Journalism
Arts & culture
“Playing It Cool: Miles Davis at 100,” Smithsonian
“An Elegy for Father Reginald Foster,“ Smithsonian
“Oscar Wilde’s Day in Poets’ Corner,” New York Times International
“The Wrath of the Gods: Surviving Covid with Petronius, Fitzgerald, and Eliot,” the Los Angeles Review of Books
“John le Carré Defined the Modern Spy Novel,“ Smithsonian
“‘What Happened to Yesterday?’ Sex, Drugs, and Baseball in Dock Ellis’s Surreal World,” Playboy
“The Happiness Blues: An elegy for B.B. King,” the Oxford American Quarterly
“The Grand Tour, 2.0,” Aeon Magazine
“Mourning Pierre Capretz,” The Paris Review Daily
“How Colleges Misspend Your Tuition Money,” Pacific Standard
“The Selected Tweets of James Agee,” the Los Angeles Review of Books
Interviews/Profiles
“Kicking Methadone With Johnny Winter,” Pacific Standard magazine
“SXSW Q. and A. | Blondie on Blondie,” NYT / T Magazine
“SXSW Q. and A. | British Actress Imogen Poots on Starring Opposite (and Dressing Like) André 3000,” NYT / T Magazine
“SXSW Q. and A. | Tilda Swinton,” NYT / T Magazine
News, Politics, Climate
“The Couples Rethinking Kids Because of Climate Change,” BBC
“‘You Have Decided to Jump Into the Fire’: COP22 Reels After U.S. Election,” Pacific Standard
“Historical Amnesia,” the New Republic
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stories for Smithsonian magazine, print and web
essays for the Los Angeles Review of Books
interviews & profiles for NYT / T Magazine
culture & politics work for Slate