Updates
I’ve been doing a poor job of keeping this site updated. Since the last thing I posted on here, I have published this piece about my weird obsession with Richard Nixon, and the first installment of...
View ArticleTwo “appearances”
I’m gonna be on Wisconsin Public Radio’s Central Time from 5:30-6pm on Wednesday if anyone is interested. It will be live, so this could be an opportunity to watch someone embarrass themselves in real...
View ArticleA lot of updates at once
I have done a poor job maintaining this web site. I pledge to do better in future. My wife Ashley’s book on prison theatre is out. You can read an excerpt here. Since the last update to this site, I...
View ArticleLas Vegas Book Festival appearance/conversation with Thomas Frank
I enjoyed being on this Zoom panel with the writers Vi Khi Nao, José Orduña, and Alyse Burnside, moderated by T.R. Witcher, on the question of “Vegas as heartland.” I knew it was going to be a good...
View ArticleUpdates: Radio appearance, Fisher essay, column, Frank conversation, book...
Hi, folks! Sorry for not keeping this website updated enough. The other day I had a great conversation with the hosts of Eye 94 on Lumpen Radio, and yesterday my long-in-preparation essay about the...
View ArticleNew column for Plough
I reviewed a new biography of Toussaint Louverture, a novel by Gina Apostol, and some reissues by William Melvin Kelley for this month’s column!
View ArticleNew essay: The Strange Undeath of Middlebrow
Why do we still talk as though there were highbrow, lowbrow, and middlebrow art? I blame capitalism, quelle surprise, but I tried to do it in a fun way in this Hedgehog Review essay.
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I forgot to link my most recent books column for Plough. Also, for the moment, you can click here to see me interviewing Marilynne Robinson and Rebecca Makkai on the occasion of their receiving the...
View ArticleNew pieces on Rivette and Oyeyemi
Nice coincidence of publishing schedules! Today at Commonweal, I’m reviewing the most recent novel by one of my favorite contemporary writers, Helen Oyeyemi. And then at Mubi Notebook, I’m writing...
View ArticleI have a substack
Figured I should let people know. $5/month, at least eight posts a month/twice a week (Tues/Sat), and they won’t be, like, wimpy posts. Also, second book comes out in February! Happy holidays and...
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