BOOKS
Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon
forthcoming Verso, October 2021
The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing,
Harvard 2009. (reviews and other press)
The Novel Art: Elevations of American Fiction after Henry James,
Princeton 2001.
SELECTED ARTICLES
(many of these have been uploaded to Academia.edu)
“Unspeakable Conventionality: The Perversity of the Kindle”
American Literary History, 2021
“Philip Roth’s Modest Phase”
Post-45, April 2, 2019
“Gigantic Realism: The Rise of the Novel and the Comedy of Scale”
Critical Inquiry, winter 2017
“Everything and Less: Fiction in the Age of Amazon”
Modern Language Quarterly September 2016
“The Novel’s Forking Path: Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island“
Public Books, April 1, 2015
“The Institution of Nothing: David Foster Wallace in the Program”
Boundary 2, fall 2014
“Dark Times: On the 21st Century Gothic” (A Review of Victoria Nelson’s Gothicka)
The Los Angeles Review of Books
“Timing”
The Critical Pulse: Thirty-Six Credos by Contemporary Critics
“The New Cultural Geology”
Twentieth Century Literature, Fall/Winter 2011 [published August 2012]
“The Posthuman Comedy”
Critical Inquiry, Spring 2012
“The MFA Octopus: Four Questions About Creative Writing”
The Los Angeles Review of Books May, 2011
“The Novel, Mass Culture, Mass Media”
The Cambridge History of the American Novel (2011)
“Ordinary Doom: Literary Studies in the Waste Land of the Present”
New Literary History Fall 2010
“The Zombie Renaissance”
n+1 no.9 spring 2010
“Understanding Iowa: Flannery O’Connor B.A., M.F.A.”
American Literary History, Summer 2007
“Learning from Little Tree: The Political Education of the Counterculture”
Yale Journal of Criticism, Fall 2005
“The Program Era: Pluralisms of Postwar American Fiction”
Critical Inquiry, Fall 2005
“Social Geometries: Taking Place in Henry James”
Representations, 68, Autumn 1999, 59-83.
“Making ‘Literature’ of It: Hammett and High Culture”
American Literary History, 9.4, Winter 1997, 702-717.
“Making It Big: Picturing the Radio Age in King Kong”
Critical Inquiry, 22.3, Spring 1996, 415-445.