Fiction

Recent short fiction

Home Economics, about race, religion and high school in 1949, in Cagibi.

The Pikeman, about New Amsterdam in 1643, in Greyhound Journal.

Nila, about an emotional vampire, in Necessary Fiction.

I Pity the Fool, about birthdays and bowling, in Bodega.

Services, about the Korean War, in The Short Story Project.

Winter Break, 1986, about family responsibility and the pickle business, in Scud.

The First Hard Fight, short story about the Korean War and Queens and being Jewish in the 50s, at Cagibi.

Troopship, about young conscripts on a transport to the Korean War, originally published in Newtown Literary.

Book(s)

Uggs for Gaza and Other Stories, short story collection.

Novellas

Adjunctivitis, about academia and the gig economy in Los Angeles, Kindle Single.

False Economies, about an American in 1980s London, Kindle Single.

Selected Short Fiction

His Grandmother’s Memory, a short story about possession, Kindle Single.

Uncle Oatmeal, about recovering, or not recovering, in Killing the Buddha.

The German Photographer, about success and failure in New York City, originally published in The Parenthetical Review.

Bourges, 1990, about music and France before the Internet, in The Weekly Rumpus.

The Real Story of Nigel Embo, about race, art and male competition, in Jewish Fiction.

UGGs for Gaza: a story about love and lying in LA, in The Normal School.

Selected Very Short Fiction

Tohu-Bohu, in Zeek.

How to Make Classic Chicken and Rice, in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.