Novels

THE TWENTY-SEVENTH CITY (1988)

STRONG MOTION (1992)

THE CORRECTIONS (2001)

FREEDOM (2010)

PURITY (2015)

Short Stories

"Somewhere North of Wilmington" (1996)

"How He Came to Be Nowhere" (1996)

"Chez Lambert" (1996)

"At the Party for the Artists with No Last Name" (1999)

"When the new wing broke away from the old mansion" (2003)

Breakup Stories" (2004)

"Two's Company" (2005)

"Good Neighbors" (2009)

"Agreeable" (2010)

"The Republic of Bad Taste" (2015)

Nonfiction

HOW TO BE ALONE: Essays (2002)

THE DISCOMFORT ZONE: A Memoir (2006)

FARTHER AWAY: Essays (2012)