Reviews
- Missoula Independent, Sept. 15, 2011
- Joe Henry isn't sure if the book he wrote, Lime Creek, is a novel or a book of short stories, so his publisher, Random House, is just calling it "fiction."
- The Believer, June 2010
- I am thinking about a watch and all those mechanisms carefully crammed into so small a space, performing their exacting task so unrelentingly. . . .
- McSweeney's, Issue 33
- When Molina & Johnson starts, you are driving fast up a sunny coastal highway, listening to the solid folk rock of "Twenty Cycles to the Ground...."
- The Believer, May 2009
- "The protagonist of Ablutions works as a barback but spends most of his shift downing whiskey, popping pills, and sampling cocaine. . . . ."
- The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. XVI No. 1
- “Jonathan R. is crossing a tightrope of his own intestines. . . .”
- The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. XVI No. 2
- “Third-person is perhaps the point of view most often employed in metafiction, but first-person, as George Garrett shows us in this remarkable collection of stories, is the more natural fit for the form. . . .”
- The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. XVI No. 1
- “’Less is more, more or less,’ says a young writer across the creative-writing desk. . . .”
- The Quarterly Conversation, Issue 5, Fall 2006
- “’The imagination will not down,’ William Carlos Williams writes in The Great American Novel. . . .”
- The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. XV No. 3
- “To read Nabokov is to be “slain / By the false azure in the windowpane”: to come careening into his novels, poems, and stories on the tail of his incredible style . . . .”
- The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. XV No. 3
- “About his book Trawl, B. S. Johnson wrote, ‘It is a novel, I insisted and could prove; what it is not is fiction.’ . . . ”
Essays &
Interviews
- Missoula Independent, Oct. 27, 2011
- The Be Helds are a garage rock band, so when I go over to a house in the Lower Rattlesnake to meet them, we head out to the garage and they play loud and fast and surrounded by junk.
- Missoula Independent, Oct. 13, 2011
- Steve Albini grew up in Missoula, graduated from Hellgate High School, moved to Chicago, started a band called Big Black, made an album called Songs About Fucking, started a new band called Rapeman, started a newer band called Shellac, opened a studio and recorded albums by Nirvana and the Pixies, among thousands of others.
- The Believer, July / August 2008 //
Nominated for the 2009 Essay Prize
- “My CDs are kept on a shelf. When I think, ‘I would like to listen to some music,’ I go to that shelf and examine them, consider them. I look at the spines and think, ‘I could listen to that… or that. That’s pretty good… I haven’t listened to that in awhile.’ I think lots of things. . . .”
- The Believer, December / January 2006
- “Photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard, who was born in Normal, Illinois, in 1925 and died of cancer in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1972,worked his entire adult life as an optician,making lenses for glasses. . . . .”
- Context, 19
- “You can see something of Borges in The Celebration: in the way that the central event of the book—the event that gives it its title—is absent from its pages. . . . ”
- Context, 19
- “The Obstacles is, in a lot of ways, a coming-of-age story, but it’s also an incredibly ambitious—and achieved—book. How old were you when you wrote it? . . .”
- Context, 18
- “To get to Carbondale from Normal you go south on Main Street and just keep going. Cornfields replace the fast-food restaurants and strip malls.”
- Context, 18
- “Is this impulse both to use nonfiction and to abandon it influenced by your work in journalism?. . .”
Fiction
- The Portland Review, Winter 2011
- When I was a child, etc....
- Opium Magazine Online, Spring 2010
- I wore a welding helmet to the Halloween party (I was dressed up as my father, as only my brother identified), so it was like watching the world on widescreen...
- Joyland, February 2009
- “In Indiana, the itinerant portraitist wears a sweater and smokes a cigarillo. Richard Hawkmeat is his name. . . .”
- The Minus Times Online, March 2009
- “Hayes Richards, the first shift bartender, sits alone at the bar, looks around, winks at the webcam, tears the filter off a Newport, twists the tobacco out into an ashtray, and jams marijuana into the now empty paper tube with a ballpoint pen. . . .”
- Bailliwik, Issue 7, Autumn 2009
- "And so, though it is not trivial, Gil builds a tree house eighteen feet above the earth."
- The Minus Times, May 2009
- “In the year eighteen-hundred-and-sixty-something an ancestor of mine many times removed was peering through a periscope on the Hunley, the world’s first submarine, when a Yankee sailor fired something. . . .”
- Bailliwik, Issue 6, Autumn 2008
- “Standing somewhere far off in the American chaos, Gil Harp wonders, Were there worlds before this one?”
Journalism
- Great Lakes Boating, Sept / Oct 2008
- The Nordhavn 64 moored at the Chicago Yacht Club’s Monroe Harbor is gleaming white, clean like the soles of tennis shoes fresh out of the box. But while it may look untouched, this immaculate vessel certainly has its sea legs....
- Great Lakes Boating, Jan / Feb 2009
- Chicago is mooring its hopes of becoming an international waterfront destination on an unseemly strip of rocks and rubble and jagged wooden pylons....