writing
fiction, essays, criticism, reportage
“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]
+ “Outrage and sarcasm are the most virulent sentiments; bluntness and brevity make them easier to spread.” [on Mindy Kaling]
+ “There are, as ever, major oversights in the show’s smug pseudofeminism.” [The Sex Lives of College Girls season 2, reviewed]
+ 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
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
editing
fact-checking, copyediting, interviewing
an interview with Mary Robison + Elena Saavedra Buckley visits the Las Vegas Sphere + Eliot Weinberger reads and writes about bees + an excerpt from Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte + an interview with Yu Hua + Judith Schalansky remembers ecological disaster at the Oder River + Sean Thor Conroe walks across America + an interview with Jhumpa Lahiri + 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