"The Milkman and I"
- Text of Paine's short story which was the premier winner of The Boston Review's Short Story Contest.
- http://www.bostonreview.net/BR19.6/milkman.html

"Protest Lit"
- "These stories focus on the ways huge geopolitical forces shape small individual lives," writes author Stacey D'Erasmo about Paine's "Scar Vegas."
- http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/06/reviews/000206.06derast.html

'Scar Vegas': She Stole His Kidney and Other Bad Luck Tales
- review in The New York Times By Christopher Lehmann-Haupt.
- http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/01/09/daily/011300paine-book-review.html

War Crimes
- Paine's featured short story in Zoetrope magazine.
- http://www.all-story.com/issues.cgi?action=show_story&story_id=59

Salon Books |
- "In an amazing debut, a fired-up writer takes aim at dumb American swaggerers and corporate greed." Salon's Maria Russo reviews Paine's first collection.
- http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/02/23/paine/index.html

The Village Voice: VLS: Writers on the Verge
- Brief write-up on Paine with some background information.
- http://www.villagevoice.com/vls/161/writers.shtml