Novels

Ugly Rumours (1975)

The Barracks Thief (1984) (novella) 

Old School (2003) 

Short Story Collections

In the Garden of the North American Martyrs (1981)

Back in the World (1985)

The Collected Short Stories 

The Night in Question (1997) 

Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories (2008) 

That Room (2008)

Edited Volumes

Matters of Life and Death: New American Stories (1983)

Best American Short Stories (1994)

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1994)

Non-fiction

This Boy's Life (1989)

In Pharaoh's Army (1994)