PUBLICATION LIST

Novel

• Family Resemblances (Random House, 1986)
  (published in England by Pan Books, 1987)
  (Vintage Contemporary paperback, 1988)

Stories

• "Barranca, King of the Tree Streets," Edges, ed. Ursula K. Le Guin and Virginia Kidd (Pocket Books, 1980)
• "The Cold Room," Stories #4, March-April 1983 (reprinted in The Best American Short Stories 1984, edited by John Updike with Shannon Ravenel)
• "No Kick from Champagne," The Ohio Review #32, 1984
• "Naked Women," StoryQuarterly #20, 1985
  (reprinted in The American Story: The Best of StoryQuarterly, Cane Hill Press, 1990)
• "Vital Signs," Writer's Bar-B-Q, Autumn 1987
• "Meditation on Bangs," Imagine Vol. II, No. 2, 1990

Memoirs & Personal Essays

• "On Love and Space," Missouri Review Vol. X, No. 2, April 1987
• "Country Places," Southwest Review, Vol. 78, No. 3, summer 1993.
• "Elusive Powers," Many Mountains Moving, Winter 1996
• "Fox on the Shore," Ecotone vol. 3 No. 1, Fall 2007

On Teaching Writing

• "Why Fiction, Why Criticize?" in How Writers Teach Writing, ed. Nancy Kline (Prentice-Hall, 1992)
• "Essay and Story, Essay as Story," in What Do I Know?: Reading, Writing and Teaching the Essay, ed. Janis Forman (Heinemann, 1996)
• "Eleven Things You Could Start Doing Today for the Benefit of Your Students’ Writing." co-author: Jane Kokernak. Tomorrow’s Professor message #824, Oct. 23, 2007. Read online

Literary Criticism

• "The Duke's Children: Reflection and Reconciliation," Modern Language Quarterly, September 1978
• "Mirrors, the Dead Child, Snagsby's Secret, and Esther," English Language Notes, December 1978
• "'Poor Singletons': Definitions of Humanity in the Stories of James Tiptree, Jr.," Science-Fiction Studies, November 1979
• "Dreaming the Other in The Golden Apples," Modern Fiction Studies, Autumn 1982
• "Eudora Welty's The Golden Apples," Post Road no. 13, 2006

Reviews

• The Novel-Machine: The Theory and Fiction of Anthony Trollope, by Walter M. Kendrick, reviewed in Modern Language Quarterly, September 1980
• Cold Spring Harbor, by Richard Yates, reviewed in New York Times Book Review, October 5,1986
• Best American Short Stories 1986, ed. Raymond Carver with Shannon Ravenel, reviewed in Boston Review, December 1986
• Five Hundred Scorpions, by Shelby Hearon, reviewed in New York Times Book Review, May 10, 1987
• Continent, by Jim Crace, reviewed in Boston Review, August 1987
• The Gift of Stones, by Jim Crace, reviewed in Boston Review, August 1989