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The Off Beat, personal blog, 2025-present
Zona Motel, contributor, 2025-present
“Uncanny Gangsters”, essay @ Optic Nerve Magazine, 2025
“The Communist Manifesto”, discussion @ Bard Seminar Sequence Podcast
“The Rise, Fall, and Contradictions of Alt Lit”, essay @ Zona Motel, 2025
“Reactionary Fantasy to Reformist Copaganda: the sequels to Dirty Harry and Tropa De Elite”, essay @ Optic Nerve Magazine, 2025
"The Secret City: Aaron Lange on the 1970s Cleveland Punk Scene", interview @ Cleveland Review of Books, 2025
"Schadenfreude", story @ Hobart, 2024
"The 2020 Wildcat Teachers Sick-Out That Shut Down NYC Schools", article @ Jacobin, 2024
"The United Federations of Teachers Isn't Fighting Back", essay @ Jacobin, 2023
"UFT Contract Negotiations Could Be Contentious", essay @ New Politics, 2022
"A Referendum on UFT Leadership the Past Two Years", essay @ New Politics, 2022
"A Year After Teachers Closed Them, NYC Schools Are Still Unsafe", article @ Labor Notes, 2021
"Why De Blasio needs to focus on remote learning", editorial @ The Indypendent, 2020
“Who are we willing to sacrifice?” interviewed @ The Guardian, 2020
“Did America Set Public Schools Up To Fail”, interviewed @ New York Magazine, 2020
“Everyone Was Fine”: Lives of Languor in Andrew Duncan Worthington’s Newest Collection”, reviewed @ Maudlin House, 2018
“Review of A Very Small Forest Fire”, reviewed @ Be About It Press, 2018
"In Front of a TV", story @ Barzakh (SUNY Albany), 2017
“Staying Syncretic: a conversation with Kool A.D.”, interview @ The Rumpus, 2017
"The Golf Course", story @ Peach Mag, 2017
"A Very Small Forest Fire", story @ Hobart, 2016
Five Questions Club, interviews, 2016-21
The Fanzine, interviews, 2014-16
“Ordinary People and Ordinary Stories”, interviewed @ Philadelphia Review of Books, 2014
“Breaking down ‘Walls’”, profiled @ Canton Repository, 2014
“3 Alternatives to the YA Behemoth”, reviewed @ Vogue, 2014
"The Julia Page", profile and novel excerpt @ Vice, 2014
"Guilt and Tradition", novel excerpt @ Atticus Review, 2014
interview with Sophia Le Fraga @ HTMLGiant, 2013
“The Last Frontiers of Romance”, interview @ Philadelphia Review of Books, 2013
"I Might Have Forgot To Lock The Door", novel excerpt @ Vol.1 Brooklyn Sunday Stories, 2012
"I Would Have Wasted Those Thirty Dollars", story, @ Mr.Beller's Neighborhood, 2012
“Being Scott McClanahan”, interview, @ 3:am Magazine, 2011
"The MFA in Mixed Martial Arts" @, prose, Annandale Dream Gazette, 2011
"Computer Dream" @, prose, Annandale Dream Gazzette, 2011
personal blog @ Tumblr, 2011-21
contributor @ Thought Catalog, 2010-13