You Don't Love Me Yet (Doubleday, 2007)
The Disappointment Artist: Essays (Doubleday, 2005)
Men and Cartoons: Stories (Doubleday, 2004)
The Fortress of Solitude (Doubleday, 2003)
This Shape We’re In (McSweeney’s, 2000)
Motherless Brooklyn (Doubleday, 1999)
Girl in Landscape (Doubleday, 1998)
As She Climbed Across the Table (Doubleday, 1997)
Wall of the Sky, Wall of the Eye (Harcourt Brace, 1996)
Amnesia Moon (Harcourt Brace, 1995)
Gun with Occasional Music (Harcourt Brace, 1994)

As Editor

Da Capo Best Music Writing 2002: The Year’s Finest Writing on Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country, & More (Da Capo, 2002)
The Vintage Book of Amnesia:An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss (Vintage, 2000)

With Carter Scholz

Kafka Americana (Subterranean Press, 1999)

ESSAYS

Contribution to Fiction Symposium (Fence, forthcoming)
“an orchestra of light that was electric” (Black Clock, forthcoming)
Commencement address, Bennington College, June 2005
Introduction to Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick (FSG, forthcoming)
Liner note for Unfaithfully Yours DVD (Criterion Collection, July 2005)
“Uncried Tears” (O Magazine, June 2005)
“Donald Sutherland’s Buttocks” (Nerve, March 2005)
Introduction to The Man Who Lost the Sea: Volume X: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon by Theodore Sturgeon (North Atlantic Books, 2005)
“So Who’s Perkus Tooth, Anyway?” (Washington Post Book World, 2005)
“The Beards” (The New Yorker, 2005)
“Rick James” (New York Times Magazine, December 2004)
“Otis Redding’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” (Black Clock, 2004)
Introduction to A New Life by Bernard Malamud (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004)
Two Or Three Things I Dunno About Cassavetes (Granta, July 2004)
Review of Christopher Ricks (New York Times Book Review, June 2004)
“Books Are Sandwiches” (Book Club Cookbook, 2004)
“Bowels of Compassion” (Mortification, 2004)
“Patchwork Planet” (Brooklyn Magazine, 2004)
squib on Gaddis’s “The Recognitions” (Conjunctions, 2004)
“Esplanade Fugue” (Lincoln Center Review, 2004)
“My Marvel Years” (London Review of Books, April 2004)
“Clerk” (Brick, 2004)
“The Loneliest Book I’ve Read” (Remarkable Reads, 2004)
“Who’s Afraid of Doctor Strange?” (Bookforum, 2003)
“On It Happened In Boston?” LA Weekly, 2003)
Introduction to It Happened In Boston? by Russell Greenan (Modern Library Classics, 2003)
Squib on Stan Brakhage DVD (Rolling Stone, Summer 2003)
Introduction to Meeting Evil by Thomas Berger (Simon & Schuster, 2003)
“Uncertainty Principal” (Village Voice, May 2003)
Liner Note for The Killers DVD (Criterion Collection, 2003)
Introduction to Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens (Modern Library Classics, 2003)
“Charles Dickens, Animal Novelist” (The Believer, April 2003)
“The Disappointment Artist: Edward Dahlberg's Recipe for Crocodile Tears” (Harper's, February 2003)
“Top Five Depressed Superheroes” (Shout Magazine, December 2002)
“My Egyptian Cousin” (London Review of Books, December 2002)
“You Don't Know Dick” (Bookforum, Summer 2002)
“Alone at the Movies” (The New Yorker, Summer 2002)
“People Who Died” (GQ, August 2002)
Review of Spiderman (London Review of Books, June 2002)
Introduction to On the Yard by Malcolm Braly (New York Review of Books Classics, 2002)
