Here are some of the pieces I’ve written recently and not-quite-as-recently. They’re divided into fiction, profiles, first person and book reviews.
FICTION
The Last Best Place (Backpacker, 2010)
—written as Eddie Oglander
The Lost Boy of the Ozarks* (Backpacker, 2009)
—written as Neville Franks
*Listen to an audio recording: the sound effects are great!
Terror in the Trees (Backpacker 2005)
PROFILES
Chris Evert on Winning, Losing, Love and What Really Matters (Elle, 2011)
The Race of His Life (Runner’s World, 2010)
The King of Pain (Runner’s World, 2010)
The Impossible Redemption of Jonathan Boyer (Bicycling, 2009)
Dogged (Runner’s World, 2008)
The Longing (Runner’s World, 2009)
Twilight of The Mountain God (Runner’s World, 2009)
The Long Trail to Jail (Backpacker, 2007)
G-D in His Corner (New York Magazine, 2006)
A Moment of Silence (Runner’s World, 2006)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Scott Williamson (Backpacker, 2005)
“It’s Gonna Suck To Be You” (Outside, 2002)
FIRST PERSON
“I Love You, You Smell Nice.” (Elle, 2011)
Sorry, Mom (Men’s Health, 2011)
Voyage of the Damned (Runner’s World, 2011)
My F*&^ Family (Backpacker, 2010)
Just Friends? Let Me Read Between the Lines (The New York Times, 2004)
Foldy (Bicycling, 2009)
Cook and Tell Confessions of a Kitchen Romeo (The New York Times, 2005)
A Better Body in 64 Payments (The New York Times, 2006)
It’s Not About the Hole (Bicycling, 2007)
I Will Survive (Backpacker, 2008)
I’m Hiking with Stupid (Backpacker, 2008)
Heidi & Me: Nightmare in Switzerland (Bicycling, 2008)
Oy, Wilderness! (Backpacker, 2005)
BOOK REVIEWS
The Adderall Diaries (Las Vegas Weekly, 2009)
The Night of the Gun (Las Vegas Weekly, 2008)
Motherless Brooklyn (Esquire, 1999)