Published Writing
(Note: I’m still in the process of moving my website to Tumblr, so links to these actual pieces will be added in time.)
Articles & Essays (Select)
- “Return to Flight,” St. Louis Magazine, September 2010
- “What We Talk About When We Talk About Wine” (PDF), STL Mag, September 2009
- “How to Make a Beautiful Book” (PDF), St. Louis Magazine, November 08
- “Eastman’s Eyes,” St. Louis Magazine, May 08
- “Creative Chemist,” Washington U. Alumni Mag, Spring 2007
- “Head & Shoulders Above,” Washington U. Alumni Mag, Winter 06
- “Wine Importer’s Label Says It All: Impeccable,” Wash U. Mag, Fall 06
- “School’s Always ‘in’ for Software Designer,” (scroll) Wash U. Mag, Fall 06
- “Hot Water,” Claremont McKenna College Magazine, Summer 06
- “Growth Industry,” Claremont McKenna College Magazine, Summer 06
- “World Traveler Finds Adventure in Writing,” Wash. U. Alumni Mag., Wntr 05
- “Liquid Assets,” Claremont McKenna College Magazine, Fall 05
- “Matching Students to the School of Law” (PDF) W.U. Law Mag., Fall 05
- “Full-Court Press,” (scroll) Washington U. in St. Louis Alumni Magazine, Spring 05
- “David Sedaris: Unsentimental Journey” (cover), PLAYBACK:stl, 6/04
- “Picturing the Good, the Bad, & the Ugly,” Wash. U. Alumni Mag., Spring 04
- “Developing Both Rhyme & Reason,” Wash. U. Alumni Mag., Winter 03-04
- “The Gardening Connection” (PDF), St. Louis Magazine, 11/03
- “Two Roads: Reflections on Denial & Acceptance,” Common Space, 6/03
- “World, Meet BallzOn!” The Common Space, 4/03
- “The World’s a Stage” (PDF), St. Louis Magazine, 4/03
- “Rock’n’Roll High School,” The Common Space, 3/03
- “A Place for Self-Expression” (PDF), St. Louis Magazine, 12/02
- “Vineyard Life” (cover; PDF), The Magazine of Sigma Chi, Summer 01
Interviews
- Writer C.J. Hribal, Identity Theory, 7/3/06
- Novelist David Mitchell, PopMatters, 5/25/06
- Writer William H. Gass, The Believer, 11/05
- Poet Franz Wright, PLAYBACK:stl, 5/04 (on sqs post)
- Singer/songwriter Chris Mills, playbackstl.com 1/03
Book Reviews
- Staff Shelf: Milton, Paris Review, and North Korea, Look/Listen, 12/31/09
- Staff Shelf: Catching Up, Look/Listen, 11/8/09
- Staff Shelf: Robison, Holmes, de Botton, Look/Listen, 7/13/09
- Staff Shelf: Breytenbach, Goodman, Searls, Phillips, Look/Listen, 5/24/09
- Staff Shelf: Naipaul and Hearst, Look/Listen, 2/7/09
- Staff Shelf: Reading Diary ‘08, Look/Listen, 12/24/09
- “Basking in Hell: Returning to The Tunnel,” The Quarterly Conv., 12/4/06
- The Paris Review Interviews Vol. I, PLAYBACK:stl, 11/12/06
- All Aunt Hagar’s Children, Edward P. Jones, The Capital Times, 9/22/06
- The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, PopMatters, 6/30/06
- Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart, PopMatters, 6/30/06
- A Temple of Texts, William H. Gass, Identity Theory, 4/06
- “Sentences of the Year,” The Believer, 4/06
- Favorite Sentences of the 2005, SS.com, 1/06
- Best Books of 2005, PLAYBACK:stl [ditto below], 1/06
- Indecision, Benjamin Kunkel, 12/05
- 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel, Jane Smiley, 12/05
- The Diviners, Rick Moody, 11/05
- No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy, 10/05
- The People of Paper, Salvador Plascencia, 10/05
- Character Studies, Mark Singer, 10/05
- Gilead, Marilynne Robinson, 9/05
- Lend Me Your Character, Dubravka Ugresic, 9/05
- A Matter of Opinion, Victor Navasky , 8/05
- Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop, Jeff Chang, 8/05
- A Changed Man, Francine Prose, 7/05
- Nice Big American Baby, Judy Budnitz, 7/05
- Unformed Landscape, Peter Stamm, 6/05
- Happy Baby, Stephen Elliott, 5/05
- Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami, 5/05
- Extremely Loud & Incredible Close, J.S. Foer, 4/05
- Home Land, Sam Lipsyte, 3/05
- The Proust Project, 3/05
- The Ha-Ha, Dave King, 2/05
- Favorite Sentences of 2004, Me.com, 12/04
- Heir to the Glimmering World, Cynthia Ozick, 12/04
- America’s Magic Mountain, Curtis White, 11/04
- Three Trapped Tigers, C. Cabrera Infante, 11/04
- Night, Vedrana Rudan, 11/04
- The Irresponsible Self, James Wood, 10/04
- Port Mungo, Patrick McGrath, 10/04
- The Lemon Table, Julian Barnes, 10/04
- 2 Paris Review Anthologies, 9/04
- The Wasp Eater, William Lychack, 9/04
- Wilco: Learning How to Die, Greg Kot, 8/04
- A Chance Meeting, Rachel Cohen, 7/04
- Oblivion, David Foster Wallace, 6/04
- Do You Hear Them?, Nathalie Sarraute, Rain Taxi, Smr 04
- The Sleeping Father, Matthew Sharpe, 5/04
- The Living End, Stanley Elkin, 5/04
- Gotham Tragic, Kurt Wenzel, 4/04
- The True & Outst. Advts of the Hunt Sisters, E. Robinson, 3/04
- Vernon God Little, DBC Pierre, 2/04
- “7 From 75: Schenkenberg Whittles Down His List,” 1/04
- “A Book For Every Stocking,” 12/03
- Thank You For Not Reading, Dubravka Ugresic 12/03
- The Grasshopper King, Jordan Ellenberg, 11/03
- The King Is Dead, Jim Lewis, 10/03
- 101 Reykjavik, Hallgrimur Helgason, 9/03
- The Book Against God, James Wood, 9/03
- Rumble, Young Man, Rumble, Benjamin Cavell, 8/03
- Short People, Joshua Furst, 8/03
- Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood, 6/03
- Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo, 6/03
Music Reviews
- The Wall to Wall Sessions, Chris Mills, 10/05
- Chris Mills: Concert Preview, 9/04
- Christopher O’Riley: Concert Preview, 9/03
- Loneliness Knows My Name, Patrick Park, 9/03
- Transfiguration of Vincent, M. Ward, 9/03
- Tranquil Isolation, Nicolai Dunger, 5/03
- Fear Yourself, Daniel Johnston, 5/03
- Where Shall You Take Me?, Damien Jurado, 5/03
- I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (DVD), 4/03
- Cat Power: Live, 3/03
- You Are Free, Cat Power, 2/03
- Proof, Robert Skoro, 1/03
- Read Music/Speak Spanish, The Desaparecidos, 12/02
- Richard Buckner: Live, 11/02
- Since, Richard Buckner, Popular Music & Society, Fall 02
