Fiction
- Going to the Sun (winner of the Carl Sandburg Award)
- Ghost Waves
- Curtains
- Chin Music
- Out of the Blue
Non-fiction
- Physical: An American Checkup (2006)
- Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker (October 2009) serialized in Card Player magazine
Poetry
- Great America
- Antonio Salazar Is Dead
Journalism
He has also written for
The New York Times,
The Boston Globe,
Harper's Magazine, and
The New Yorker among others.
His
Esquire article on stem cell research was featured in
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2005 and was a finalist for the National Magazine Award.
He has been the poker columnist of the
New York Times and currently writes the history column for
Card Player. He has spoken about the game at Yale, Harvard, Google Inc., Goldman Sachs, and on numerous media outlets.
His work has also appeared in
The Best American Poetry,
Best American Magazine Writing,
Best American Sports Writing,
Best American Political Writing,
Best Erotic Writing in Modern Fiction,
The New Kings of Nonfiction,
Richter 858,
The Book of Irish American Poetry, and other anthologies. He has received the Carl Sandburg Prize, the Peter Lisagor Award for Sports Journalism, fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, and other awards.