Work
Novels
Meat Puppets - Apocalypse Confidential, May 2026
Excerpts
Meat Puppets excerpt - Beyond the Last Estate, July 2026
Meat Puppets excerpt - Apocalypse Confidential, May 2026
Meat Puppets excerpt - Expat Press, April 2026
Short Fiction
"Five of Us" - Post-Pop Lit, August 2026 (permalink)
"Emergency" - Emergency: A Zine, June 2026
"A Day in the Life of a Businessman" - Citywide Lunch, April 2026
"City Limits" - X-R-A-Y, April 2026
"Educated Circle Promised Revelations" - KEEP PLANNING, Feb 2026
"Empty Sets" - Burial Magazine, Dec 2025
"Passing Time" - The Republic of Letters, June 2025
"I Know" - Short Story, Jan 2025 (unpaywalled version)
"Collectively Conscious" - Berkeley Fiction Review, Nov 2024, print
"A Story in Which Something Happens" - HAD, Sept 2024
"Eleven Definitions" - West Branch, Feb 2024, print
"The Detriment of the Doubt" - Cleaver, Dec 2023
"Brief Rumination on the Unknown and the Unknowable" - The Harvard Advocate, Sept 2023
"Imposter Syndrome" - Puerto del Sol, Feb 2022
"Stalling" - The Rupture, Feb 2022
"In Lieu of Closure" - SmokeLong Quarterly, Dec 2021
Nonfiction/Essay/Critique
"On Permanence" - Apocalypse Confidential, forthcoming
"Don't Forget to Hit Your Clock" - Loser, August 2026, OUT OF PRINT (permalink)
"Infinite Detail: One Man's Attempt to Graphically Chronicle Infinite Jest" - Hobart, June 2026
"Taking the Villain's Part" - Cleveland Review of Books, May 2026
"Nothing Ever Happens: 'Mister Squishy' and the Year of the Sentence Diagram" - Los Angeles Review of Books, Nov 2025
"A Nonstatistical Analysis of the Futility of Statistical Analysis" - Potomac Review, March 2024
"The Belan Deck by Matt Bucher" - The Sunlight Press, Sept 2023
"Our tiny online community was born during the pandemic. We thrived off our mutual solitude." - The Boston Globe, July 2022
As Editor
Interview
Infinite Jest Book Club Part 6 ft. Dr. Hannah Smart - Limousine: A podcast for readers and writers
"Everyone Is a Projection in Some Sense": Christian McDonough emails with Meat Puppets author — & soon-to-be Dr. — Hannah Smart - Bruiser, June 2024
Chatting with the Meat Puppeteer: Ben Gross interviews Hannah Smart - X-R-A-Y, May 2026
Moral of the Story: Hannah Smart on Meat Puppets - Moral Minority Podcast, May 2026
David Foster Wallace & Mark Fisher: Irony, Sincerity, and Late Capitalism - Acid Horizon Podcast, April 2026
Bob Dylan's Rough & Rowdy Ways Tour (with Hannah Smart) - Southern Accents Podcast, April 2026
Content of the Form: Hannah Smart on David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest - Moral Minority Podcast, April 2026
A Brief Interview with Hannah Smart - Ryan Sartor, Jan 2026
Nota Bene: The Moral Passion of David Foster Wallace's The Pale King - Moral Minority Podcast, Jan 2026
Craft Chat with Cleaver - Cleaver Magazine, Jan 2024
Interview with SmokeLong Quarterly - SmokeLong Quarterly, Dec 2021
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