I wrote about Kim Fu’s short story “Sandman,” from her collection Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, for Electric Literature. You can read both my introduction and the story itself here.

Sequoia Nagamatsu, author of How High We Go in the Dark, has an essay in Electric Literature in which he recommends my novel The Illumination as one of “seven books about navigating a post-pandemic world.” You can read it here.

Roughly fifteen years ago, the wonderful character actor Philip Baker Hall (whom you would almost certainly recognize from Magnolia, Zodiac, and many other films) read my story “Small Degrees” before a live audience for WORDTheatre. For the next two months, until March 2, WORD is making that performance available for free listening on its short story podcast. You can find the recording here or through your favorite podcasting service.

Philip Martin of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has some smart things to say about The Ghost Variations in his year-end reading column.

I’m posting this about nine months late, but Sam Sacks reviewed The Ghost Variations in the Wall Street Journal. You can read his thoughts here.

I provided an annotated list of my five favorite novels about ghosts for shepherd.com. You can read it here.

NPR’s Book of the Day podcast recently featured The Ghost Variations along with Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence. (That makes two books of the day, but I’ll allow it.) You can listen to the feature here.

Bookforum asked its contributors to name the best books they read in 2021. Justin Taylor praised The Ghost Variations. You can read his thoughts here.

Electric Literature’s curated Halloween reading list includes The Ghost Variations. You can read the list here.

I conversed with Connor Syrewicz of Barzakh Magazine about The Ghost Variations, inbetweenness, the vexations of sentence-making, seeking pleasure in reading and writing, and many other topics for a feature titled “Nothing Is Quite What We Imagine It to Be.” You can read it here.

Lia Lent, of Little Rock’s WordsWorth Books, recommended The Ghost Variations for Minnesota Public Radio’s “Ask a Bookseller” feature. You can listen to the short segment here.

The website Semiovox, dedicated to semiotic analysis of the kind that “reveals not just what things mean, but how,” recently republished a short essay I wrote about a significant object in my life: a Wendy’s saladmobile.

The Rolla, MO, band Begin at Zero have recorded a song inspired by my story “The Ceiling.” You can listen to or purchase the song through their Bandcamp page, here.

Ryan Smernoff writes about The Ghost Variations for the Los Angeles Review of Books.

The fiction writer, critic, and anthologist Lincoln Michel shares a few words about The Ghost Variations on his Substack newsletter, Counter Craft.

The jacket for The Ghost Variations, lovingly designed by Kelly Blair, was featured in Lithub’s “Best Book Covers of March” roundup.

Pantheon has added a permanent Ghost Roulette feature to their Instagram grid. Simply click on the image to set the 100 ghost icons from The Ghost Variations in motion, and then click again to answer that pressing question: “Which Ghost Are You?”

Philip Martin is a columnist and reviewer for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, my home state newspaper. I’ve been reading and admiring his work since I was seventeen. Here he writes about The Ghost Variations.

Rich Fisher at Public Radio Tulsa and I had a half-hour conversation about The Ghost Variations. You can listen to it here.

I was asked to contribute an essay to a forthcoming volume of appreciations of Marilynne Robinson, my teacher and eventual colleague at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Literary Hub published my contribution here.