas Delbanco, The Capital Times, March 11, 2005
"Let's Do" by Rebecca Meacham, The Capital Times, February 5, 2005
"Five Shades of Shadow" by Tracy Daugherty, Crab Orchard Review, Spring 2004
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