Essays, Interviews, Reviews, Podcasts from other websites

An interview about Nelson Algren, with Chris Nolte on “Regionally Speaking,” Lakeshore Public Radio.

“Flying the W: Returning to Chicago for the World Series”, an essay for Somesuch Stories.

“Fiction of the American Underclasses”, a Top Ten list for Bookanista.

“Readers on Location–Chicago”, a short essay on my home city for The Literary Sofa.

“The Corners of Attachment–Imagining the Spaces between the Facts”, an essay for the Foyle’s blog.

A short article about creative writing as an academic discipline that I wrote with my friend Bob for The Guardian.

The How & The Why: podcast of a live discussion in Los Angeles between Tuna Bora (artist), Lon Koontz (editor) and me, mostly about the process of working on Sing for Life: Tin Pan Alley but also quite a bit about commas.

Unpublished extract from “Narrative Proximity in the work of Nelson Algren”, an academic essay published in American, British and Canadian Studies.

Podcast of a public lecture, “Berlin, Seventh of November–History in Nonhistorical Fiction”, at the London School of Economics.

Screeching Weasel entry from Sobriquet Magazine Encyclopedia of Punk.

An interview from 2009 on Literary Lotus.

An interview (in German) on the Kiepenheuer & Witsch Website.

“Good Ole Boys, Never Meanin’ No Harm”, a very short story.

“Too Many Notes: A Selective History of Punk Rock Guitar Solos”, an essay written for (insert title here) in 2001.

An essay on the short story “Korea” by John McGahern, from Journal of the Short Story in English Volume 53 (Autumn 2009).