Unpublished Essays

2024: “Bad Boy”; “Writing and Failure”

2023: “My Father’s Earring”; “Letting the Repellent In”

2021: “The Man on the Ledge”; “The Denizen”

2020: “The Hope of the Text”; “It’s Not OK, Boomer”; “Joßche (expanded)”; “The Performer”; “The Embowered Imagination SHORT”; “Goodbye Aunt Jemima”; “On Teaching at a Shitty College”

2019: “The Grove and the Tower”; “Out of the Burrow: A Personal Essay on the Fear of Success”; “Mothers, Hard and Soft”; “Getting the Ending Right”; “Of a High Noon in June”; “In the Bookstore”; “The Dioramic Imagination”; “My Exceptionalism”; “My Special Place”; “On the Desire for Validation”; “The Proust Effect“; “SWEETNESS AND LIGHT”

2018: “The Four Mornings”; “The Irrecoverable”; “Living in the Past”; “The Purveyor”

2017: “A Biographical Fantasia”; “The Gift”; “The Master of Names”; “My Facebook Problem”; “On Not Being a Genius”; “Sadness”; “Unpublished”

2016: “Bloody Stumps and Donald Trump”; “Carlo Agonistes”; “Missing the Minor Period”; “My Minordom”; “Self-Abuse”; “My Racism”; “Joßche (A Reflection on the Pressure of Happiness)”