Articles

A Review of “Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs”

For The Rumpus, I reviewed Jennifer Finney Boylan’s most recent memoir.

Review of “Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir”

For the Los Angeles Review of Books, I reviewed Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman’s new memoir, “Sounds Like Titanic,” which chronicles the years she spent working as a sham violinist for a nationally recognized American composer.

The Reeducation of a Racist: A review of Eli Saslow’s “Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist”

For the Los Angeles Review of Books, I reviewed “Rising Out of Hatred,” by Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow. It’s the story of a young man raised in the heart of white nationalism — and expected to lead it into the next generation — who disavows the movement and goes on to speak out against its evils.

A Review of Karen Auvinen’s Rough Beauty

For Brevity, I wrote a review of Karen Auvinen’s debut memoir, Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living.

John Branch’s Bold and Hopeful “The Last Cowboys”

For the Los Angeles Review of Books, (LARB), I reviewed New York Times reporter John Branch’s new book, “The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West.”

A Review of Scott Freeman’s Saving Tarboo Creek

For Brevity, I wrote a review of “Saving Tarboo Creek” by Scott Freeman

In Search of Good Death: A Q&A with Caitlin Doughty

Here’s my first piece for The Hairpin — an interview with Caitlin Doughty, author of “From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death.”

A Review of Jennifer Latson’s The Boy Who Loved Too Much

My first book review was just published for Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction. It’s a critique of Jennifer Latson’s memoir, The Boy Who Loved Too Much.

‘There Have Always Existed People Who’ve Simply Wanted to be Alone’: An Interview with Michael Finkel

For Hazlitt, I interviewed Michael Finkel, author of The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit. Here’s our conversation.

Grandfathers and Child Molesters

My interview with Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, for LARB.