Books:
The History of Sound: Stories (Viking, 2024)
Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau (Tin House, 2022)
Selected Essays:
On a 19th-century Dildo Found in a Chimney:
"He's-at-Home" Lit Hub
"Farewell to Winter, Farewell to My Fingetip" The Paris Review Daily
On a 19th-century Sea Serpent Sighting:
"The Monstrous Serpent was Real!" Salon.com
On the History of Being Swallowed by a Whale:
"Swallowed by a Whale -- A True Tale?" Salon.com
On Civil War Reenacting:
"Dispatches from Civil War Reenactments" McSweeney's Internet Tendency
On the Names of Wind:
"A Taxonomy of Wind," The Paris Review Daily
On Sleeping Outside:
"The Unexpected Poetry of Sleeping Outside" Lit Hub
On Arctic Exploration:
"In an Arctic that Never Was, and Soon Will Be No More" Lit Hub
On The North Shore:
"Cape Fear" The Morning News, December 7, 2011