Other Writing
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“Portrait of the Author in the Age of Conglomeration” (essay).
Cleveland Review of Books (25 Sept. 2025): n.p.“Pub Blues” (short story).
Southern Indiana Review (spring 2025, vol. 32, no.1): pp. 46-60.“The Weeping Scimitar” (short story).
Running Wild Press Short Story Anthology, Volume 8: Los Angeles, Running Wild Press (2025): pp. 104-137“The Hospital” (flash fiction).
The Northwest Review (summer 2024): n.p.“Ghost Cartography” (novel excerpt).
The American Mag (17 Apr. 2024): n.p.“Zee Gee and the Blue Jean Baby Queen” (short story, reprint).
Ethel 11 (spring 2024): pp. 61-70.“Woman, Blue” (short story).
On the Seawall (7 Nov. 2023): n.p.“Contrary Star” (short story). Exacting Clam (winter 2023, no. 11): pp. 94-99.
“Still Life,” “To a Woman,” “Death Takes a Misstep” (poems).
Shot Glass Journal (September 2022, issue 38): n.p.“Insomnia” (flash fiction).
Litro magazine, USA (June 3, 2022): n.p.“Chele Kula” (short story).
13 by 11, anthology: London: Papillon du Pere Press (2021): pp. 3-18.“Enchantments” (short story).
Copper Nickel (spring 2020, no. 30): pp. 142-152.“That Is the Man” (flash fiction).
Flash Fiction Magazine (July 14, 2018): n.p.“The Smiling Aztec” (novel excerpt).
Skidrow Penthouse 20 (spring 2019): pp. 95-115.“Chele Kula” (short story).
December (fall/winter 2017, Vol. 28.2): pp. 91-102.“Old Oraibi” (novel excerpt).
Cold Mountain Review (fall 2015, vol. 44, no. 1): pp. 5-14.“Hamlet’s Ghost Sighted in Frontenac, KS” (short story, reprint).
Archaeopteryx (January 2016, Vol. 3): pp. 53-64.“Vacancy” (novel excerpt).
Skidrow Penthouse 19 (fall 2016): pp. 121-123.“First Mesa” (short story).
Quiddity (September 2015, vol. 8, no. 1): pp. 62-71.“Hamlet’s Ghost Sighted in Frontenac, KS” (short story).
Stories for Chip, anthology: Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium Press (2015): pp. 291-300.“Vanishing Points” (novel excerpt).
Skidrow Penthouse 17 (fall 2014): pp. 165-171.“Straightsville” (short story).
Tampa Review 49 (September 2014): pp. 73-78.“Overhead, Like Orion” (short story).
Archaeopteryx (2014, Vol. 2): pp. 85-100.“The Prize” (short story).
Georgetown Review (spring 2014, vol. 15, issue 1): pp. 155-168.“Monet in Mourning” (flash fiction).
Tin House (2 Aug. 2013): n.p.“Moon of Drunken Mists” (short story).
Wasafiri, UK (March 2013, vol. 28, no. 1, issue 73): pp. 47-52.“The Nameless Saint” (short story).
Camera Obscura (summer/fall 2011, Vol. 3): pp. 40-73.“Old Man Evil” (short story).
Southern Indiana Review (spring 2011, vol. 18, no. 1): pp. 7-32.“The Gypsy Charm” (short story)
Louisiana Literature (2011, vol. 28., no. 1): pp. 20-37.“The Moon Has Fallen into a Well” (short story in Turkish translation).
Istanbul’da Kan Var(There is Blood in Istanbul),
anthology: Istanbul: Sel Publishing House (2011): pp. 111-118.“The Moon Has Fallen into a Well” (short story).
Shenandoah (winter 2009, vol. 59, No. 3): pp. 5-11.“The Three Veils of Ibn Oraybi” (short story).
AGNI 64 (fall 2006): pp. 70-102.“Neslihan” (poem).
Atlanta Review (spring/summer 2006, vol. XII, no. 2): pp. 47.“Arif’s Refusal to Bargain” (short story).
The Massachusetts Review (spring 2006, vol. XLVI, no. 1): pp. 7-21.“Farley’s Tavern” (poem).
Chiron Review (winter 2025, issue 139)
“The Medusa Standing in the Doorway” (poem).
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“Monday School” (essay).
The Smart Set (July 2022): n.p.“No, No Duende Here” (essay).
Exacting Clam (summer 2022): n.p.“Theft from the Author” (essay).
The Smart Set. (June 2022): n.p.“Diving the Gulf” (creative nonfiction).
The Smart Set (April 2022): n.p.“No Bones to Venerate” (creative nonfiction).
Bosphorus Review (November 2021): n.p.“Literary Reconsideration: A.S. Byatt’s Possession” (essay).
