Comments on life, literature, parties, and basketball.
Forthcoming: Degas at the Gas Station: Essays. Earlier books: Seduction Theory, The Sleep-Over Artist, J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist, Lost in the Game. Contributor: New Yorker, NY Times, Airmail. Professor at Tulane.
I write gift guides for people who read books. I link to all sorts of things.
Essays about literature, the craft of writing, the body and illness, and other obsessions.