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writing

fiction, essays, criticism, reportage​​

“The moon sliced through the burnt forest with its brittle, renegade trees.”      [“Ellis, Island,” a short story forthcoming in Notch magazine]

 

    +    “The serendipity of discovery ... is only truly possible outside of Spotify, which collapses the distance between exploration and curation.”      [an essay for Reboot

 

    +    “[Brooke] Shields’s public persona can’t be solved in the plane of its original conception.”      [Pretty Baby, reviewed]

 

    +    Gen Z attempts to forge “a new, nameless kind of communication that we have not been taught.”      [a reported feature for BuzzFeed News]

 
    +    “The dilution of the show’s main characters—from spiky, seething individuals to sympathetic tropes—undermines the story’s necessary amorality.”      [The Power, reviewed]

    +    “And tennis was, for you, its own religion.”      [fiction in the Roanoke Review]

    +    running makes me a better writer    +    watching Alphonso Cuarón’s Roma    +    hiking Vermont’s Long Trail    +    listening to Elliott Smith’s “LA”    +    film buffs prep for Barbenheimer    +    four decades of televangelist scams    +    fiction in the Leland Quarterly    +    Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret., reviewed   +   more

editing

​fact-checking, copyediting, interviewing

Joseph Horowitz compares Charles Ives to Gustav Mahler    +    Josephine Baker tours the Old World    +    an interview with Mary Robison    +    Elena Saavedra Buckley visits the Las Vegas Sphere    +    an excerpt from Rejection  by Tony Tulathimutte    +    an interview with Yu Hua    +    Judith Schalansky remembers ecological disaster at the Oder River    +    an interview with Jhumpa Lahiri    +    more

speaking

podcasts, radio

to Vox’s Constance Grady and CNN’s Audie Cornish about evolving attitudes around sex    +    to The New Yorker’s Carrie Battan and CBC’s Elamin Abdelmahmoud about John Mulaney’s Baby J   +   more

blogging
newsletters from the fixate

Songs from College  is a series of  music essays:

    +    “Vacation” by Florist

    +    Chairlift's “Crying in Public”

 

Why Did You Do This?  is a column of antagonistic  entertainment: criticism

    +    Our Great National Parks

    +    Lightyear 

 

iold/new/offline, I recommend experiences of  art & culture:

    +    sea glass museums

    +    self-titled shoegaze albums

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