Aaron Gilbreath has written essays, some about jazz, for the New York Times, Tin House, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, AGNI, Threepenny Review, Black Warrior Review, Brick, and Hotel Amerika; and articles for Oxford American, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Yeti. Future Tense Publishing put out his chapbook, A Secondary Landscape and Thought Catalog republished his essay “The Stoned Age” as an e-book.