Author of the novels, A Still Small Voice  (Delacorte Press), The Whole (MTV / Simon & Schuster), the SPD bestseller, Snowball's Chance (Roof Books, forthcoming 2012 in a tenth anniversary edition from Melville House), All The World's A Grave: A New Play By William Shakespeare  (Penguin / Plume), and Tales of Woe (MTV Press); MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University; Senior Editor, the Brooklyn Rail; published in (selected): Paper Magazine, Popmatters, the New York Press, Timeout New York, Artforum, Bomb Magazine, Playboy, Art in America, the PEN Poetry Series, the Los Angeles Times, the Believer, the Rumpus, the Daily Beast, the Wall Street Journal; current member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle.