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SELECTED WRITING

What Happened to the Trump Resistance?” The New Yorker

The Hollow Allure of Spotify WrappedThe New Yorker

How Podcasts are Transforming the Presidential Election" The New Yorker

How Drake Lost the PlotThe New Yorker

Why Do Pop’s Biggest Stars Adore Michael Uzowuru?The New York Times

Hit BottomThe New York Times Magazine

In Praise of Unfinished BasementsThe New York Times Magazine

FICTION

The Good LifeLos Angeles Review of Books Quarterly

Shrine RoomBellevue Literary Review

Doubting the EnterpriseSonora Review

New Life from Dead Things" Quarterly West

CRITICISM, ESSAYS, & JOURNALISM

Podcast: “What Does It Mean to Resist Trump in 2025?" The New Yorker

Twin Shadow’s Georgie Pitchfork

Bon Iver’s “Everything Is Peaceful LovePitchfork

Khari Lucas’ Take Off from Mercy Pitchfork

Bon Iver’s SABLE. Pitchfork

Role Model’s Kansas Anymore Pitchfork

The Hosts of Journalism’s Favorite Podcast Say GoodbyeThe New York Times

2hollis’ boy Pitchfork

How to Dress Well’s I Am Toward You Pitchfork

Mount Kimbie’s The Sunset Violent Pitchfork

Nourished by Time’s Catching Chickens Pitchfork

1010Benja’s Ten Total Pitchfork

Mk.gee’s Two Star & the Dream Police Pitchfork

Skip ShotVictory Journal

dreamTX’s Living in Memory of Something Sweet Pitchfork

John Carroll Kirby’s Blowout Pitchfork

The Japanese House’s In the End It Always Does Pitchfork

Balmorhea’s Music is Unbound From Space and Time—but Not TexasTexas Monthly

Brevin Kim’s Big, Bleeding HeartSpin

Westerman’s An Inbuilt Fault Pitchfork

James Ivy’s Everything Perfect Pitchfork

Sam Gendel’s Cookup Pitchfork

U.S. Girls’ Bless This Mess Pitchfork

Jane Remover’s Outer SpaceThe FADER

On Lil Yachty’s Psychedelic PivotGQ

The Model Behind the Athleisure Label Friends With AnimalsThe New York Times

S.G. Lewis’ AudioLust & HigherLove Pitchfork

Metro Boomin’s Heroes & Villains Pitchfork

Beatenberg’s On the Way to Beatenberg Pitchfork

Brockhampton Breaks Up—TwiceTexas Monthly

Phoenix’s Alpha Zulu Pitchfork

Hawa’s Hadja Bangoura Pitchfork

Dear Nora’s Human Future Pitchfork

Nick Hakim’s Cometa Pitchfork

The 1975’s Being Funny in a Foreign Language Pitchfork

Kenny Beats’ Louie Pitchfork

Lean Years’ Sides Pitchfork

Why Bonnie’s Nostalgic Alt-Rock Searches for a Higher MeaningAlternative Press

Tink’s Pillow Talk Pitchfork

Art Moore’s Art Moore Pitchfork

Day Wave’s Pastlife Pitchfork

Julien Baker’s B-Sides Pitchfork

Sunday Review: Ja Rule’s Pain is Love Pitchfork

The Surprising Southern Dance Roots of Beyoncé’s RenaissanceTexas Monthly

Wet’s Pink Room Pitchfork

Logic’s Vinyl Days Pitchfork

Drake’s Passionate, Calculated Love Affair with HoustonTexas Monthly

M Field’s Re: M Field Pitchfork

Tate McRae’s i used to think i could fly Pitchfork

Hovvdy’s Billboard for My Feeling Pitchfork

Hatchie’s Giving the World Away Pitchfork

Christian Alexander I Don’t Like You Pitchfork

BAYNK’s Adolescence Pitchfork

midwxst’s better luck next time Pitchfork

waveform*’s Last Room Pitchfork

Majid Jordan’s Wildest Dreams Pitchfork

Hovvdy’s True Love Pitchfork

Searching for an American Epistemology in Lost in SummerlandPloughshares

Decoding the Silences in Gayl Jones’s CorregidoraPloughshares

Seeking Meaning and Survival in Something Wonderful” Ploughshares

Caleb Azumah Nelson’s Open Water Ploughshares

Joseph Andras’ Tomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us Ploughshares

Emily St. John Mandel’s The Glass Hotel Ploughshares

Leonora Carrington’s The Hearing Trumpet Ploughshares

Emily Nemens’s The Cactus League Ploughshares

Jonathan Franzen’s Crossroads Chicago Review of Books

Ben Lerner's The Topeka School Porter House Review

Look What You’ve Done: Recontextualizing Drake’s Take Care" Porter House Review

Jenny Odell Discusses the Nature of Doing NothingPorter House Review

Forever YouMcNeese Review