The Arts Fuse (28 Mar. 2020): n.p.“A Tribute to Poet and Writer John Ash” (creative nonfiction).
The Arts Fuse (21 Jan. 2020): n.p.“Lucifer: How a Decent Deity Got a Bad Rap” (essay).
The Partially Examined Life (25. Feb. 2020): n.p.“Literary Remembrance: Homage to Guy Davenport—Brilliance Worth Savoring” (essay).
The Arts Fuse (18 May 2020): n.p.“Yogurt and Almonds on Akdamar Island” (creative nonfiction).
Edible Jersey (2 Jan. 2019): n.p.“The Cold War and Its Fallout” (creative nonfiction).
Longreads (15 Jun. 2018): n.p.“‘Purified Modernist’ William Gass—Wizard of the Word” (essay).
The Arts Fuse (January 6, 2018): n.p.“Collage and the Secret Adventures of Order” (essay).
New England Review (2014, vol. 35, no. 3): pp. 91-98.“A Tour of Ancient Lykia: A Letter Sent to Albert Goldbarth”
(creative nonfiction/letter).
Mayday (July 2014): n.p.“A Brief Reply to Gary Lutz’s ‘The Sentence Is a Lonely Place’” (essay).
The Arts Fuse (9 Mar. 2012): n.p.“Plato’s Gospel” (essay).
Logos Journal (August 2011): n.p.“Plotting Against Plot” (essay).
AGNI (August 2011): n.p.“Prose, Thinly Disguised as an IKEA Superstore …” (essay).
The Boston Review (April 2011) -
“Is the Author Hive-Mind or Queen Bee?” (review of Big Fiction by Dan Sinykin).
The Arts Fuse (28 Jun. 2024): n.p.“Rodney Kills at Night by Poe Ballantine” (review).
The Arts Fuse (5 Aug. 2023): n.p.“How Our Conversations Set the Boundaries of Our Thinking” (review of The Quiet Before by Gal Beckerman).
The Arts Fuse (6 Aug. 2022): n.p.“On Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren” edited by Bill Wood (review).
The Arts Fuse (23 Nov. 2021): n.p.“Madness Made Beautiful” (review of Blue Swan Black Swan by Stephanie Dickinson).
The Arts Fuse (16 Sep. 2021). n.p.Disquiet by Zulfu Livaneli (review).
The Arts Fuse (28 Jul. 2021): n.p.Any Song Will Do by Donald Levering (review).
The Arts Fuse (6 Nov. 2020): n.p.“The City as Mirror for Consciousness” (review of My Red Heaven by Lance Olsen). The Arts Fuse (19 Apr. 2020): n.p.
A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger by Joshua Sperling (review). The Arts Fuse (26 Dec. 2019): n.p.
And Go Like This by John Crowley (review).
The Arts Fuse (4 Sep. 4, 2020): n.p.Five Cities by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (review)
The Arts Fuse (27 Jun. 2019): n.p.The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem (review).
The Arts Fuse (14 May 2019): n.p.The Ruins of Ani by Krikor Balakian (review).
The Arts Fuse (19 Apr. 2019): n.p.Bible Nation by Candida R. Moss & Joel S. Baden (review)
The Arts Fuse (24 Apr. 2018): n.p.“John Berger’s Masterpiece, A Painter of Our Time” (review).
The Arts Fuse (11 Feb. 2017): n.p.Neptune Court and The Ghost of Grant Wood by Anton Yakovlev (double review). The Arts Fuse (7 Jan. 2016): n.p.
Shout It Out Loud by James Campion (review).
The Arts Fuse (22 Dec. 2015): n.p.Counternarratives by John Keene (review).
The Arts Fuse (5 Aug. 2015): n.p.
The Cartographer’s Ink by Okla Elliott (review). Rain Taxi (summer 2015, vol. 20, no. 2): p. 26.Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life by Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings
(review). The Arts Fuse (20 Aug. 2014): n.p.The Star of Istanbul by Robert Olen Butler (review).
The Arts Fuse (21 May 2014):n.p.Siege 13 by Tamas Dobozy (review).
Rain Taxi (fall 2013, vol. 18, no. 3): p. 12.So There! by Nicole Reid (review).
The Arts Fuse (28 Feb. 2012): n.p.Calendar of Regrets by Lance Olsen (review).
The Arts Fuse (17 Jan. 2011): n.p.Passes Through by Rob Stephenson (review).
Rain Taxi (winter 2010/2011, vol. 15. No. 4): p. 33.“An English Poet in Istanbul” (interview with John Ash).
Rain Taxi (fall 2007, vol. 12, no. 3): pp. 20-23.The Ecstasy of Capitulation by Daniel Borzutzky.
