Writing
Essays, book reviews, interviews, and the like.
Reviews & Profiles
On debut novels by Hanna Johansson, Julia Malye, Scott Alexander Howard, and Scott Guild, The New York Times Book Review
On the six novels in the 2023 Booker Prize shortlist, The Sewanee Review
The Book of Ayn by Lexi Freiman, The Los Angeles Times
On the film adaptation of Wonder Boys, Literary Hub
On Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s film Drive My Car, Literary Hub
How Rob Doyle Wrote the Great Modern Drug Novel with Threshold, InsideHook
Spotlight on Alex Sewell, Cultured
Paul Tremblay’s The Cabin at the End of the World & W. F. Hermans’s An Untouched House, Longreads
We Can Save Us All by Adam Nemett, Bookforum
Frail Sister by Karen Green, The Believer Logger
Samuel Jablon’s show Unstung, The Brooklyn Rail
Humor
How to Eat a Sandwich, The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts
My Murder Mystery, The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts
A Few Proposed Trade-Offs, The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts
Our Big Upstate Housewarming!, The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts
Some Notes on This Year’s Fireworks Display, McSweeney’s
Essays & Miscellany
This Is Happiness, Dirt
100 Tips That May (or May Not) Improve Your Next Novel, Lit Hub
How I Found Solace in Nabokov’s Speak, Memory During the Pandemic, The Guardian
“The Audition,” for the Archie Rand exhibition Sweet Sixteen, TOTAH Gallery
“Constellation,” for the Kenny Scharf monograph blue blood, TOTAH Gallery
Interviews
Nora Lange on Us Fools, BOMB
Martin Amis on Inside Story, Esquire
Jonathan Lethem on Motherless Brooklyn and film, InsideHook
Téa Obreht on Inland, Longreads
Jamian Juliano-Villani on her show Let’s Kill Nicole, Frieze
Mira Jacob on Good Talk, The Rumpus
Mark Doten on Trump Sky Alpha, Los Angeles Review of Books
Sam Lipsyte on Hark, Longreads
John Wray on Godsend, The Millions
Joseph O’Neill on Good Trouble, Guernica
Ling Ma on Severance, Longreads
Chelsea Hodson on Tonight I’m Someone Else, Longreads
Teddy Wayne on Loner, Electric Literature