Writing
Peer reviewed
“The Acid-Washed Novel,” Post45, 2021
“Muck, Memory, Regeneration: Abject histories in Hurston and Du Bois,” in Swamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies, Louisiana State University Press 2020
Catalog essays
“The Last Spike” and “Leland Stanford Sr. and the Central Pacific Railroad” in A Gallery Guide to the Melancholy Museum, Cantor Center for Visual Arts 2019
Public scholarship, criticism, reviews (selected; highlighted are particular favorites of mine):
“Hype Train Coming,” n+1
“Nowhere Men: Pop Music and the Waning of Character,” Mid Theory Collective
“In Big Star’s ‘Radio City,’ The Old Spells Don’t Work,” New Yorker
“A Business Doing Pleasure with You,” Cleveland Review of Books
“The Problem of Mid for the Criticism of the Present,” Mid Theory Collective
“Adventures in Style,” Chronicle of Higher Education
Review of Fucked Up, Another Day, Pitchfork
“Tropical Paradise,” TANK
“Secret Bogus World,” Cleveland Review of Books
“In Defense of That Whole Weird ‘90s Rock Marble-Mouthed Thing,” Defector
“Stream of Consciousness: Lana Del Rey and the immediacy paradigm,” TANK (with illustrations by Marco Maraggi)
Review of Itasca, Imitation of War, Pitchfork
“Page Against the Machine,” Bookforum
Review of The Mountain Goats, Jenny from Thebes, Pitchfork
Review of Lydia Loveless, Nothing’s Gonna Stand in My Way Again, Pitchfork
“Passionate Kisses: The Soundtrack at CVS,” Paris Review
“Going Live,” n+1
“Dream of Antonoffication,” The Drift
“All Roll Is B-Roll,” The Drift
“What Next,” Real Life
“Something Sharp,” Oxonian Review
“Feel for You,” Real Life
“The Novel of Vibes,” Post45: Contemporaries
(with Olivia Stowell) Introduction to the Dark Academia cluster, Post45: Contemporaries
“A Good Day at the Old Sweatshop,” Novel Dialogue
“Getting Personal,” Chicago Review
“Vibe, Mood, Energy: Or, bust-time reenchantment,” The Drift
“Literary Miniaturist: On Mark Leyner,” n+1
“Pod-Products for Pod-People,” The Baffler
“Late Style in Rock and Roll,” Los Angeles Review of Books