SELECTED WRITING
SELECTED WRITING
2 Middle-Aged Couples, A Hot-Air Balloon Crash And Many Bad Decisions — The New York Times
Watching Home Alone With Macauley Culkin — Vulture
Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Family Dramas — The Nation
The Changing Aesthetics of Cannabis — The New York Times Magazine
The Sally Rooney Effect — Air Mail
Who’s Afraid of the Internet Novel? — Airmail
A Salty Young Critic Explains Internet Culture, Patiently — The New York Times
"Lives of the Wives" Books Won’t Save Us — Bustle
Washing Up — McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
The Queenmaker — Bustle (Winner of a 2024 LA Press Club Award)
Ten Year Affair — Joyland (Featured in Best American Short Stories 2022)
The Ghosts of Lorrie Moore — The Nation
Martin Amis Let His Readers in on the Joke — The New Republic
My Wild Weekend at the Philip Roth Festival — Esquire
On the Road With a Grandma Named Pincer — The New York Times
A Higher Plane: The Short Fiction of George Saunders — The Nation
Dolls Gone Wild — Romper
Excess and Earnestness at Joan Didion's Estate Sale — Vulture
What Joyce Carol Oates Knows About Fame — Bustle
Crazy for You — Bookforum
When it Comes to Giving Birth, What Can Money Buy You? — Romper
Young Women and Their "Unfinished Business" — The New York Times
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon—Jennifer Egan's Worldwide Webs — The Nation
Künstlermania — Gawker
David Berman, Slacker God — The Paris Review
Waltz — Ecotone
2 Middle-Aged Couples, A Hot-Air Balloon Crash And Many Bad Decisions — The New York Times
Watching Home Alone With Macauley Culkin — Vulture
Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Family Dramas — The Nation
The Changing Aesthetics of Cannabis — The New York Times Magazine
The Sally Rooney Effect — Air Mail
Who’s Afraid of the Internet Novel? — Airmail
A Salty Young Critic Explains Internet Culture, Patiently — The New York Times
"Lives of the Wives" Books Won’t Save Us — Bustle
Washing Up — McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
The Queenmaker — Bustle (Winner of a 2024 LA Press Club Award)
Ten Year Affair — Joyland (Featured in Best American Short Stories 2022)
The Ghosts of Lorrie Moore — The Nation
Martin Amis Let His Readers in on the Joke — The New Republic
My Wild Weekend at the Philip Roth Festival — Esquire
On the Road With a Grandma Named Pincer — The New York Times
A Higher Plane: The Short Fiction of George Saunders — The Nation
Dolls Gone Wild — Romper
Excess and Earnestness at Joan Didion's Estate Sale — Vulture
What Joyce Carol Oates Knows About Fame — Bustle
Crazy for You — Bookforum
When it Comes to Giving Birth, What Can Money Buy You? — Romper
Young Women and Their "Unfinished Business" — The New York Times
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon—Jennifer Egan's Worldwide Webs — The Nation
Künstlermania — Gawker
David Berman, Slacker God — The Paris Review
Waltz — Ecotone