Writings
"Congo"
Short fiction
"Tomo"
Short story published in Prick of the Spindle, Fall 2012
"Sightseeing" by Sabine Gruber
Translation, published in Two Lines (2005), of Austrian author Sabine Gruber's short story "Wahrzeichen."
“The Poet” by Hermann Hesse
My translation of Hesse's short story about a young man who seemingly has it all but wants above all else to become a poet. Co-won second prize in the 1998 Robert Fitzgerald Translation Prize. To be published in the premier issue of Place Quarterly.
"Richard Powers’s Urgent Orfeo: Can Art Save Us?"
Review of Richard Powers's eleventh novel, Orfeo, from The Arts Fuse, 1/27/14
“Jane Eyre” Rewired: Margot Livesey's “The Flight of Gemma Hardy”
Review of the Margot Livesey novel.
"Odd, Intriguing Stories of Quacks and Cures"
Book review of Dr. Olaf van Schuler's Brain by Kirsten Menger-Anderson
"Battling Evil and Its Long Reach"
Review of two literary crime novels, rereleased in English for the first time in 40 years by New York Review Books Classics, by one of Sicily's--and Italy's--most famous 20th-century writers, Leonardo Sciascia.
"Auster Explores the Mysteries and Mechanics of Reality"
From The Boston Sunday Globe, February 15, 2004, a review of Paul Auster’s eleventh novel, Oracle Night.
"That's an Interesting Question, Oprah"
Prose poem/Performance piece