The Great Hipster Mystery: Defining a Canon

I am unduly proud of this.

The Dark and Dreamy Noir of The Great Gatsby

I wrote about my special relationship to Gatsby and its noir undertones at CrimeReads.

Full text finally available on the Believer website: I wrote about my former professor, Richard Poirer, for The Believer.

I used Ruth Franklin’s excellent biography of Shirley Jackson as an occasion to write about literary biography at Literary Hub.

I wrote about the new breed of highbrow spy novels at Pacific Standard.