He is the author of Thoreau and the Sociological Imagination: The Wilds of Society, editor of The Art of Social Critique: Painting Mirrors of Social Life, and coauthor, with Sara Green, of Seriously Funny: Disability and the Paradoxical Power of Humor. His most recent book is The Bohemian South: Creating Countercultures, from Poe to Punk, coedited with Lindsey A. Freeman.