- 2006: _Truth in Advertising_ (novel)—finalist, Thurber Prize for American Humor
- 2009: _How to Survive a Suicide Pact_ (novel)—Amazon Kindle Best Book of the Month
Short stories:
- "It All Adds Up", _Tin House,_ No. 33 (August 2006)
- "Life After Death with Godless Pagans & a Christian Rock Band,” _McSweeney’s,_ # 29 (Sept. 2006)
- “How to Survive A Suicide Pact, _One Story,_ June, 2008
- "My Dead Girl" _One Story,_ May, 2010 (reprinted in Best American Short Stories 2011 and elsewhere; translated into multiple languages; optioned for film; cited by John Updike in introduction to last installment of _The New York Times_ "Proust Questionnaire")