Publications & Film

FILM (I Think You’re Totally Wrong):

DOXA Documentary Film Festival – May, 2015

Massachusetts Independent Film Festival – August, 2015

Chagrin Documentary Film Festival – October, 2015
Atlanta Documentary Film Festival – November, 2015

JOURNALISM/OPINION:

Shooting Death of 18-Year-Old Raises Questions About Washington’s Use of Force Law – The Stranger, April 28, 2022

Fire and Fury – The Express Tribune, January 18, 2018

Ali A. Rizvi:  Leaving the Faith – The Sun Magazine, December, 2017
Milo – ET, March 2, 2017
Muslim Ban? – ET, January 31, 2017
Eric Trump vs. Mohammed Amer – ET, December 12, 2016
Trump’s Victory – The Express Tribune, November 18, 2016
The Professor and the Hijab – The Express Tribune, October 26, 2016
How Do Americans View Eidul Azha – The Express Tribune, September 15, 2016

What Would a Trump Presidency Mean? – The Express Tribune, July 22, 2016
War Is Beautiful – The Express Tribune, March 9, 2016.
Baby Asha – The Express Tribune, March 2, 2016
Oregon Standoff – The Express Tribune. January 11, 2016
Niqab or Equality, Not Both – Reason.com. December 12, 2015.
355 Shooting and San Bernardino – The Express Tribune. December 6, 2015

Syrian Refugees – The Express Tribune. November 23, 2015.
Why Do Muslims Make Excuses for Apostasy – The Express Tribune. September 25, 2015.

On Tahera Ahmed & the Diet Coke – The Express Tribune. June 7, 2015.
Does Charlie Hebdo deserve the Freedom of Expression Award? – The Express Tribune. May 2, 2015.
Netanyahu’s Victory – The Express Tribune. March 23, 2015.
Letter to the Muslim Action Forum – Patheos. March 14, 2015.
Should Eid be a public holiday in NYC? – The Express Tribune. March 11, 2015.
May peace win – The Express Tribune. Feb. 27, 2015.

Chapel Hill:  Should Muslim

Chapel Hill: Shoud Muslims in America worry? – The Express Tribune. Feb. 16, 2015.
#Ferguson:  Was it only about being black? – The Express Tribune. Dec. 19, 2014
Will Islam be judged if Aasia Bibi is executed? – The Express Tribune. Nov. 28, 2014

Interfaith gestures: Moral placebos or progress? – The Express Tribune. Nov. 19, 2014

 

LITERARY:

 

Nonfiction:  Sialkot – Seneca Review, Fall, 2017
Nonfiction:  “Debating Ayesha” – Superstition Review, December, 2015 (Pushcart nominee)

Fiction:  “Defiling Bathsheba” – Monarch Review. June, 2015

Nonfiction:  “Statistics” – Pleiades. Summer, 2015.

Nonfiction:  “Fornication” – Quarter After Eight. Spring, 2015

Fiction:  “Circumcision” – Whiskey Island Magazine, February, 2015.

Nonfiction- Poets & Writers. January, 2015.

Nonfiction: I Think You’re Totally Wrong – Knopf. January, 2015.
Nonfiction:  “Honor” – Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review. January, 2015.

Nonfiction:  “Pork” – Harpur Palate. September, 2014.

Nonfiction:  “Apostasy” – New Madrid. July, 2014.

“Contraception” – New Madrid. July, 2014.

Fiction: “The Crow of Suspicion” – The Monarch Review. January, 2013.

Give Money to the Arts? (w/Tim Jones-Yelvington) – The Rumpus, July, 2012.

Art: “The Glorious Right to Insult Kim Jong Il” – Reed Magazine. May, 2012.

Poetry: “Ai Weiwei Loves the Future” – Evergreen Review. February, 2012.

Fiction: “Saving Aisha’s Spiders” – Blue Lake Review. February, 2012.

Fiction: “Bukowsky Sleeps with the Most Beautiful Woman in Taiwan” – The Monarch Review. Fall, 2011.

Humor: “The Double Standard” – Fathermucker. Summer, 2011.

Nonfiction: “The Legend of Green Lake” – 322 Review. Summer, 2011.

Essay: Dear Zoetrope: Your Submission Guidelines Are Fucked Up – The Nervous Breakdown. July, 2011.

Essay: Tao Lin’s Richard Yates vs. the 2006 Dodge Caravan Owner’s Manual – June, 2011.

Poetry: “Double Fuck the Party Central Committee” – Mobius: The Journal of Social Change. June, 2011.

Nonfiction: “The Meaning of Tao Lin” – Owen Wister Review. Spring, 2011. 

Fiction: “Living with Aisha” – Rose & Thorn Journal. Spring, 2011.

Nonfiction: The Josh Lueke “Rape” – The Nervous Breakdown. April, 2011.

Nonfiction/Art: “Mao Zedong Is a Stupid Egg” – Sein und Werden. April, 2011.

Humor: “The Bigger Dance” – The Nervous Breakdown. March 25, 2011.

Fiction: “Defiling Bathsheba” – LITnIMAGE. January, 2011.

Essay: “Yin Dao” – Dark Sky Magazine. January, 2011.

Essay: “Seven and S-21“ – Prick of the Spindle. December, 2010.

Fiction: “Miss Ang Has a Very Comfortable Life” – Post Road#19. Fall, 2010.

Poem/Humor: “Cruciferous“ – Umbrella: A Journal. August, 2010.

Humor: “The Golden Rule” – Errant Parent. August, 2010. 

Fiction: The Sexual Orientation Selective Abortion Solution – Ampersand Review, Spring, 2010. 

Poem/Art: “Poem in the Form of Che” – Rio Grande Review. Spring, 2010.

