Author of the novels, A Still Small Voice (Delacorte Press / Delta), The Whole (Simon & Schuster / Pocket / MTV Books), the SPD bestseller, Snowball's Chance (Roof Books / Melville House), All The World's A Grave: A New Play By William Shakespeare (Penguin Books / Plume), and Tales of Woe (MTV Press); an ebook of three previously published and one forthcoming essay on the subject of Shakespeare & “the authorship question” is forthcoming in 2015 from Byliner; an ebook of three previously published and one forthcoming essay on the subject of Orwell & Animal Farm is forthcoming in 2015 from Byliner; fellowship Columbia University; MFA in Creative Writing, Columbia University; published in (selected) Intercourse, the Brooklyn Rail, Tin House, Paper Magazine, Artforum, Bomb Magazine, Playboy, Out Magazine, Art in America, the PEN Poetry Series, the Los Angeles Times, the Paris Review, the Believer, the Rumpus, the Daily Beast, Gawker, Slate, the Wall Street Journal, ElectricLit; frequent contributor to Vice; Vice Magazine "Employee of the Month," for the essay, "My Grandma the Poisoner," which was Longform’s #1 Most Entertaining Essay of 2014, and will be included in 2015's Best American Essays (Houghton Mifflin); his work is also forthcoming in the 2015 anthologies Devouring the Green (Jaded Ibis) and StoryScape Anthology V2; previously collected in The Brooklyn Rail Fiction Anthology (Hanging Loose); 100 Greatest Albums (VH1), American Wasteland (CLMP), Vitamin PH (Phaidon); works translated into German, French, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Korean; television writing distinctions include a LOGO Glad Award and an MTV Music Video Viewer's Choice Award; performances, workshops and readings of plays in New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, including at the Public Theater in NYC and the Brooklyn Books Festival; two-term member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle; current faculty at The New School University and The New York Arts Program.
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