Selected Non-Fiction

On Media/Culture:

“Who’s Laughing Now: Anti-Woke Comedy in the Age of Cancellation” - The Baffler

“Good Bad Bad Good: What was the Golden Age of TV?” - Harper’s

"The Southie in SMILF, A Very Boston Comedy" - The New Yorker

"Texas Forever" - Paris Review Daily (a longer version of this piece appears in the anthology A Friday Night Lights Companion: Love, Loss, and Football in Dillon, Texas

"A Love Letter to Elvis Costello" - Paris Review Daily

Letters to Don Draper (archive of weekly column) - Paris Review Daily

"Louie C.K. and the Rise of the Laptop Loner" - The Los Angeles Review of Books

“My Bad Memory” - The Rumpus

“In the Penile Colony: Jordan Castro’s Acidic Campus Novel” - Bookforum

“The Impish Modernism of Michael Clune” - The Nation

“Zoom and Doom: Honor Levy’s Piety-Defying Debut” - Bookforum

“Sad People Who Smoke: On Mary Robison” - Paris Review Daily

“Touchdown and Out: Eugene Marten’s Novel of a Footballer’s Fall from Grace” - Bookforum

“Alt the Lonely People: Tao Lin Meets Midlife” - Bookforum

“Family Business” (a profile of Atticus Lish) - Air Mail

“Review of Blake Bailey’s Philip Roth: The Biography - 4Columns

“Now the Grammar of Our Discontent: The Strange, Pristine Sentences of Gary Lutz” - Bookforum

“Review of Lucy Ives’ Loudermilk” - 4Columns

"Back In The Driver's Seat: Mary Robison’s Why Did I Ever" - 4Columns

"Schtick Figures: Jeremy Dauber's History of Jewish Humor" - Bookforum

"Lost & Found: On John Berryman's Recovery" - Tin House

"Review of Etgar Keret's The Seven Good Years" - NYTBR

"Notes on Raunch - Bookforum

"Review of House of Holes by Nicholson Baker" - Bookforum

"Review of The More You Ignore Me by Travis Nichols - Bookforum (paywall)

"Review of A Heaven of Others by Joshua Cohen" - Bookforum

"Review of The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich - Bookforum

"Review of Don Juan: His Own Version by Peter Handke" - Bookforum

"When Fury Becomes the Essay: Otherwise Known as the Human Condition by Geoff Dyer" - New York Observer

“My Favorite Clause: Ruminations on Stuart Dybek” - The Rumpus

“Autumn of the Heart” - Electric Literature

"Passover, a Conversation" (w/ Jonathan Wilson) - Tin House Issue 67

"“View of Cambodia from the Backseat of a Toyota” - American Reader

"Amateur Night" - Paris Review Daily