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2021.08.18: This governor is positive
2020.08.13: You can’t spell “preventable” without a bee
2020.04.15: Who's to blame?
2020.04.08: My story “Last” will close out Season 2 of the DUST podcast
2019.10.15: My body math index
2019.10.02: Hear my new short story tonight at Liars' League NYC!
2019.09.30: Hear me read tonight at Write This Down in Brooklyn!
2019.09.26: Catch me in New York City on September 30 and October 2
2019.09.03: Tour an alternate 21st century through six near-future fictions
2019.07.04: A Coney Island poem for the 4th of July
2019.06.28: Cast a warm eye on "Cast a Cold Eye"
2019.05.13: Reading at Lyrics, Lit & Liquor this Wednesday evening
2019.03.25: Calamity
2018.12.31: A limerick for Larry
2018.12.11: Ella's 2019 memorial calendar is available now
2018.12.07: I'll be reading at the Alternative on New Year's Day!
2018.10.23: And I love her
2018.08.21: To Ella
2017.11.24: Get your 2018 Ella calendars now!
2017.08.18: Read my new short story, "Last," in XPRIZE's online Seat14C anthology
2017.05.02: New science fiction ebook! "Our Dependence on Foreign Keys"
2017.04.27: New(ish) missionary story: "After the Earthquake a Fire"
2017.04.10: Spoon: a baptism by immersion
2017.02.28: This 30-year-old article can't tell you what it's like to be a missionary
2017.02.28: This article from 30 years ago today spoils everything about my memoir
2017.02.27: What was costly for me, you can read for a pittance
2017.02.27: This story cost me big, but you can get it for cheap
2017.02.26: A foot soldier in God's army? Call me Private Idaho.
2017.02.25: Free shipping on signed editions of my memoir, 30 years after my trial
2017.02.25: Signed editions of my memoir as low as $11.95, with free shipping!
2017.02.24: A book giveaway on the 30th anniversary of my bail hearing
2017.02.18: Saturday morning in Astoria, Queens
2016.12.19: I've been writing science fiction for a very long time. Why did this have to be my most accurate prediction?
2016.12.06: Come out to a very special 100th episode of Tuesday Funk tonight in Chicago!
2016.10.06: Come see me in Taboo Tales NYC on Monday, October 10
2016.07.01: Uh-oh! Oreo!
2016.05.23: Accidental Terrorist meets Noted Expert Michael Ian Black
2016.05.04: Why I relate so much to Tyler Glenn's “Trash” video
2016.04.07: LISTEN NOW: My interview on Montreal's CJAD 800 AM
2016.03.07: What we mean when we say “anti-Mormon”
2016.02.01: Finalist for the 2015 Association for Mormon Letters Awards
2016.02.01: LISTEN NOW: My interview with the Friendly Atheist Podcast
2016.01.11: Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do
2015.12.01: LISTEN NOW: My interview on The Stuph File Program
2015.11.25: Ella un-a-cyst-ed
2015.11.13: My interview on WIRED.com's "Geek's Guide to the Galaxy" podcast
2015.11.10: I'm celebrating today's memoir release by resigning from the Mormon church
2015.11.10: 17 years in the making, THE ACCIDENTAL TERRORIST is available today
2015.11.03: The Book of Mormon: Joseph Smith's first novel
2015.10.02: The Mormon Bishop Challenge: Marry a same-sex couple
2015.08.25: Books and reviewers and blurbs, oh my!
2015.08.19: Mormon underwear is about to get its closeup
2015.08.06: Joseph Smith's "capital" idea
2015.06.19: Giving text an inner shadow with ImageMagick and Perl
2015.06.18: My prescient and fiery memoir cover shoot
2015.06.15: Please help me "Close the Book" on my memoir project!
2015.06.08: Springtime in Manhattan
2015.04.28: The Falcon and the Snowman and me
2015.02.05: Send your missionary a margarita!
