Awards
- 2012 National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism, for "The Aquarium"
- 2011 PEN/W.G. Sebald Award
- 2009 National Magazine Award for Fiction, for The New Yorker
- 2009 St. Francis College Literary Prize
- 2008 National Book Award, finalist, for The Lazarus Project
- 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award, finalist, for The Lazarus Project
- 2004 MacArthur Fellows Program from the MacArthur Foundation
- 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award, finalist, for Nowhere Man
- 2001 John C. Zacharis First Book Award, for Ploughshares
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