Essays in 3 Quarks Daily (See all pieces)
“Finnegans Wake & Dreaming Of The ‘Everything Novel” 3 Quarks Daily, February 2019
“America’s Great Sadness & The End For Robert Lowell,” 3 Quarks Daily, November 2018
Essays in Other Publications
“In Search of the Writer-Diplomat Tradition,’ Robertfay.com, October 2020
“Finding Wisdom in the Letters of Aging Writers,” The Atlantic, December 2016
“The Writer is Not Here: On Nihilism and the Writing Life,” The Millions, July 2016
“T.S. Eliot: Employee of the Month,” Full Stop, January 2013
“In the Footsteps of David Foster Wallace,” Full Stop, December 2012
“The Dreams of a Shrinking Nation,” The Rumpus, March 2012
“Where Have All The Catholic Writers Gone?” The Millions, November 2011
“Paris, Wikipedia and My Middle Age Crisis,” The Millions, August 2011
Book Reviews
“Two Decades of Hip,” Los Angeles Review of Books, March 2016
“Printmaking: An Art Medium for the People,” Los Angeles Review of Books, March 2015
In the Universe of Wonders and Astonishments,” Full Stop, February 2013
“The Terrible Affliction of Beauty,” Full Stop, June 2012
Fiction
“Churchill, His Fat Cigar & The French Navy,” Chicago Quarterly Review, Vol. 25, 2017
“If it is Beautiful, It is Passing,” The Furious Gazelle, January 2017
“The Phenomenon,” The Courtship of Winds, Winter 20
Nonfiction
“Fin de Siècle,” The MacGuffin, Spring 2015
“The Consecration,” Booth, February 2013