I’m the books columnist for San Diego CityBeat and The Floating Library
runs every other week. I also occasionally review books for the Los Angeles Times,
The Los Angeles Review of Books and other outlets.
Manuel Paul López’s These Days of Candy
San Diego CityBeat
November 1, 2017
Danielle Pafunda, Carmen Marie Machado & Stephen Graham Jones
San Diego CityBeat
October 16, 2017
Elizabeth Hand’s Fire.
San Diego CityBeat
October 2, 2017
Dorothy L. Hughes In a Lonely Place
San Diego CityBeat
September 20, 2017
Ben Loory’s Tales of Flying and Falling
San Diego CityBeat
September 13, 2017
Brian Allen Carr’s Sip
San Diego CityBeat
September 5, 2017
Sean Carswell’s Occupy Pynchon
San Diego CityBeat
August 21, 2017
J.K. Huysmans’s Là-bas
San Diego CityBeat
August 9, 2017
Erika L. Sánchez’s Lessons in Expulsion
San Diego CityBeat
July 25, 2017
Fabio Bourbon’s The Lost Cities of the Mayas
San Diego CityBeat
July 10, 2017
Kevin Barry’s Beatlebone
San Diego CityBeat
June 26, 2017
Don Winslow’s The Force
Los Angeles Times
June 16, 2017
Courtney E. Morgan’s The Seven Autopsies of Nora Hanneman
San Diego CityBeat
June 12, 2017
Leonora Carrington’s The Complete Works of Leonora Carrington & Down Below
San Diego CityBeat
May 30, 2017
Ian McGuire’s The North Water
San Diego CityBeat
May 16, 2017
Meg Howrey’s The Wanderers
San Diego CityBeat
May 1, 2017
Alberto López Pulido and Rigoberto “Rigo” Reyes San Diego Low Riders
San Diego CityBeat
April 17, 2017
Fiona Maazel’s A Little More Human
Los Angeles Times
April 6, 2017
Layli Long Soldier’s Whereas
San Diego CityBeat
April 3, 2017
Bridget Quinn’s Broad Strokes
San Diego CityBeat
March 20, 2017
Chinaka Hodge’s Dated Emcees
San Diego CityBeat
March 7, 2017
Jason DeBoer’s Annihilation Songs
San Diego CityBeat
February 20, 2017
Jade Chang’s The Wangs vs. The World
San Diego CityBeat
February 6, 2017
Joshua Mohr’s Sirens
San Diego CityBeat
January 23, 2017
Joanna Walsh’s Hotel
San Diego CityBeat
January 9, 2017
Chris Bachelder’s The Throwback Special
San Diego CityBeat
December 28, 2016
Meredith Allings’s Sing the Song
San Diego CityBeat
December 12, 2016
Black Candies: Gross and Unlikable
San Diego CityBeat
November 28, 2016
Edward Gorey’s The Haunted Looking Glass
San Diego CityBeat
November 14, 2016
Jen George’s The Babysitter at Rest
San Diego CityBeat
October 31, 2016
Jeff Jackson’s Novi Sad and Brian Evenson’s The Warren
San Diego CityBeat
October 17, 2016
Gina Frangello’s Every Kind of Wanting
San Diego CityBeat
October 3, 2016
Scott McClanahan & Ricardo Cavolo’s The Incantations of Daniel Johnston
San Diego CityBeat
September 19, 2016
Tommy Pico’s IRL
San Diego CityBeat
September 14, 2016
Clarice Lispector’s Near to the Wild Heart
The Scofield
September 7, 2016
Tobias Carroll’s Transitory
San Diego CityBeat
August 30, 2016
Exploring Lisbon with Fernando Pessoa
Photos of Casa Fernando Pessoa in Lisbon
San Diego CityBeat
August 8, 2016
NOFX’s Hepatitis Bathtub
San Diego CityBeat
July 6, 2016
The Remarkable Influence of Yoko Ogawa
San Diego CityBeat
June 13, 2016
Preview of Dark Summer Reads
San Diego CityBeat
May 16, 2016
Sara Majka’s Cities I’ve Never Lived In and Matt Sumell’s Making Nice
San Diego CityBeat
April 25, 2016
Simon J. Ortiz’s Men on the Moon
San Diego CityBeat
April 4, 2016
Idra Novey’s Ways to Disappear & Raphael Montes’s Perfect Days
Los Angeles Review of Books
March 18, 2016
Kristine Ong Muslim’s Age of Blight
San Diego CityBeat
March 14, 2016
Ricky Jay’s Matthias Buchinger: The Greatest German Living
Los Angeles Times
March 3, 2016
Brian Evenson’s A Collapse of Horses
San Diego CityBeat
February 29, 2016
Louise Hall’s Speak & Valeria Luiselli’s Faces in the Crowd
San Diego CityBeat
February 8, 2016
Christopher Sorrentino’s The Fugitives
Los Angeles Times
February 4, 2016
Elizabeth Marro’s Casualties
San Diego CityBeat
January 25 , 2016
Best Books 2015
San Diego CityBeat
December 29 , 2015
Svetlana Alexievich Voices from Chernobyl
San Diego CityBeat
December 29 , 2015
Ruth Ware’s In a Dark, Dark Wood
San Diego CityBeat
November 16 , 2015
Bucky Sinister’s Black Hole
San Diego CityBeat
October 26 , 2015
