Featured 12.07.2016

We’re Living in the Joan Rivers Age of Comedy

I wrote about the life and impact of Joan Rivers for The New Republic.

Featured 08.25.2016

In Defense of Trash: Why Pleasure Should Never Be Guilty

I wrote about why I don’t believe in guilty pleasures for Literary Hub.

Featured 05.01.2008

Me on the parties and pathos of Elizabeth Hardwick in the The Believer.

Featured 04.01.2006

On Susan Sontag’s life, death, and obituaries, from The Believer.

05.29.2018

I had a lot of thoughts about The Bachelor, which I wrote about for Avidly.

04.26.2018

Here’s an essay I wrote for Crime Reads about why books about rape are labeled memoir instead of true crime.

04.19.2018

I made a list of my favorite books about addiction for Crime Reads.

04.10.2018

I did a big summer/fall roundup of mysteries for Library Journal.

03.28.2018

For JSTOR Daily, I wrote a critique of addiction memoirs featuring Leslie Jamison’s The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath.