BOOKS:
A Nation Gone Blind: America in an Age of Simplification and Deceit, Shoemaker & Hoard 2006
The Decline and Fall of the American Nation, unpublished
The End of the 19th Century, unpublished
I Am Zoë Handke, Algonquin Books 1992
An American Memory, Algonquin Books 1988 Anchor paperback, 1989
—Lindhardt & Ringhof (Copenhagen), 1989
—Editions Griot (Paris), 1994
SHORT FICTION:
"The Death of Leonora," New England Review, Autumn 1984
"Zoë’s Dream," Ohio Review, Spring 1984 (#32)
"Visitor," New England Review, Autumn 1982
"Hannah," Ohio Review, Spring 1982 (#27)
"The Photographs," Prairie Schooner Autumn 1981
"Babies," The North American Review, June 1981
"The Lake," Prairie Schooner, Winter 1980-81
"Gregory and Carlotta," Carleton Miscellany, Winter 1979-80
"My Father Goes to War," South Dakota Review, Autumn 1978
"Katie’s Eyes Are Normal Now," Parents' Magazine, Aug. 1977
"Travel Notes: Fragments from Smyrna," North American Review, Fall 1975
"Sixteen Pieces," Perspective, Spring 1975
"Fragments for the Death of My Grandfather," South Dakota Review, Spring 1975
"Notes on Three Unwritten Stories," Carleton Miscellany, Fall-Winter 1972-73
"Feast," South Dakota Review, Fall 1971
"Legacy," North American Review, Spring 1971
"Skirmish," South Dakota Review, Winter 1966
NON-FICTION:
"Writing and Nostalgia: Hiding in the Past," New England Review, June 1983 (Reprinted in Writing in a Nuclear Age, ed. Jim Schley [University Press of New England, 1988])
"American Eye: A Writer’s Congress," North American Review, December 1981
"Kosinski Again: A Letter of Dissent," North American Review, June 1980
"Popular Anne Frank," Carleton Miscellany, Winter 1979-80
"When Dad Becomes a House-Husband," Parents' Magazine, July 1978
"Flirting with Guilt and Tyranny," Harper’s, December 1977
"Reconsideration: The Quiet American," The New Republic, August 7, 1976
"Notes on Emptiness: The State of Fiction," South Dakota Review, Autumn 1975
"How Do You Write a Short Story in 1972?", Minnesota Review, Summer 1973
"Prelude to a Proposal," Carleton Miscellany, Winter 1970
"The Barrier of Language: the Irony of Language in Faulkner," Modern Fiction Studies, Spring 1967
"A Note on Culture," College English, May 1966
REVIEWS (partial list)
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?, by Lori Moore, L.A.Times (11/27/94)
A Thousand Benjamins, by Michael Kun, L.A.Times (7/22/90)
The Coast of Chicago, by Stuart Dybek, L.A.Times (5/20/90)
Economies of the Heart, by Christopher Zenowich, L.A.Times
Rootie Kakzootie, by Lawrence Naumoff, L.A.Times (1/21/90)
Love and Will, by Stephen Dixon, L.A.Times (12/3/89)
A Place for Us, by Nicholas Gage, L.A.Times (11/26/89)
Keep the Change, by Thomas McGuane, L.A.Times (9/17/89)
Affliction, by Russell Banks, L.A.Times (8/20/89)
Resonating Bodies, by Lynn Alexander, L.A.Times 8/6/89)
Breaking Gentle, by Beverly Lowry, L.A.Times (10/16/88)
All Her Children, by Dan Wakefield, Commonweal (2/18/77)
There Must Be More to Love than Death, by Charles Newman, The Nation (11/6/76)
PRIZES
1988—Heartland Prize for Best Novel (awarded by The Chicago Tribune)
1982—NY State Creative Artists Performance Series (CAPS) fellowship
NEW: Read a self-interview by the author with the author on the subject of A Nation Gone Blind: America in an Age of Simplification and Deceit.