Fiction
Excerpt from
St. Burl's Obituary
(paperback from Harvest Books)
Life with the Easter Bunny,
a short story originally published in the
Missouri Review
Where Martin Is Now
, a short story originally published in the
Los Angeles Times Magazine
.
The Writers Market:
of writing, farming and a strange form of largesse. A version appeared in the
Wall Street Journal.
Essays
Cheap Eats
(from the Wilson Quarterly)
Buyer's Remorse
(from the Wilson Quarterly)
Out of Fashion
(from The Wall Street Journal)
Hands Off!
(from
Technology Review
)
On Fatherhood
(from the
LA Times
Magazine)
Time Out!
(a Father's Day meditation from the Wall Street Journal)
Why Indexing is Evil
(from
Slate
)
Laboring Children
(from the New York Times)
Imagining the Digital Divide
(from the Industry Standard)
The Kids Are All Right
(from the Wall Street Journal)
Journalism
One Man's Vernacular
(from Metropolis)
The Very Model of a Modern Modular
(from the Wall Street Journal)
Finding Fault for the Fat
(Boston Globe)
Excerpt from
Wonder Boy:
Barry Minkow, the Kid Who Swindled Wall Street
(Scribners, 1990).
The House That Roared (from Money Magazine):
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Numbers That Are Money
, or The Soul of a New Currency (from
LA Times
Magazine)
The Eighties, Not Misremembered
(from the LA Times Magazine)
Literary Journalism
Review of
The Corrections
(from the Wall Street Journal)
Father of the Mall
reviewed (from the Wall Street Journal)
The Money Vanishes (From Literature)
(from the Wall Street Journal)
On Being Leftover
(from the
LA Times
)
Rostock or Bust
(from the LA Weekly)
Review of
A Nation Transformed by Information
(Industry Standard)
Review of
The Swine's Wedding
(from Newsday)
Review of
The Silicon Boys
(San Jose Mercury)
Review of
All On Fire
(San Jose Mercury)
Review of
Theodore Rex
(Newark Star Ledger)
Review of
The Everlasting Story of Nory
(from LA Weekly)
Review of
Mason & Dixon
(from San Jose Mercury News)
Review of
When We Were Orphans
(from San Jose Mercury News)
Review of
From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State
(from Washington Monthly)
Review of
House of Gucci
(Wall Street Journal)
Review of
The Fly-Swatter
(from Smithsonian)
Review of
Greenspan
(Industry Standard)
Review of
Fire in the Valley
(Industry Standard)
Review of
Otis: Giving Rise to the Modern City
(Wall Street Journal)
Review of
On Top of the World
(Newsday)
Review of
Collision Course
(Wilson Quarterly)
Interview:
Scott Spencer
(Newsday)
Etc.
My week-long
Breakfast Table
exchange in
Slate