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
in old/new/offline, I recommend experiences of art & culture:
+ self-titled shoegaze albums