Writing

Book:

Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times (June 2005) A 2005 San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book Available at a bookstore near you or via Amazon, Powells, B&N, Booksense

Essays and Commentary:

• "Book Review Kerfuffle"
  KQED Public Radio | July 13, 2007
• "Indie Bookstores Face Uphill Battle"
  Poets & Writers | November/December 2006
• "Citizen Media: The High School Years"
  Fast Company | October 2006
• "The End and Dawn of a New Era: Commentary on Bay Area Indepedent Bookstores"
  KQED Radio | July 24, 2006
• "The Brannock Device"
  Dailysonic | June 2, 2006
• "The Day Gen X Grew Up"
  Baltimore Sun | February 3, 2006
• "How I Learned About Writing Fiction by Not Writing It"
  Powells.com | July 2005
• On Conducting a Virtual Book Tour
  An exclusive for Amazon.com | June 2005
• Tool: Sketchers S-Lights
  The Believer | September 2004
• Contributed short articles to Issues 11 and 12 of Readymade
  Readymade | April 2004-May 2004
• Tool: The Ace Heavy-Duty Glue Gun
  The Believer | October 2003
• "In the Whale's Throat or How I Spent a Single Afternoon at Book Expo America and Lived to Tell About It."
  Inkblots Magazine | Summer 2003
• "Summer Reading: A Perspective"
  KQED Public Radio | May 31, 2003
• "Counting Flags"
  Fray.com | July 4, 2002
• The Lessons of Oprah's Book Club
  AlterNet | April 8, 2002
• "An Open Letter to Stephen Ambrose"
  AlterNet | January 22, 2002
• "The Wandering Warrior", an Interview with Nicholson Baker on his book Double Fold
  AlterNet, May 15, 2001

Book Criticism:

• "Murder and suicide in Thailand and their consequences" San Francisco Chronicle | Feb. 18, 2007
• "Easter Rising: An Irish American Coming up From Under" by Michael Patrick MacDonald
  San Francisco Chronicle | Sept. 27, 2006
• "Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas." by Chuck Klosterman
  Los Angeles Times | September 24, 2006
• "Song for My Fathers" by By Tom Sancton
  San Francisco Chronicle | June 23, 2006
• "The Bill From My Father" by Bernard Cooper
  San Francisco Chronicle | February 12, 2006
• "De Kooning's Bicycle: Artists and Writers in the Hamptons" by Robert Long
  San Francisco Chronicle | December 11, 2005
• "The Education of Arnold Hitler" by Marc Estrin
  San Francisco Chronicle | April 3, 2005
• "Havana World Series" by Jose Latour
  San Francicso Chronicle | February 29, 2004
• "Crazy in the Kitchen" by Louise DeSalvo
  San Francicso Chronicle | January 18, 2004
• "The Arborgast Case" by Thomas Hettche
  San Francicso Chronicle | December 21, 2003
• "Tiger in a Trance" by Max Lundington
  San Francicso Chronicle | September 7, 2003
• "The Wandering Hill" by Larry McMurtry
  San Francisco Chronicle | July 6, 2003
• "Red Ant House" by Ann Cummins
  East Bay Express | April 30, 2003
• "Officer Friendly and Other Stories" by Lewis Robinson
  San Francisco Chronicle | March 23, 2003
• "Jubillee King" by Jesse Sheppard
  San Francisco Chronicle | March 16, 2003
• "Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper" by Stephen J. Dubner
  San Francisco Chronicle | February 23, 2003
• "The Last Good Chance" by Tom Barbash
  San Francisco Chronicle | February 2, 2003
• "The Adventures of Lucky Pierre" by Robert Coover
  San Francisco Chronicle | November 10, 2002
• "The Partly Cloudy Patriot" by Sarah Vowell
  San Francisco Chronicle | September 29, 2002
• "Letters to a Young Novelist" by Mario Vargas Llosa
  East Bay Express | June 26, 2002
• "Sin Killer" by Larry McMurtry
  San Francisco Chronicle | May 26, 2002
• "Ernie's Ark" by Monica Wood
  San Francisco Chronicle | May 19, 2002
• "You Got Nothing Coming" by Jimmy Lerner
  San Francisco Chronicle | February 17, 2002
• "Rapture" by Susan Minot
  San Francisco Chronicle | January 27, 2002
• "The Ambidextrist" by Peter Rock
  San Francisco Chronicle | January 20, 2002
• "Lit Life" by Kurt Wenzel
  San Francisco Chronicle | July 29, 2001
• "Up In The Air" by Walter Kirn
  San Francisco Chronicle | July 16, 2001