Books
My People’s Waltz. W.W. Norton and Company, 1999. Paperback edition by HarperCollins Perennial, 2000.
Selected Publications
“Having at It.” The Oxford American Best of the South, 2012.
“Surviving the Uncles and Learning How to Write—Arkansas Style.” The Oxford American Education Issue, 2011.
“Hillbilly Fishing.” The Oxford American Best of the South, 2010.
“My Father’s Ark.” New Madrid, Winter 2007.
“Haw River Cosmology.” Zoetrope: All-Story 4:2, Summer 2000.
“What It Cost Travelers.” The Greensboro Review, February 1999.
“The Woods At The Back Of Our Houses.” Harpers, July 1998.
“Why I’m Talking.” The Atlantic, March 1996.
“Corporal Love.” Story, Spring 1996. Reprinted in New Stories from the South 1997: The Year's Best, Algonquin Books.
“Everything Quiet Like Church.” Story, Spring 1994. Reprinted in New Stories from the South 1995: The Year's Best, Algonquin Books.
“What Men Love For.” The Atlantic, April 1988. Reprinted in Best American Short Stories of 1989, Houghton Mifflin.