“In Search of the Wild Cohiba” with James Wallenstein
The Believer, October 2009

“Beautiful Ruination: Hard Core May be the New Green for a Town at the End of the Line”
Orion, September/October 2009

“The Poetry of Power: Small Hydro Presents Environmentalists with a Serious Challenge”
Orion, May/June 2009

“The Crying Indian: How an Environmental Icon Helped Sell Cans--and Sell Out Environmentalism”
Orion, November-December 2008
Pushcart Prize, 2009

“Keyword: Evil”
Harper's, March 2008

“A Swamp Forest Grows in Brooklyn”
Orion, March-April 2008

“Selling Sex in Honeymoon Heaven”
The Believer, January 2008

“What's the Use of Pets?”
Orion, September/October, 2007
Best American Essays 2008 Notable essay

“Faux Falls”
Orion, November, 2006

“The Ecology of Empire”
The Believer, February, 2006

“Against Connoisseurship,”
Swink Online, March, 2005

“Why Look at Fish?”
The Believer, February, 2005

“The Age of Aquariums,”
Harper's, August, 2005

“The Perils of Writing Close to Home,”
Poets & Writers, September, 2005

“Diminished Things”
Raritan, Fall 2003
Pushcart Prize nomination

“A Paved Paradise with Trees: Visiting the Tree Museum”
Orion, May/June, 2010

“At the Limit: Landschaft, Landscape and the Land”
Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape (MassMOCA and MIT Press, May 2008)

“Why Look at Animals,” catalog essay for the exhibit
at Artspace, New Haven, CT, January, 2007

“Tramp”
Swink Online, February, 2006

“Firefly”
Passages North, Winter/Spring 2005

“Name of the Game”
The Iowa Review, Winter/Spring 2005

“Princess”
Carolina Quarterly, Winter, 2004

“Third Arm” and “Lucky”
The Gettysburg Review, Autumn, 2001

“Dumb”
Descant, Spring, 2001

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