Rain Taxi (summer 2007): n.p.Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk (review).
The Arts Fuse (27 Jul. 2005):n.p.“Lyrical Overdrive” (review of Budget Travel Through Time and Space by Albert Goldbarth). The Arts Fuse (8 Oct. 2005):
“Three Novels in Translation” (omnibus review of Creature of a Day [2002] by Juan Tovar; House of Day, House of Night [2003] by Olga Tokarczuk, and The Garden of Departed Cats [2004] by Bilge Karasu). West Branch (fall/winter 2004, no. 55): 126-138.
Death in Troy (2002) and The Garden of Departed Cats (2004) by Bilge Karasu. Translation Review (2004 no. 68): pp. 36-38.
“Embellishment to the Third Power” (review of Flicker in the Porthole Glass by Ed Desautels).
American Book Review (July/August 2003): p. 29.“The History in Fiction” (interview with Paul West). Rain Taxi (spring 2002, vol. 7, no. 1): pp. 42-43.
A Larger Sense of Harvey by Dimtri Anastasopoulos (review). Rain Taxi (winter
2001/2002, vol. 6., no. 4): p. 32
“A Fabulous, Formless Darkness Illuminated” (profile of/interview with Samuel R. Delany).
New Millennium Writings (summer 2000, vol. 5, issue 1): pp. 130-141.Profile of/interview with Paul West. New Millennium Writings (summer 1999, vol. 4, issue 1): pp. 138-153.
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Wikipedia
(bibliography has not been updated to include most recent publication): n.p.“The Dance of Self-Reclamation.”
Yurcaba, Nicole. Review of Sun Eye Moon Eye. Heavy Feather Review, 16 Sep. 2024, n.p.“Vincent Czyz’s Sun Eye Moon Eye.”
Higgins, John Patrick. Exacting Clam, autumn 2024, no. 14, pp. 87-88.“Double Vision: A Review of Sun Eye Moon Eye by Vincent Czyz.” Compulsive Seinfelt, Mark. Reader, 10 September, n.p.
“Journey into the Self: On Vincent Czyz’s Sun Eye Moon Eye.”
Dobozy, Tamas. Vol. 1 Brooklyn, 10 May 2024, n.p.“Vincent Czyz’s Sun Eye Moon Eye—Cozy with the Quotidian and the Cosmological.”
Lippman, Gary. The Arts Fuse, 3 Apr. 2024, n.p.Review of Sun Eye Moon Eye.
Welsbacher, Anne. IndieReader, 8 Mar. 2024, n.p.Review of Sun Eye Moon Eye.
Smith, Eric. Los Angeles Book Review, March 2024, n.p.Review of The Secret Adventures of Order.
Holdefer, Charles. Full Stop, 9 Sep. 2022, n.p.Review of The Three Veils of Ibn Oraybi.
Kahrs, Jeff. Heavy Feather Review, 13 Oct. 2021, n.p.Review of The Christos Mosaic.
Nahhas, Othman. The Bosphorus Review, 2018, n.p.Review of Adrift in a Vanishing City (reprint).
Liederbach, Nate. Logos Journal, April 2017, n.p.“The Christos Mosaic—a Novel About the Christ-Myth Hypothesis.”
Review by Neil Godfrey. Vridar, 11 Nov. 2016, n.p.Murray, John M. Review of The Christos Mosaic.
Foreword Reviews, 29 Feb. 2016, n.p.Review of The Christos Mosaic.
Meredith, D.R. New York Journal of Books, 2016, n.p."Jersey City Author Weaves Byzantine Tale."
Politano, Teresa. Inside Jersey, 11 Aug. 2016, n.p.Review of The Christos Mosaic.
Kilgore, Joe. US Review of Books, 2016, n.p.Druckenmiller, Brian. Review of Adrift in a Vanishing City (reprint edition of collection). The Florida Review, summer 2016, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 197-199.
Dew, Spencer. Review of Adrift in a Vanishing City (reprint edition).
decomP magazinE, 2016, n.p.Campion, James. “Unravelling the Mystery of Two Millennia.”
Review of The Christos Mosaic. Aquarian Weekly, 15 Dec. 2015, n.p.White, C. Todd. “Harlots and Lovers, Knaves and Knights All Make Their Appearance in Adrift in a Vanishing City.” Review (reprint edition).
The Tangent Group, 8 Sep. 2015, n.p.Review of Adrift in a Vanishing City.
Badura, Matt. The Review of Contemporary Fiction, spring 2000, pp. 181-182.Review of Adrift in a Vanishing City.
Nichols, Capper. Minnesota Daily, 6 May 1999.“Adrift: Tone, Prose Shine.”
