Bookforum asked its contributors to name the best books they read in 2021. Justin Taylor praised The Ghost Variations. You can read his thoughts here.

Electric Literature’s curated Halloween reading list includes The Ghost Variations. You can read the list here.

I conversed with Connor Syrewicz of Barzakh Magazine about The Ghost Variations, inbetweenness, the vexations of sentence-making, seeking pleasure in reading and writing, and many other topics for a feature titled “Nothing Is Quite What We Imagine It to Be.” You can read it here.

Lia Lent, of Little Rock’s WordsWorth Books, recommended The Ghost Variations for Minnesota Public Radio’s “Ask a Bookseller” feature. You can listen to the short segment here.

The website Semiovox, dedicated to semiotic analysis of the kind that “reveals not just what things mean, but how,” recently republished a short essay I wrote about a significant object in my life: a Wendy’s saladmobile.

The Rolla, MO, band Begin at Zero have recorded a song inspired by my story “The Ceiling.” You can listen to or purchase the song through their Bandcamp page, here.

Ryan Smernoff writes about The Ghost Variations for the Los Angeles Review of Books.

The fiction writer, critic, and anthologist Lincoln Michel shares a few words about The Ghost Variations on his Substack newsletter, Counter Craft.

The jacket for The Ghost Variations, lovingly designed by Kelly Blair, was featured in Lithub’s “Best Book Covers of March” roundup.

Pantheon has added a permanent Ghost Roulette feature to their Instagram grid. Simply click on the image to set the 100 ghost icons from The Ghost Variations in motion, and then click again to answer that pressing question: “Which Ghost Are You?”

Philip Martin is a columnist and reviewer for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, my home state newspaper. I’ve been reading and admiring his work since I was seventeen. Here he writes about The Ghost Variations.

Rich Fisher at Public Radio Tulsa and I had a half-hour conversation about The Ghost Variations. You can listen to it here.

I was asked to contribute an essay to a forthcoming volume of appreciations of Marilynne Robinson, my teacher and eventual colleague at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Literary Hub published my contribution here.

Ailsa Chang, of NPR’s All Things Considered, graciously agreed to speak with me about The Ghost Variations. You can listen to (or read) our exchange here.

This is my virtual events calendar for The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories. I’ll be posting the individual entries, along with registration links, on my events page.

Pantheon is featuring The Ghost Variations on its Instagram page for the next month.

Karen Russell and I had a conversation about The Ghost Variations for the Porter House Review.

A long list by Emily Hughes of the 2021 horror (or horror-adjacent) books she’s excited to read, including The Ghost Variations.

The Oxford American has reposted my appreciation of Elton and Betty White, “Bouncing Back Like Basketballs,” from their 2008 Music Issue.

A link to a conversation about the creative process with Heather Rose of Radio Free Roanoke.