My book reviews and criticism have appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper, Kirkus Reviews, The Quarterly Conversation, the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper, Barnes & Noble Review, WETA’s Book Studio, PopMatters, Shelf Awareness, AudioFile Magazine, Booklist, and other places. I’ve also interviewed authors for this site, though not recently.

If you’re a publisher, or you work at a company that publishes, you can contact me via the link on this site’s home page regarding catalogs, review copies, advanced reader copies, and related materials.  

I tend to lean toward “literary fiction” and “non-fiction” most of the time, but I appreciate being surprised. I’m also interested in reviewing psychology, counseling, and therapy books.

A few of my reviews:

• How to Succeed in College (While Really Trying): A Professor’s Inside Advice by Jon B. Gould (reviewed for Shelf Awareness)
• TALKING BACK TO FACEBOOK: A Common Sense Guide to Raising Kids in the Digital Age by James P. Steyer (reviewed for Kirkus Reviews)
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain (reviewed at the Cleveland Plain Dealer)
• Cabin: Two Brothers, a Dream, and Five Acres in Maine by Lou Ureneck (reviewed at the Star Tribune)
• The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits by Kent Greenfield (reviewed at Shelf Awareness)
• Damascus by Joshua Mohr (reviewed at Shelf Awareness)
• My Korean Deli by Ben Ryder Howe (reviewed at Barnes & Noble Review)
• Play Their Hearts Out by George Dohrmann (reviewed at the Star Tribune)
• The Case for Books by Robert Darnton (reviewed at the Star Tribune)
• A Country Called Amreeka by Alia Malek (reviewed at the Star Tribune)
• Ticknor by Sheila Heti (reviewed at Small Spiral Notebook) (site defunct)
• The Exquisite by Laird Hunt (reviewed at PopMatters)
• Of Song and Water by Joseph Coulson (reviewed at The Quarterly Conversation)
• Yann Andrea Steiner by Marguerite Duras (reviewed at PopMatters)
• The Dead Fish Museum by Charles D’Ambrosio (reviewed at Condalmo)
• The Junior Officers’ Reading Club by Patrick Hennessey (reviewed at the Star Tribune)
• The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson (reviewed at The Elegant Variation)
• Who I Was Supposed To Be by Susan Perabo (reviewed at Small Spiral Notebook) (site defunct)
• Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami (reviewed at The Quarterly Conversation)
• Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago (reviewed at PopMatters)
• Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet (reviewed at The Quarterly Conversation)
• A Country Called Amreeka by Alia Malek (reviewed at the Star Tribune)

I am a member of the National Book Critics Circle.