SELECTED FICTION
According to Alice, a short story published in The New Yorker on November 13, 2023.
Hello, World! a five-part series of conversations with AI chatbots, published online in The Paris Review over the course of the week of November 14, 2022.
Just a Little Fever, a short story published in The New Yorker on April 11, 2022.
A Diary in Alphabetical Order, serialized over ten weeks in the Opinion pages of The New York Times, from January 19, 2022.
Grayness, a short story published in The New Yorker, July 2020.
My Life is a Joke, a short story published in The New Yorker, May 2015. (It was discussed on the New Yorker Fiction Podcast by Deborah Triesman and Ottessa Moshfegh on July 2, 2018. Listen here.)
Squirrel Attacks Man with Nuts, a short story about an empty Christmas holiday, published in Vice, January 2010.
There Is No Time in Waterloo (PDF), written for McSweeney's Issue 32. Story conceived with Margaux Williamson. October 2009.
A Logical Love Story, a story about trying to write a story with one's father in the hospital. Published in Triple Canopy, issue 1, March 2008.
The Poet and the Novelist as Roommates, a story from The Middle Stories, published on muumuu house, Spring 2001.
The Girl who Planted Flowers, a short story from The Middle Stories, published on Muumuu House, Spring 2001.
Mermaid in a Jar, a short story from The Middle Stories, published in Spring 2001.
The Fundamental Race, a short story from The Middle Stories, published in McSweeney's.