Sample the Work

An issue of The Lumberyard, a beautiful letterpress literary journal from Typecast Publishing, featuring my poem "Outside Atlantic City."

Selected Essays

Fantasia on the Dance Floor: Limahl and Miracles of ‘The Neverending Story‘” (March Faxness Tournament, 2023)

Notes on ‘E.T.,’ now that we are both in our 40s

There Are Many Atlantic Cities, and One Belongs to Levon Helm” (March Faxness Tournament, 2022)

Married at 15, or How he met my mother

Greetings from Tatooine, Arizona

Food and Spirits Writing

The Oracle Pour: A Salon column about cocktails, mindfulness, and life. Ask the Oracle: “What should I drink today?”

“Order the green milk at Disneyland’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge — it tastes better than nostalgia”

“A vegetarian goes to Transylvania: The case for breaking meat rules on vacation”

“Bar fight: In Puerto Rico, elite bartenders rum-ble in a cocktail mix-off”

Podcasting

These Miracles Work: A Hold Steady Podcast, by Sean Cannon and Erin Keane

In 2008, The Hold Steady released the seminal album “Stay Positive.” This is the story of that record, how things changed for the band, and how they recaptured that magic 10 years later.

Selected poems: 

Brewing Kombucha In Your Home Kitchen,” Still

The Living Dead,” The Collagist

A Supermarket in New Jersey,” “Las Meninas,” and “Decomposition Studies,” Pinwheel

Derby Day Rites,Velocity

Arts and Culture Writing

Work for Salon.com 

Writing portfolio