Burkman, Greg. The Seattle Times, February 1999.Review of Adrift in a Vanishing City.
Howe, Michelle. Newark Star-Ledger, 1999.“Exploring Alienation in ‘A Vanishing City’.”
Castronovo, Joe. North Jersey Herald & News, 17 Oct. 1998, p. C2.“A Prefatory Notice to Vincent Czyz’s Adrift in a Vanishing City.” Rain Taxi Delany, Samuel R. (winter 1998/1999, vol. 3, no. 4): pp. 10-11.
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“Realism That Sounds Like Magic: An Interview with Vincent Czyz.”
Online interview by Samuel R. Delany.
Big Other, 29 May 2024, n.p.“An Interview with Vincent Czyz.”
Online interview by Tyler Gore. Washington Independent Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2024, n.p.“Author Interview: Vincent Czyz—To Create a World.”
Online interview by Bill Marx. The Arts Fuse, 6 Sep. 2022, n.p.“Interview with Vincent Czyz.” Interview by Clara Burghelea.
Miletus International Literary Magazine, fall 2020, pp. 8-11.“A Two-Thousand-Year-Old Cold Case Thriller Explores the Myth of Christianity.” Interview, American Atheist, second quarter 2016, pp. 25-27.
Radio interview by Barry Seidman
Equal Time for Free Thought/WBAI. 9 Jul. 2016.Online interview by Dinh Galdi
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“In-Between States” (group reading and panel on hybrid literature as part of the Brooklyn Book Festival, where I read an excerpt from Sun Eye Moon Eye).
Commune NYC, Brooklyn, NY. 24 Sep. 2024.“They Dance” (excerpt from Sun Eye Moon Eye). Unnameable Books, Brooklyn, NY. 8 Sep. 2024.
“Moon Bones” (excerpt from Sun Eye Moon Eye).
Eonta Gallery, Jersey City, NJ. 12 Apr. 2024“Palluccaville” (creative nonfiction from The Secret Adventures of Order).
Eonta Gallery, Jersey City, NJ. 2 Dec. 2022.Adrift in a Vanishing City (excerpt).
Unnameable Books, Brooklyn, NY. 4 Aug. 2018.Adrift in a Vanishing City (excerpt).
KGB Bar, New York, NY. 1 Dec. 2017.The Christos Mosaic (excerpt) and lecture.
Lyndhurst Public Library, Lyndhurst, NJ. 21 Jul. 2016.The Christos Mosaic (excerpt).
The Well Read Bookstore, Hawthorne, NJ. 25 Feb. 2016.The Christos Mosaic (excerpt).
Barnes & Noble, Ewing, NJ. 11 Nov. 2015.“The Night Crawler” (from Adrift in a Vanishing City).
Bindlestiff Books, Philadelphia, PA. 11 Oct. 2015.“Slow Dive” (from Adrift in a Vanishing City).
Unnameable Books, Brooklyn, NY. 28 Sep. 2015.“Overhead, Like Orion” (from Adrift in a Vanishing City).
Writers Read NYC series at City Winery of New York, New York, NY. 20 Sep. 2015.“The Sun Eye and the Moon Eye” (novel excerpt).
Unnamable Books, Brooklyn, NY. 20 Aug. 2015.“Moon of Drunken Mists” (short story).
Port-o-Lounge, Jersey City, NJ. 12 Jul. 14.“Overhead, Like Orion” (from Adrift in a Vanishing City).
Word Bookstore, Jersey City, NJ. 15 Jan. 2014.“Zee Gee and the Blue Jean Baby Queen” (from Adrift in a Vanishing City).
Tachair Bookshoppe, Jersey City, NJ. 3 Mar. 2013.Adrift in a Vanishing City (excerpt).
Soda Bar (Soda Bar Reading Series), Brooklyn, NY. 20 Mar. 2011.“Zee Gee and the Blue Jean Baby Queen” (from Adrift in a Vanishing City).
Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. August 2009.Adrift in a Vanishing City (excerpt).
Culture Cup Café, Rutherford, NJ. 14 Jul. 1999.Adrift in a Vanishing City (excerpt).
Barnes & Noble, Clifton, NJ. 20 May 1999.“The Night Crawler” (from Adrift in a Vanishing City).
Auburn University, Auburn, AL. 13 Apr. 1999.“Zee Gee and the Blue Jean Baby Queen” (from Adrift in a Vanishing City).
SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. March 1999.Adrift in a Vanishing City (excerpt).
The Rutherford Library, Rutherford, NJ. 16 Dec. 1998.“Slow Dive” (from Adrift in a Vanishing City).
The Montclair Book Center, Montclair, NJ, 24 Oct. 1998.