“Hazel” (Cabinet Magazine, Spring 2002)
Review of New York Characters (New York Observer, December 10, 2001)
“Stop Making Sense” (Rolling Stone, October 25, 2001)
Introduction to The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton (Modern Library Classics, 2001)
“Dear Stacy” (Open Letters, 2001)
“Further Reports in a Dead Language” (Rolling Stone, September 2001)
“Nine Failures of the Imagination” (New York Times, September 2001)
Squib on Geoff Dyer (Entertainment Weekly, 2001)
“The Man in the Back Row Has a Question” (Paris Review, Summer 2001)
On The Clash (New York Observer, 2001)
“Who’s Afraid of Doctor Strange?” (Bookforum, Summer 2001)
Birthday greeting to Bob Dylan (Rolling Stone, June 2001)
“Yoked in Gowanus” (Brick Magazine, June 2001)
Review of Glue by Irvine Welsh (New York Times, May 2001)
In Memoriam Joey Ramone (New York Times Op-Ed, April 2001)
Liner notes for The Maggies' CD Breakfast at Brelreck's (March 2001)
Introduction to Poor George by Paula Fox (W.W. Norton, 2001)
“Defending the Searchers” (Tin House, Winter 2000–2001)
“The Williamsburg Trilogy” (Tin House #2, 2000)
Book Tour Diaries (Bold Type, November 2000)
“The Lair of the Collector (House and Gardens, 2000)
On the subway series (New York Newsday, October 2000)
Review of When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro (Bookforum, Fall 2000)
“Hitchhiking in Nevada Is Illegal” (Rolling Stone, July 2000)
Contributions to the Salon Guide to Contemporary Authors (August 2000)
Review of Despair and Other Stories by Andre Alexis (New York Times, January 9, 2000)
Review of Tough Tough Toys for Tough Tough Boys by Will Self ( New York Times, June 20, 1999)
Introduction to Mockingbird by Walter Tevis (Ballantine, October 1, 1999)
Review of Past Forgetting by Jill Robinson (Salon, October 1999)
List: “Five Terrific Novels Overshadowed by their Film Versions” (Salon, October 1999)
On Rod Serling (Gadfly, September–October 1999)
Review of Rock of Ages by Salman Rushie ( Village Voice, April 1999)
Review of A Cursing Brain: Histories of Tourette Syndrome by Howard Kushner (Salon, April 1999)
“Mistakes Were Made,” an exchange with Ray Davis (New York Review of Science Fiction , December 1998)
Review of Hurlyburly ( Salon, December 1998)
Review of James Naremore’s More Than Night (Bookforum, 1998)
Review of Gods and Monsters ( Salon, November 1998)
Review of Totally, Tenderly, Tragically by Philip Lopate ( Salon, November 1998)
Review of Happiness ( Salon , October 1998)
Review of Hit Me ( Salon, October 1998)
Review of Gary Cooper: An American Hero by Jeffrey Meyers ( Salon, June 1998)
“The Squandered Promise of Science Fiction” (Village Voice, June 1998)
On Charles Finney's The Unholy City (Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October/November 1998)
“Body, Landscape, Symptom” (Boldtype, May 1998)
Review of Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood by Todd McCarthy (Salon, July 1997)
On John Wayne (Salon, July 1997)
On John Barth’s End of the Road (Boldtype, March 1997)
On Shirley Jackson (Salon, January 1997)
Profile of Jonathan Richman (Pulse! October 1996)
Review of Virtual Light byWilliam Gibson (New York Review of Science Fiction November 1993)
Review of Elvissey by Jack Womack (New York Review of Science Fiction February 1993)

