Lucky Peach. 2015 ASCAP Foundation Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award 2015 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize (Non-Fiction) valued at $150,000 2016 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, to complete The Prime Minister of Paradise 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship Bibliography Books Pulphead: Essays, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011. Essays and reporting GQ "Too Much Information", on David Foster Wallace, 2011. "The Last Wailer", on Bunny Wailer, 2011. "Back in the Day", on Michael Jackson, 2009. "The Final Comeback of Axl Rose", on Axl Rose, 2006. "Upon This Rock", on a visit to a Christian rock festival, 2004. "Good-Bye to All That", on a visit to the Gulf Coast, post-Hurricane Katrina, 2005. "He Shall Be Levi", on a visit to Alaska, to meet Levi Johnston, 2009. "American Grotesque". on the Tea Party movement, 2010. "Violence of the Lambs". on the coming war between animals and humans, 2011. "Peyton's Place". on living in the house used for the filming of One Tree Hill, 2011. The New Yorker "The Ill-Defined Plot," on the history of the essay, 2014. "David Foster Wallace's Perfect Game," 2014 "Mother Nut," a novella, 2019. Harper's Magazine "Horseman, Pass By: Glory, grief, and the race for the Triple Crown", 2003. "A Rawness of Seeing: Denis Johnson writes the big novel", 2007. "Unknown Bards: The blues becomes transparent about itself", included in Best Music Writing, 2009. New York Magazine "Art-Shaped Box", on Nirvana, 2004. "Dear Heather', on Leonard Cohen, 2004. "My Front Pages", on Bob Dylan, 2004. The New York Times Magazine "You Blow My Mind. Hey, Mickey!", on Disney World, 2011. "My Debt to Ireland" on Ireland's Future, 2012, included in The Best American Essays, 2013 "How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South From Itself" on William Faulkner, 2012. "Venus and Serena Against the World" on Venus Williams and Serena Williams, 2012. "Where is Cuba Going?", on Cuba's future, included in The Best American Travel Writing, 2013. "The Ballad of Geeshie and Elvie", about blues singers Geeshie Wiley and Elvie Thomas, 2014. "‘Shuffle Along’ and the Lost History of Black Performance in America,” 2016. “How Prince Got His Name,” 2016. The Paris Review “Guy Davenport, The Art of Fiction No. 174,” interview, 2002 "Mister Lytle", an essay, 2010. "Unnamed Caves", on American cave art, 2011. “The Princes: A Reconstruction,” 2012 Annette Gordon-Reed, The Art of Nonfiction No. 11, 2021 "Uhtceare" (Sleep Stories), 2021 The Oxford American “That Don’t Get Him Back Again,” 2010 “That