How to Stop Breaking Up: An essay I wrote about my wife and I, dating as booksellers, for The New York Times’ Modern Love column. Also translated for Vanity Fair, Italy.
I recently wrapped up a 30-month tenure with Humanities Washington’s Speakers Bureau, during which I traveled around beautiful Washington State, sharing my talk, “A Nicer Kind of Murder.” It details the evolution of the mystery genre and the growing role of empathy in contemporary crime fiction. Find my list of recommended titles related to the talk here.
Related… Has murder gotten…nicer? I explore the role of empathy in the mystery genre in “How Crime Fiction Evolved in Fourteen Murders,” published online by Humanities Washington and in print in SPARK magazine.
Blood on the Prairie: an essay I wrote for The Daily Beast about the origins of the Hammerman and the real crimes that have finally been solved.​
My short fiction can be found in Sou’wester, The Master’s Review, The Chatahoochee Review, Fugue, 580-Split, Painted Bride Quarterly, Joyland, The Florida Review, The Spokesman Review, The Evansville Review, Weber Studies, and elsewhere.
Want to support a good cause? Underground Writing is an efficient and effective nonprofit in Skagit County, Washington that coordinates creative writing mentorships for incarcerated writers, as well as offers writing classes in detention centers, migrant centers, recovery centers, and more. They do good.
A few other interviews & miscellany:
- Reading Habits: An interview with Humanities Washington, and another with theKREM-2 Book Club, and another in The Comet for Write on the River (page 12).
- ​Radio Interview with KGNU/Boulder Book Store, and After Hours at the Radio Bookclub.
- Radio Interview on Colorado Public Radio: He Worked at The Tattered Cover. Now His Mystery is Based There. Click to listen.
- A blog piece for The Page 69 test for the Campaign for the American Reader.
- “Indies to Die For” in THE STRAND MAGAZINE
- A piece about getting a bookstore job in SHELF AWARENESS
- TWO DECADES OF READING BESIDE THE WOMAN I LOVE published in LIT HUB,
- interviews in THE BIG THRILL (with E.M. Powell); in THE QWILLERY; in TRUNK SPACE; and as GOODREADS Debut Author of the Month.