Selected Articles
The Atlantic, “The Short Kings,” a feature about maverick investors on Wall Street who uncover corporate fraud—but are under investigation by the Department of Justice.
The New York Times Magazine, “The Pain Hustlers,” a feature about the Insys Therapeutics story, published in May 2018, before the case against the company’s top executives went to trial.
The New Republic, “The Man Who Wrote Too Much,” a feature-length profile of world literary sensation Karl Ove Knausgaard, reported in Norway and Sweden.
New York Magazine, “Just Kids,” a feature about the early days of writers Jeffrey Eugenides, David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, and Mary Karr, featuring interviews with Eugenides, Franzen, and Karr.
GQ, “The Fugitive, His Dead Wife, and the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory That Explains Everything,” a feature about an American murder suspect fighting extradition from Argentina, reported in Buenos Aires.
The Awl, “The Murders and the Journalists,” a review-essay about the Jeffrey MacDonald murder case and Errol Morris’s book about it, A Wilderness of Error.
London Review of Books, “White Boy Walking,” a review-essay about Jonathan Lethem’s work.
The New York Review of Books, “An Ordinary Girl,” a review-essay about the Patty Hearst case and novels based on it.
Tin House, “Consider the Gentrifier,” an essay about gentrification in Brooklyn, reprinted in Utne Reader.
Grantland, “Life After Moneyball,” about the 2012 Oakland A’s baseball team.
The New Republic, “The Meet Market,” a review-essay about the book Premarital Sex in America.
Wired, “Book Publishers Scramble to Rewrite Their Future,” a feature about changes in the publishing industry.
The New Republic, “Jaron Lanier and the Case for Moonshot Thinking,” a review of Lanier’s book Who Owns the Future?
The Awl, “The Shocking True Tale of the Mad Genius Who Invented Sea-Monkeys,” an essay about the strange biography of the man behind Sea-Monkeys.
n+1, “Or Are You Happy to See Me,” an essay about lap dances.
The Awl, “The Most Flagrantly Tactless First-Rate Brooklyn Novelist,” an obituary essay about writer L.J. Davis.