new writing

new writing: on fritz leiber's "a deskful of girls"

Jun 16 •

new writing: on northanger abbey

(at the paris review)

Jun 9 •

new writing: sayaka murata

Apr 27 •

some professional news

i'm writing a book about science fiction

Apr 1 •

new writing: c.l. moore's "shambleau"

Mar 19 •

new writing: tove jansson's sun city

Mar 3 •

new writing: christmas anachronism

Dec 7, 2024 •

new writing: rooneyisms (part ii)

Oct 4, 2024 •

new writing: rooneyisms (part i)

Sep 28, 2024 •

new writing: celebrity endorsements don't matter

at the new york times

Sep 8, 2024 •

new writing: the princess of 72nd street (elaine kraf, 1979)

at the washington post

Aug 9, 2024 •

new writing: …so much new writing

paris review, defector, new york times, washington post

Jun 3, 2024 •

from the archives: moonstruck

rip norman jewison

Jan 24, 2024 •

stuff i wrote (one's new!)

Dec 18, 2023 •

New writing: Medical imaging, how does it work.

read the piece that has five comments on nytimes dot com, all of which are actually kind of nice

Aug 2, 2023 •

New writing: Illness Fakers.

plus some liner notes as it were

Jul 12, 2023 •

New writing: Taylor Swift (again).

it's cool it's fine it's like that u and i book except instead of john updike it's taylor swift

Jun 6, 2023 •

New writing: Mirrors.

I'm on the Paris Review blog.

Apr 4, 2023 •

Actually published writing

I rose up from the dead, and so on, and so forth.

Mar 7, 2023 •

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