The destiny thief: essays on writing, writers, and life

The destiny thief

The gravestone and the commode (The Sewanee review, summer 2017)

Getting good (The Sewanee review, fall 2017)

Address to the graduates of Colby College

The pickwick papers (introduction to Modern Library Classics edition, 2003)

Imagining Jenny (afterword to Jennifer Boylan's She's not there: a life in two genders, 2003)

What frogs think: a defense of omniscience

Mark Twain's nonfiction (introduction to volume 2, Everyman's Library edition, 2016)

The boss in Bulgaria.