A Selection of Essays, Interviews, Reported Features, and Reviews:

• "The Gourmand's Way," The New York Review of Books, June 2021
• "The Zabar's Connection," Food & Wine, May 2021
• "How One Sourdough Starter Traveled Across Brooklyn—And Beyond," Food & Wine, June 2020
• "On the Beat with Harper Lee," The New York Review of Books, July 2019
• "The Rise of the Sober Bar," BBC, May 2019
• "In Praise of Being High Maintenance," Nylon, July 2017
• "The Latest Beauty Trend Is Not Buying More Makeup," Racked, May 2017
• "Why The Outsiders Still Matters, 50 Years Later," Rolling Stone, April 2017
• "Tacky," Midnight Breakfast, December 2016
• "Harry Crews' Wild Ride," The New Republic, June 2016
• "A Caviar-Topped History of Dinner at the Oscars," Bon Appetit, February 2016
• "Harper Lee and the Football Coach," Men's Journal, February 2016
• "Harper Lee, 'To Kill a Mockingbird' author, dies at 89," Al-Jazeera America, February 2016
• "Sweet and Spicy Chili, Carolina Style," Men's Journal, January 2016
• "Meet America's Greatest Obituary Writer," Mental Floss, January 2016
• "One of D.C.'s most contentious pieces of real estate is 25 feet underground," Atlas Obscura, January 2016
• "Why Desperation Pies Are Making a Comeback," Bon Appetit, December 2015
• "Southern Comedy," Bookforum, November 2015
• "A Purrfectly Adorable Night at the Algonquin's Cat Show," Vanity Fair, August 2015
• "The Lost History of the American Lawn Chair," Men's Journal, July 2015
• "The Dean's List: Robert Christgau's 10,000 Opinions," Brooklyn Magazine, March 2015
• "Why You Can Find an Irish Pub Almost Anywhere on Earth," Men's Journal, March 2015
• Briefly Noted on Anne Tyler's A Spool of Blue Thread, The New Yorker, March 2015
• Interview with Poet and Antarctic Artist-In-Residence Jynne Dilling Martin, Brooklyn Magazine, February 2015
• "The Comments Have Failed Us," Brooklyn Magazine, August 2014
• Review of Deirdre Madden's Time Present and Time Past, The New Yorker, August 2014
• "Return to Sender: On the Strange Demise of The World's Number One Elvis Fan," Brooklyn Magazine, July 2014
• "Let's Talk About This Insanely Sexist World Cup Coverage," Brooklyn Magazine, July 2014
• "Rick Springfield talks about first novel," New York Daily News, April 2014
• "Death of a Pork Rind King," The Paris Review Daily, October 2013
• "What Dave Eggers' 'The Circle' Gets Wrong About Millennial Culture," The New York Daily News, October 2013
• "Flannery O'Connor and her peacocks," The New York Daily News, August 2013
• "Keith McCurdy Has A Thick Skin for Celebrity Ink," The New York Daily News, June 2013
• "Muckrakers, Inc," The New Inquiry, November 2012
• Homeland reviews, The Los Angeles Times, October 2012
• Aftermath review, The Christian Science Monitor, September 2012
• "DJ Names Inspired by Skymall," Ballast, September 2012
• "A Nose for Controversy," Print, September 2012
• "A League of Their Own," The Paris Review Daily, July 2012
• Killer on the Road review, Bookforum, June 2012
• "A Lighter Side of Arm Wrestling, for Charity, Sport, and Feminism," The New York Times, April 2012
• "Hocus Pocus," The Paris Review Daily, March 2012
• "In Miss Eudora's Garden," The Paris Review Daily, February 2012
• Up All Night recaps, The AV Club, January 2012-May 2012
• "10 Great TV Crossover Episodes," Flavorwire, February 2012
• "Riot in the Stacks", Print Magazine, February 2012
• Interview with Greil Marcus, Bookforum online, January 2012
• America's Next Top Model Recaps, The AV Club, September-December 2011
• "American Inferno," The Paris Review Daily, October 2011
• "The Women of Monster Truck Driving", Slate, October 2011
• "Hip-Hop, Hocus Pocus", The Daily, September 2011
• "Southern Gothic," The Paris Review Daily, August 2011
• America's Next Top Model recaps, The LA Times, September 2010-May 2011
• "Shark Week," Idiom Books, 2011
• "Laurie Anderson is Bored with the Avant-Garde," Salon, 2010
• "Quiet Riot," Review of Kyle Gann's No Such Thing As Silence, The Brooklyn Rail, 2010
• "The Cartography of Crime," Bookforum, 2010
• "In Defense of Yellow Journalism," Review of Kenneth Whyte's The Uncrowned King, 2010
• "The Worse You Are, The Better You Sleep," Interview online, 2010
• Review of Terry Castle's The Professor, The Rumpus, 2010
• "A Noise Supreme," The Greenpoint Gazette, 2009
• "Up Against the Ropes," The New York Times Local, 2009