Art: Jackson Pollock Archive: Lost Poem #291/Narcissism 1950 – Zyzzyva. Spring, 2010.

Poem: “Waiting for Pointot” – Conceit Magazine. October, 2009.

Poem: “Che No Fue Tan Grande” – SNReview. September, 2009.

Fiction: “When I Am Dictator” – descant. September 2009.

Novella: She Will Never Be Saved – Semi-Finalist, Faulkner, 2009.

Poem: “Cào: An Etymology“- Word Riot. July, 2009.

Fiction: “Leaving Aisha” – Monkeybicycle. July, 2009.
Fiction: “Leaving Aisha” – Pank’s Friday Five. July, 2009.

Nonfiction: Eighteen” – Drunken Boat. July 2009.

Humor: “Notes of a Sexist Stay-at-home Father” –  Errant Parent. June, 2009.

Poem: “If Jackson Pollock Wrote Poetry” – Yankee Pot Roast. March, 2009.

Poema:  “Si Jackson Pollock escribió poesía” – Yankee Pot Roast. Marzo, 2009.

Fiction: “Kigezi Fire” – Sloth Jockey. March, 2009.

Poem: “Love: An Etymology” – decomP. March, 2009.

Poem: “Yīn Dào: An Etymology” – The Pedestal Magazine. February, 2009.

Poem: “at the orphanage” – elimae. December, 2008.

Poem: “there is A cemeTery” – flashquake. December, 2008.

Essay: “18, Seven, and S-21” – Honorable Mention, Faulkner 2008.

Essay – “Yin Dao”    Finalist

Short Story – “Keep Our Country AIDS Free”  Finalist

Essay – “Initials”   Semi-Finalist

Novel The Disappearances of Harrison  Short-listed Finalist, Faulkner 2007.

Essay – “Eighteen Paragraphs: An Essay of Death and Imagination” Finalist

Short Story “When I am Dictator”  First Place, National Writer’s Association, 2002.

Teacher’s Guide: The World is a Class – Good Cheer Publishing, 2002.

Novella: This Seething Ocean, That Damned Eagle – Reflected Images Publishers, 1993.

Novel This Seething Ocean, That Damned Eagle   Finalist, PNWA, 1991.

Dozens of Letters, Articles, & a Column – The Daily of the University of Washington

 

LITERARY CRITICISM/INTERVIEWS:

 

Interview:  Ali A. Rizvi – The Sun Magazine, December 2017
Interview:  Patrick Madden – The Rumpus, December, 2016
Interview:  Elissa Washuta – Superstition Review, Spring, 2016.
Review:  David Shields’ War Is Beautiful – The Express Tribune, March 9, 2016.
Interview:  Jervey Tervalon – The Los Angeles Review of Books. June 2014.

Interview:  Poe Ballantine – The Sun Magazine. February, 2014.

Interview: Lidia Yuknavitch – Southeast Review. February, 2012.

Back Story: Living with Aisha – Rose and Thorn Journal. Summer, 2011.

  Interview: Eula Biss – Hayden’s Ferry Review. Spring, 2011. 

Another Unique Review: Tao Lin – Meridian. Spring, 2011.

Review: Harold Jaffe’s Anti-Twitter – Prime Number Magazine. Spring, 2011.

Interview: Peter Mountford A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism – The Millions. Spring, 2011.

Article: The Josh Lueke “Rape,” the Moral Placebo, and the Sad Seattle Sports Scene – The Nervous Breakdown. April, 2011.

Review: Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water – Bookslut. April, 2011.

Review: A Dagger in Cyberspace – Fourth Genre. Spring, 2011.

Review: Tao Lin’s Richard Yates – Chiron Review. March, 2011.

Another Interview: David Shields – HTML Giant. March, 2011.

Interview: David Shields – The Rumpus. February 23, 2011

Unique Review: Reality Hunger – The Los Angeles Review. February, 2011.

The Two Minute Interview: David Shields – The Nervous Breakdown. February  5, 2011.

Review: Siegfried Lenz’s Stella – The Quarterly Conversation. February 1, 2011.

Interview: Frank Meeink – The Nervous Breakdown. January, 2011.

Interview: Bandied About from Both Sides – Gulf Coast. Winter, 2010.

Review: Frederick Reuss’s A Geography of Secrets – The Collagist. November, 2010.

Unique Review I: Tao Lin’s Richard Yates – dooneyscafe.com. October, 2010.

Unique Review III: Reality Hunger – The Baltimore Review. September, 2010. 

Review: Avner Mandelman’s The Debba – dooneyscafe.com. September, 2010. 

Review: Little Green – The Rumpus. June, 2010. 

Interview: Ander Monson – The Quarterly Conversation. May, 2010.

Review: American History X-treme – The Rumpus. March, 2010.

Interview: David Shields I – The Rumpus February, 2010.

Interview: David Shields II  – The Quarterly Conversation February, 2010.

Unique Review II: Reality Hunger – dooneyscafe.com. January, 2010.

Unique Review I: Reality Hunger – The Texas Review. Fall, 2009.

Letter: Letter – Calliope. Spring, 2009.

 

ESL:
 

Teacher’s Guide – The World Is a Class – Good Cheer Publishing, 2002

Teaching English Overseas: Goodbye Backpacker – ESL Focus March 17, 2010

Scams to Avoid – May 9, 2010

Finding the Right Job – June 9, 2010

Teaching English in Thailand – August 12, 2010

The Imperfect Situation – October 31, 2010

Teaching English in Saudi Arabia – November 12, 2010

Teaching English in Finland  –  December 28, 2010

Teaching English in Hong Kong – February 15, 2011 

Teaching English in Egypt – April 8, 2011

ESL Hot Spots – October 4, 2011

 

CHINESE:

 

 Chinoku – Sudoku with Chinese characters. August, 2010.