Essays

A YouTube View of Deion Sanders

September 9, 2023

I Finally Watched “Seinfeld”

November 24, 2022

A Memory of Recklessness in the Face of Disaster

april 13, 2020

Smoking Cigarettes Saved My Life

June 28, 2019

Two Lessons in Prejudice

August 26, 2017

The Ultimate Protest Vote

October 28, 2016

How to Write About Trauma

August 13, 2016

What Iranian Identity Means to an Outsider

July 27, 2015

The Reunion

April 26, 2015

The Name on My Coffee Cup

March 20, 2015

Blood on the Tracts

june 2014

My Mother's Psychotherapy—and Mine

October 26, 2014

Remembering My Mother's Obsession

February 2, 2014

Howard Stern, My Literary Idol

october 6, 2013

The Relatable Fury of the Incredible Hulk

july 8, 2013

Notes from a Bystander

issue 40, 2012

A Commie-Pinko in Cancún

january 30, 2011

Two Wheels, No Waiting

july 2009

Favorite Signatures: from Ginsberg to Sedaris

august 26, 2008

When Skateboards Will Be Free

fall 2005

My Mother and the Stranger

GROVE PRESS, 2011

Runaway Train

PLUME, 2009

Dark Man at the Airport

OPEN CITY BOOKS, 2009

War and Duane Reade

MISTER BELLER'S NEIGHBORHOOD, 2009

South Dakota

ECCO PRESS, 2008

Iran

HARPER PERENNIAL, 2006