2015.01.30: Our memories remind us, maybe mine is not so bad
2014.11.05: Lament
2014.10.13: What David Mitchell is up to in “The Bone Clocks”
2014.08.25: Taxonomy
2014.08.14: Grand Motherfucker (an epic sci-fi poem)
2014.06.26: 800 miles behind us, one year ago tonight
2014.05.16: Share the wealth
2013.12.04: The last time
2013.11.06: Fiction wants to be free
2013.11.05: Just resting
2013.09.24: 4 across
2013.09.04: My first R-rated movie
2013.08.29: Memory Lane
2013.04.12: SXSW Film recap
2013.04.11: Speculative fiction: the superset of all possible literature
2013.04.09: The trade-off
2013.04.08: Readings on two consecutive nights
2013.04.08: Signs of spring
2013.02.13: Supercalifornication; or, how a hooker came between me and Oingo Boingo
2013.02.11: The NRA favors civilian shootings ... and massive profits
2013.01.31: We shout at the chatroom!
2013.01.25: On "The Labyrinth" podcast with Cesar Torres
2013.01.04: Le mot juiced
2012.11.07: Tasting notes
2012.10.19: What scares me most about Mitt Romney
2012.10.07: For Ella, on her ninth birthday
2012.08.28: The fourth largest church in America?
2012.08.06: “Let's see where our Curiosity takes us”
2012.04.11: Biking on Bryn Mawr
2012.03.19: In the marvelous mind of Gene Wolfe
2012.03.07: Lost things
2012.02.28: RIP Mark Bourne (1961-2012)
2012.01.24: The Book of Mormon: The Musical: The Review
2011.10.26: Boxed in
2011.10.26: My 2012 World Series prediction
2011.10.20: On the other side of the doorbell
2011.10.04: A higher attraction
2011.09.18: Robert A. Black Golf Course, Warren Park, Chicago
2011.09.12: Raaarrrr
2011.09.09: You are here
2011.07.29: Butt
2011.05.03: The stumbling block
2011.02.01: Tuesday Funk: The Blizzard Edition
2010.12.31: Under their skirts
2010.11.14: Infidel dog
2010.11.12: Smoke
2010.09.11: Almost fall
2010.09.11: Immortality
2010.09.08: Hacking reality
2010.09.04: Dogwalker's algorithm
2010.03.18: Beware of dog
2010.03.05: Deception
2009.12.15: New short story online
2009.10.05: Instinct
2009.06.15: Little Brother
2009.04.08: Quorum of the Twelve Apostates
2008.12.01: My Name Is Bruce
2008.10.06: Subversion
2008.10.05: Version control
2008.06.14: Remembering Algis Budrys
2008.06.12: Tapped human side
2008.06.09: R.I.P. Algis J. Budrys, 1931-2008
2008.03.17: I don't believe it: a rambling reminiscence from my father's funeral
2008.02.09: Scavengers
2007.11.08: Haiku
2007.10.26: Slipstream
2007.08.24: Introducing my chapbook!
2007.08.08: Full chapbook cover
2007.08.06: Cut and pasted without hands
2007.08.04: Cast in cold type
2007.07.27: Cashback
2007.05.30: King Kong
2007.04.29: Ella and the invisible hounds of hell
2007.04.06: Casting a cold eye upon the waters
2007.03.29: The best morning of my professional career so far
2007.03.23: First Snow
2007.03.05: Winter haiku
2007.02.08: Ella and the yeti of frantic doghousing
2007.01.30: Casting a not-so-cold eye
2006.11.01: Requiem
2006.10.10: Evil Dead: The Musical
2006.09.22: Renaissance
2006.08.30: Ella and the sphere of ultimate evil
2006.08.04: They can have my crayons when they pry them from my cold, dead hand
2006.07.25: Ella and the garden of Zen wrestling
2006.07.23: Ella and the terrible hose monster
2006.04.12: The 6.585 x 1021 ton elephant in the room
2006.04.12: If this had been an actual emergency...
2006.04.04: Fahrenheit 451
2006.03.15: Kindly inclined reviews
2006.02.21: C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
2006.02.16: Headspace
2006.02.13: Heddatron
2006.01.27: Frey in hell
2005.12.22: South by southeast
2005.08.19: Valiant
2005.08.03: I, Ender, having been born of goodly parents...
2005.06.10: Howl’s Moving Castle
2004.10.18: The Last Starfighter: The Musical
2004.08.13: A tribute to the Class of ’84
2003.12.09: Tarnished Iridium, or Strutting Peacock, or Elvis—Lost Fellow
2000.02.08: Getting medieval on my ear
1998.03.20: Observing Brooklynites observing John Turturro
1998.03.18: Observing John Turturro
1998.01.30: Breaking the ambulance in
1998.01.27: Occasionally, um, terrifically satisfying