STORIES

“Interview With The Crab” (Bread #1, 2005)
“Drew Barrymore Stories” (Another Magazine, Spring/Summer 2005)
“The Collector” (Fred Thomaselli catalog, 2004)
“Vivian Relf” (McSweeney’s, 2004)
“Zeppelin Parable” (McSweeney's 12, 2004)
“The National Anthem” (Black Clock, 2004)
“Super Goat Man” (The New Yorker, April 2004)
“Fish Suspicion” collaboration with Aimee Bender (Westchester Journal News, September 2003)
“The Vision” (Tin House, 2003)
“Children with Hangovers” (Lit, 2003)
“The Dystopianist” (Conjunctions 39, 2002)
“Liner Note” (Tin House, Winter 2001-2002)
“Entry of Buildings” (2001 Stories, March 2002)
chapbook of “The Mad Brooklynite” (Synaesthesia Press, 2001)
“Underberg excerpt” (Black Book, 2001)
“The Spray” (Fetish, Four Walls Eight Windows Press, 1998)
“K Is for Fake” (McSweeney’s 4, 2000)
“Man Jet” (Nerve, January 2000)
“Planet Big Zero” (Lit, Fall 1999)
“Biosphere” (Esquire, September 1999)
“Ninety Percent of Everything” with James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel (Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1999)
“Tugboat Syndrome” (The Paris Review, issue 151, Summer 1999)
“The Glasses” (The Village Voice Literary Supplement, April–May 1999)
“Missed Opportunities” (McSweeney’s, 1999)
“The Mad Brooklynite” (McSweeneys #2, 1998)
“Tourette Rhapsodies #’s 1, 2, and 3” (Bombay Gin, Fall 1998)
“Access Fantasy” (Starlight 2, Tor Books, 1998) (anthology)
“Five Fucks” (Nebula Awards Anthology 1997, Harcourt Brace, 1998)
“The Darcy Bee” (story collaboration) (Omni Online, February 1998)
“The Edge of the Bed of Forever” with Angus MacDonald (Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1997)
“Martyr and Pesty” (Lethal Kisses, Millenium, 1997) (anthology)
“How We Got in Town and Out Again” (Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September 1996)
“The One About the Green Detective” (Unusual Suspects Anthology, Vintage/Black Lizard 1996)
“Holidays” (Crank! #6,Winter 1996)
“The Birth of Utopia Noir” (Pulse, July 1996)
“The Hardened Criminals” (Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology, Tor Books, December 1995)
“The True History of the End of the World” with James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October/November 1995)
“Light and the Sufferer” (Century 1,1995)
“The Insipid Profession of Jonathan Horneboom” (Full Spectrum 5, 1995)
“Receding Horizon” with Carter Scholz (Crank! #5; Summer 1995)
“Call Waiting” (Exquisite Corpse, April 1995)
“From Kafka Americana: The Notebooks of Bob K.” (Gas, January 1995)
“Willing It Over the Wall, or the Nine Billion Names of Babe Ruth” (Crank! #4, Autumn 1994)
“Mood Bender” (Crank! #3, Spring 1994)
“Forever, Said the Duck”( Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, December 1993)
“The Precocious Objects” (Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, December 1993)
“The Happy Prince” (Crank! #2, Winter 1993)
“Hugh Merrow” (Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October/November 1993)
“His Oral History” (Crank! #1, Autumn 1993)
“Waiting Under Water” (Jejune, September 1993)
“A Small Patch on My Contract” (Interzone, April 1993)
“Vanilla Dunk” (Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September 1992)
“The Speckless Cathedral” (Interzone, March 1992)
“Ad Man” (Science Fiction Review, March 1992)
“The Elvis National Theater of Okinawa” with Lukas Jaeger (In Dreams, Gollancz, 1992)
“Program's Progress” (Universe 2, 1992)
“The Happy Man” (Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, February 1991)
“Walking the Moons” (New Pathways, September 1990)
“Using It and Losing It” (Journal Wired, Summer/Fall 1990)
“Neighbor Bob” (Journal Wired, Summer/Fall 1990)
“A Mirror for Heaven” (Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine, Summer 1990)
“Noodling” (Journal Wired, Spring 1990)
“The Buff” (Pulphouse,1990)
“A Wish” (Pulphouse, 1989)
“The Cave Beneath the Falls” (Aboriginal SF, January/February 1989)