Selected Prose
Afterword Essay for 75th anniversary issue of Chicago Review
Abasement, in The Map Is Not the Territory, reprinted in Best American Essays 2022, ed. Alexander Chee
Fish, Pole: On Thinking What to Do, in Grand
The Year in Letters, in Tin House
“Coming Up with Guy Davenport,” in The Oxford American
Differences from Yesterday, a Day Like Today, in Essay Daily
from Proxies
On the Near Term, in Full Stop
On the Leave, in Oar
On the Understory, in The Offing
On the Ingenue, in StoryQuarterly
On Dossiers, in BOMB
On Frottage, in Harper’s Magazine
On Reset, at PEN/America
On Minutes, in Brick
On Withdrawal, in NoMorePotlucks
On Propositionizing, in Conjunctions
On Br’er Rabbit, in Conjunctions
On The Locus Amoenus, in Seneca Review
On Foot Washing, in Seneca Review
On Man Roulette, in Seneca Review
On Sardines, in Or
On Completism, in Or
On Owls, in Or