BOOKS
Hitless Wonder: A Life in Minor League Rock and Roll. Forthcoming from Lyons Press in June 2012. A memoir about the twenty-plus years I’ve spent playing in Watershed.
IN NATIONAL MAGAZINES
“Esquire in Real Life.” Esquire 150.3 (2008). Gay pirates hit New Orleans.
“It’s a Buckeye’s Life.” Sports Illustrated Presents Ohio State: A Celebration of Buckeyes Football (2008). It’s impossible for OSU football fans to separate their memories from the team’s highs and lows.
“The Complaint: Hotel Bar Names.” Esquire 149.6 (2008). Why are hotel bar names so crappy?
“The Death of the Dead Schembechlers.” Esquire 147.2 (2007). The demise of The Best Damn Punk Band In The Land.
My contributions to Esquire‘s Best Bars in America series:
- “Deep Eddy Cabaret.” Austin, TX. (2008)
- “Parkway Tavern.” Tacoma, WA. (2008)
- “Doyle’s Public House.” Tacoma, WA. (2008)
- “Andyman’s Treehouse.” Columbus, OH. (2007)
- “Five O’Clock Bar.” Cleveland, OH. (2007)
- “Beachland Ballroom.” Cleveland, OH. (2007)
- “Surly Girl Saloon.” Columbus, OH. (2007)
- “Mitzi Jerman’s.” Cleveland, OH. (2007)
IN LITERARY JOURNALS
“The Mercy Kill.” The Normal School 5.1. (2012) An ex-priest, an ex-nun, and murder in the suburbs.
“Los Camioneros.” The Louisville Review 70. (2011). A play about three immigrant smugglers. Based on true events.
“Age of Consent.” Barrelhouse 9. (2011). Excerpted from Hitless Wonder. Modern girls and modern rock and roll.
“The Encore.” Iron Horse Literary Review 12.1 (2010). Excerpted from Hitless Wonder. Why getting laid on the road is nigh impossible.
“The Bodyman.” Fourth Genre 10.2 (2008). A profile of the great Dave Cook. Special Mention in The Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses 2010. Shortlisted for The Best American Essays 2009.
“Barreling into Uncool.” Barrelhouse 6 (2008). A man makes love to my CD collection.
“In Any August.” Passages North 29.1 (2008). Hot fun in the summertime.
“Trouble Doll.” Backwards City Review 3.2 (2007). A short story about a Guatemalan trouble doll, stuck in corporate hell. Really.
“Tricoter.” Ninth Letter 4.1 (2007). The American and his girl in Paris. Shortlisted for The Best American Essays 2008.
“The Low Season.” Cimarron Review 159 (2007). How to finance a trip trough Mexico by attending timeshare presentations.
“This Essay Doesn’t Rock.” Barrelhouse 3 (2006). A diatribe on the misuse of the word rock. Shortlisted for The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007.
IN ONLINE MAGAZINES
“This Machine No Longer Kills Fascists (Did it Ever?).” White Space (2012). An essay about the connection between music and politics. “Popular music only has two clear policy directives: 1. Party! and 2. Buy shit!”
“Towing and Recovery.” storySouth (2011). A story about a working class guy struggling with adulthood. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
“Sealing the Deal.” Swink (2010). Excerpted from Hitless Wonder. Sex, New York style.
“Hard Love Nasty Mag.” Sweet (2009). Back when porn was tough to find…
“You Can’t Switch Off the Sun.” Paranoid Lovesick (2009). Cleveland’s greatest power pop band.
“The Engagement Party.” Pindeldyboz (2008). Excerpted from Hitless Wonder. Second or third best van breakdown story I know.
“Simpatico.” Waccamaw (2008). What do you do when you’re stranded in the Mexican jungle?
“Two Haircuts.” Small Spiral Notebook (2007). I wasn’t always bald.
IN ACADEMIC JOURNALS
“Knights of the Napkin: Waiters as Class-Enforcers in David Copperfield.” Victorians Institute Journal VIJ Digital Annex 39. (2012). If you’re wondering how Victorian-era waiters both enforce and reinforce the class system that keeps them stagnate, then I’m your man, and this is your paper.
