A review of Moishe Nadir's That Is How It Is appears in Tablet.
Hung Like an Obelisk, Hard as an Olympian: An alphabet of English-language literature in Paris appears in Issue #4 of New Haven Review.
A review of Ghérasim Luca's The Passive Vampire appears in the Summer Books Issue of The Forward.
Last Man Standing, an essay on John Zorn, appears in the May 2009 issue of Harper's (subscription only).
A chapbook of three stories, Four Art Pieces Plus Two, will be published by ML Press in Fall 2009.
A cycle of 12 stories, Bridge & Tunnel (& Tunnel & Bridge), will be published by The Cupboard in Fall 2009.
An essay on the literature of Coney Island appears in Tablet.
New Haven Review (A Heaven of Others, reviewed)
A story, Pick Me Up, appears in Agriculture Reader No. 3.
An essay on Jakov Lind appears as Introduction to his Landscape in Concrete, newly published by Open Letter Books.
A story, Untitled: A Review, is mentioned in The Nation.
An interview at <HTMLGIANT> includes two new fictions, Virus, and My Newest Site.
An essay on Jewish writers and writing of the (last) Depression appears in Tablet.
A story, Slush, part of the story cycle Bridge & Tunnel (& Tunnel & Bridge), appears in The Fanzine.
North Vain, an excerpt from North Vain, Bluff, appears in Harp & Altar.
(North Vain, Bluff is the second novel in a series entitled Two Great Russian Novels.)
Penn Statement, written for a Pennsylvania State University symposium on Jewish literature in America, 11/12/08, is available here.
The Office, a five-part, five-day-long essay on the Office Writings of Franz Kafka, appears in Tablet:
An appreciation of Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto from orbis quintus.
A preview of Witz appears as part of the Last Line series in Esquire Magazine.
A review of Jack Kerouac's and William S. Burroughs' And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks appears in Time Out - New York.
An essay on Caravaggio’s The Taking of Christ (or, The Kiss of Judas) appears in The Believer (available here).
An essay on the painter Soshana appears in Tablet.
A review of Emmett Grogan’s Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps appears in Time Out - New York.
A story commemorating the end of the W. Bush presidency, entitled Reagan, Z., appears in 3AM Magazine.
A review of Jed Perl's Antoine's Alphabet appears in Time Out - New York.
The Reading Experience (A Heaven of Others, reviewed)
A review of Mircea Cărtărescu's Nostalgia appears in the New Haven Review.
Purist of the Self, an extended review of Henry-Louis de La Grange's four-volume, five-thousand page biography of Gustav Mahler, appears in the July 2008 issue of Harper's (available here).
The Buffalo News (A Heaven of Others, reviewed)
A Rough Guide to Tzaraat, a new essay on Scriptural skin disease, appears at Jbooks.com.
A rediscovery, from Bookslut: on Daniil Kharms.
PopMatters (A Heaven of Others, reviewed)
A story, Towards a New New York Protest, a Britished version of Toward a New Protest, has been published in 3:AM: London, New York, Paris, published by Social Disease here and in the UK.
An essay "On Writing A Heaven of Others" appears in the February installment of Jbooks.com. Download the original version here: JBooks_Heaven.pdf.
Brooklyn Rail (A Heaven of Others, reviewed)
An interview regarding A Heaven of Others appears in the January 19th edition of The Forward.
KGB LIT (Aleph-Bet: An Alphabet for the Perplexed, reviewed)
The Literary Review (Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto, reviewed)
An excerpt from "Shabbos Dinner, with Letterforms," from Aleph-Bet: An Alphabet for the Perplexed, appears in the August 15th edition of The Forward.
A review of Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto appears in the August 2007 issue of The Believer.
Anecdotal Evidence (The Quorum, reviewed)
The Reading Experience (Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto, reviewed)
Bookslut (Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto, reviewed)
A story, On getting the sheets to stay on the bed... will appear in Awake! A Reader for the Sleepless, edited by Steven Beeber, Soft Skull Press, 2007.
A story, Image for an Unfinished Essay on Franz Kafka, was published in The New-York Ghost.
A story, Last Transmission, or Man with a Robotic Ermine, appears in the anthology Text:UR - The New Book of Masks, Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2006.