Novels
Desire Provoked 1986
What Falls Away 1996
The Boy Orator 1999
Axeman's Jazz 2003

Story collections
The Woman in the Oil Field 1996
It Takes a Worried Man 2002
Late in the Standoff 2005
One Day the Wind Changed 2010
Empire of the Dead 2014

Nonfiction
Five Shades of Shadow: Essays 2003
Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme 2010
Just one Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller 2011
The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion 2015