- *All the Blue-Eyed Children: Memoir in Disguise* (1994)
- *Getting Over George* (1996)
- *The Brooklyn Follies* (2000)
- *The Middleman and Other Stories* (2003)
- *Tricks of Memory: Stories* (2011)
- *Benjamin Franklin: A Biography* (2017)
Nonfiction
- *Leaving Las Vegas: A Memoir of Love and Loss* (1995)
- *A New Language for Music* (1997)
- *The Secret History of the Bowing Group: A Memoir of Life and Music in the Jazz World* (2010)