• “The Ne Plus Ultra of Cross Country Skiing” Kinesis (Fall 1995); 9-11.
• “Return to Dodge City” Cream City Review (Fall 1994); 243-251.
• “Strings Attached: Kansas Basketball” Kansas Alumni (Winter 1994); 31-33.
• “Love and Death in the Machine Age” Buffalo Spree (Summer 1993); 76-79.
• “Of Cattle, Bush Hogs, and Men” Buffalo Spree (Winter 1992); 96-101.
• "Feedlot Cowboy" Manifest West: Contemporary Cowboy (Gunnison, Colorado: Western Press Books, 2013).
  
• ³The Fight² Bayou (forthcoming Spring 2013).
  

Fiction

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  “Radials” Buffalo Spree (Spring 1997); 74-79.
• “Nickel City” Northeast Corridor (Winter 1995); 83-100.
• “Justice” Strictly Fiction II (Summer 1995); 112-123.

Literary Criticism

• “Contemporary Realism” Cambridge Companion to American Fiction Since 1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012); 30-43.
• “Minimalist/Maximalist Fiction” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011); 706-709.
• “William T. Vollmann” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011); 890-891.
• “Turncoat: Why Jonathan Franzen Finally Said ‘No’ to Po-Mo” The Mourning After: Attending the Wake of Postmodernism (New York: Rodopi, 2007); 201-221.
• “Hick Chic, Huck Finn, and the ‘White Trash Aesthetic’” Kansas English (Vol. 81, 1995); 26-37.
• “Born to Lose: The Modern White Prison Novel as Bildungsroman” Concrete Garden (Vol. 2, 1994); 129-141.

Book Reviews

• Review of William T. Vollmann’s Riding Toward Everywhere
  The Georgia Review (Summer 2009); 350-353.
• Review of Jennifer Brice’s Unlearning to Fly
  The Georgia Review (Summer 2008); 442-445.
• Review of Robert Root (Ed.), Landscapes with Figures: The Nonfiction of Place
  The Georgia Review (Winter 2007); 874-876.
• “Descartes Du Jour,” review of William Gass’s Cartesian Sonata
  The Riverfront Times (October14-20, 1998); 38.
• “Far From Home,” review of Dale Peck’s Now It’s Time to Say Goodbye
  The Riverfront Times (August 19-25, 1998); 75.
• “Repeat Performance,” review of T.M. McNally’s Almost Home
  The Riverfront Times (June 3-9, 1998); 77.
• “Goodwill Hunting,” review of Robert Olen Butler’s The Deep Green Sea
  The Riverfront Times (April 22-26, 1998); 36, 38-39.
• “Double Duty,” review of Lionel Shriver’s Double Fault
  The Riverfront Times (September 3-9, 1997); 67.
• “Rain Gauge,” review of Lewis Nordan’s Lightning Song
  The Riverfront Times (July 2-8, 1997); 72.
• “Moody Blues,” review of Rick Moody’s Purple America
  The Riverfront Times (April 23-29, 1997); 33.
• “All in the Family, review of Larry Brown’s Father and Son
  The Riverfront Times (October 16-22, 1996); 69.
• “Gordon Weaver: Writer of the Middle Distance”
  High Plains Literary Review (April 1995); 101-106.
• “Cormac McCarthy Crosses Over,” review of The Crossing
  The Bookpress (March 1994); 6, 15.
• “Bringing the War Home,” review of Thom Jones’s The Pugilist at Rest
  The Bookpress (March 1994); 5, 19.
• “Memoirs of a Road Warrior,” review of Chris Offutt’s The Same River Twice
  The Bookpress (February 1994); 5, 17.
• “Western Perplexities,” review of Thomas McGuane’s Nothing But Blue Skies
  The Bookpress (December 1992); 7, 10.