News
The latest updates.
Refund chosen as a “Favorite Book of 2015” in the San Francisco Chronicle
10 Dec 2015Molly Antopol selects “Refund” as a favorite book of 2015. You can read her review and the list here.
Interview with Jeffrey Brown of PBS’ Book View Now
24 Nov 2015Jeffrey Brown interviews me at the Miami Book Fair for the PBS show Book View Now. You can watch the interview here.
My story, “Anything For Money,” on Electric Literature site
20 Nov 2015“Anything For Money,” which appeared in Zoetrope and is part of my collection “Refund,” is a Recommended Reading selection on the Electric Literature site, with an intro by my editor, Dan Smetanka. You can read the story here.
Interview up on the Lithub site
13 Nov 2015Critic Jonathan Russell Clark interviews me for Lithub. You can read the interview here.
Interview up on National Book Award site
11 Nov 2015Courtney Maum interviews me for the NBA site. You can read the interview here.
Entertainment Weekly includes Refund in roundup of NBA Finalists
31 Oct 2015Entertainment Weekly analyzes the NBA Finalists, introducing me as the “Short Story Virtuoso.” !!! You can read the article here. 
Refund is a Finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction!
14 Oct 2015Refund has been selected as a Finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. You can read the announcement here.
Refund is on the Longlist for the National Book Award in Fiction
17 Sep 2015Refund is included on the Longlist for the National Book Award in fiction. !!!!!!!!
You can see the entire list here:
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Hollins University for 2015-2016
01 Sep 2015Very happy that I am the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, for the 2015-2016 academic year. Here’s a link:
New essay in Real Simple magazine
02 Jul 2015“We didn’t know that the house was inhabited. We just knew that it was free.” New essay appears in the July issue of Real Simple. You can read the essay here.
Refund is on the Shortlist for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award
05 Jun 2015Refund is on the Frank O’Connor Story Award shortlist! You can read about it here.
Interview at the Los Angeles Review of Books site
21 May 2015Nancy Spiller interviews me for LARB. You can read the interview here.
My story “Free Lunch” is the featured story this week on Storyville App
20 May 2015The link to the Storyville App site is here.
Refund is on the Longlist for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize
29 Apr 2015You can see the entire list of books here.
“Like Normal People” is recommended by Meg Wolitzer in O magazine
14 Apr 2015In the May issue of O magazine, Meg Wolitzer is one of 15 authors recommending 
a book that should be rediscovered; she chose Like Normal People. You can read her recommendation here.