Essays on Texas
Gettysburg Review: Killing Dun (Notable Essay: Best American Essays 2019)
The Oxford American: How Not to Raise Llamas
Michigan Quarterly Review: Migrants at the Door
New Letters: The Republic of Texas (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
Words Without Borders: The City and the Writer: Marfa
North Dakota Quarterly: Living Without Birds
Essays on Africa
The American Scholar: Letter from Maasailand
Huffington Post: Activism Refresh
Sierra: Baby Jack's Dark Journey
Fiction
Glimmer Train: Stealing Chickens
TriQuarterly: Park Bench of the Mind
Connecticut Review: Raid at Rockbridge Baths
Counterpunch: Hymn to the Koch Brothers
Experimental
Subtropics: When Presidents Surf Porn Theorem
Hobart / HAD: Artifacts from Bachelorhood
Other Essays
Glimmer Train: On Killing the Cursor (craft essay)
Truthout: The War of Extraction
The Pinch: A Man Who Tells No Stories
Southern Indiana Review: Tunki (forthcoming)
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"Park Bench of the Mind" (Fiction)
A story about the end of the road for a curmudgeonly old-timer looking back on his glory days.
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"Migrants at the Door" (Essay)
The dreaded knock came from a man who lived behind the world David inhabited. A migrant, injured and frantic, stood outside the door of his remote cabin.
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"When Presidents Surf Porn Theorem" (Experimental)
An attempt, using qualitative formulas, to prove presidents should surf porn.
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"How Not to Raise Llamas" (Essay)
After taking over the ranch, David fails a test of courage in solving the problem of an unruly llama.
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"Rustlers" (Essay)
David discovers that the ranch hand who has been stealing cattle has something in common with himself.
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"The McDannald Fire" (Essay)
David’s beloved ranch catches fire in a catastrophic blaze named after his family.
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"On the Baka of Cameroon" (Essay)
In the Central African jungle, while trying to find Baka still living away from roads, David joins a conflict over a Baka girl hit by a motorcycle.
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"The Republic of Texas" (Essay)
David leaves Wall Street to live on a West Texas ranch and uncovers family conflict bordering on myth.
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"Killing Dun" (Essay)
A notable essay in Best American Essays 2019, “Killing Dun” traces the last days of a beloved horse on a ranch near Marfa, Texas.
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"Letter from Maasailand" (Essay)
A modern Maasai teenager finds himself face to face with Masai warriors still living within older traditions.
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"Jack's Dark Journey" (Essay)
In eastern Cameroon, David and Ofir save a baby gorilla orphaned after the slaughter of its family by poachers.
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"Stealing Chickens" (Fiction)
“Stealing Chickens” is a story about a man rescuing child soldiers from the war in DRC. It led off the second to last issue of Glimmer Train.