(Many of my essays and reviews span multiple art forms, but in order to make my published writing a bit easier to navigate, I’ve organized these links by medium. [e] means a piece is 2,000 words or longer. You might see particularly interdisciplinary works pop up in multiple categories.)
Visual art:
On Dianna Settles’ “Enemy of the Century,” an exhibition at MARCH Gallery, published in the Village Voice on May 21, 2025
On Love, Joe: The Selected Letters of Joe Brainard, published in The Baffler on November 26, 2024 [e]
On Andrew Durbin’s The Wonderful World That Almost Was: A life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek (forthcoming in The Washington Post)
On traveling in the Czech Republic and Poland, trends in Holocaust memorials and W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz. Read an article about a fellowship I received that will allow me to research and complete the project. (forthcoming in ????) [e]
Books:
On Essex Hemphill’s Love is a Dangerous Word, published in The Nation on July 30, 2025 [e]
On Geoff Dyer’s Homework, published in the Los Angeles Times on June 9, 2025
On Selected Amazon Reviews by Kevin Killian, published in the Los Angeles Times on December 6, 2024
On Love, Joe: The Selected Letters of Joe Brainard, published in The Baffler on November 26, 2024 [e]
On Robert Glück and his book About Ed, published in The New Yorker on January 19, 2024 [e]
On Claire-Louise Bennett’s Checkout 19, published in the April 2022 issue of the Village Voice
On Gary Indiana’s Fire Season: Selected Essays, 1984-2021, published in Frieze on March 31, 2022
On Alejandro Zambra’s Chilean Poet, published in the March 2022 issue of the Village Voice
On Joy Williams’ Harrow, published in the October 2021 print issue of the Village Voice
On Yukio Mishima’s Star, published in the November/December 2019 issue of The Kenyon Review
On Maryse Meijer’s Rag, published in BOMB Magazine on August 1, 2019
On Thomas Bernhard’s The Loser, writers who feel jealous of musicians, and returning to my parents’ home in Chicago, published in the Winter 2019 issue of The Point [e]
On Dennis Cooper, his film Permanent Green Light, and life in an MFA program, published in the Los Angeles Review of Books on October 19, 2018 [e]
On Christine Schutt’s Pure Hollywood, published in 3:AM Magazine on April 12, 2018
On Wayne Koestenbaum’s My Lover, The Rabbi (forthcoming in The Washington Post)
On Andrew Durbin’s The Wonderful World That Almost Was: A life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek (forthcoming in The Washington Post)
On traveling in the Czech Republic and Poland, trends in Holocaust memorials and W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz. Read an article about a fellowship I received that will allow me to research and complete the project. (forthcoming in ????) [e]
Film:
“Michel Piccoli Is Alive,” about my obsession with the actor Michel Piccoli (1925-2020), published in Issue 28 of No Contact Magazine. See a video of me reading this as part of No Contact’s “Contactless Readings” series here
On Frederick Wiseman’s Monrovia, Indiana, published in Hyperallergic on October 25, 2018
On Dennis Cooper, his film Permanent Green Light, and life in an MFA program, published in the Los Angeles Review of Books on October 19, 2018 [e]
On Joshua Z. Weinstein’s Menashe, published in a print issue of the Village Voice on July 26, 2017
Music:
On Tobias Jesso Jr.’s Shine, published in Pitchfork on November 26, 2025
On Sudan Archives’ The BPM, published in Pitchfork on October 17, 2025
On Lyra Pramuk’s Hymnal, published in Pitchfork on June 13, 2025
On Time Indefinite by William Tyler, published in Pitchfork on April 30, 2025
On Joe McPhee’s I’m Just Say’n, published in Pitchfork on January 31, 2025
On Being Dead’s EELS, published in Pitchfork on October 3, 2024
On Nala Sinephro’s Endlessness, published in Pitchfork on September 11, 2024
On SUSS’s Birds & Beasts, published in Pitchfork on July 5, 2024
On Ornette Coleman’s Science Fiction, a Sunday Review published in Pitchfork on February 25, 2024 [e]
On Jake Muir’s Bathhouse Blues, published in Pitchfork on January 29, 2024
On Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter’s Saved!, published in Pitchfork on November 29, 2023
On L’Rain’s I Killed Your Dog, published in Artforum on October 16, 2023
On John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy’s Evenings at the Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy, published in Pitchfork on August 1, 2023 [e]
On Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog’s Connection, published in Pitchfork on July 13, 2023
On Meshell Ndegeocello, published in The Guardian on June 19, 2023
On Coil’s Horse Rotorvator, a Sunday Review published in Pitchfork on June 4, 2023 [e]
On Bill Frisell’s Four, published in Pitchfork on January 4, 2022
On Jeff Parker’s Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy, published in Pitchfork on November 12, 2022
On Oren Ambarchi, published in Artforum on September 27, 2022
On Badge Époque Ensemble’s Clouds of Joy, published in Pitchfork on September 9, 2022
On Diamanda Galás’ Broken Gargoyles, published in Pitchfork on August 29, 2022
On Panda Bear and Sonic Boom’s Reset, published in Pitchfork on August 11, 2022
On Perfume Genius’ Ugly Season, published in Pitchfork on June 16, 2022
On Sam Gendel and Antonia Cytrynowicz’s Live a Little, published in Pitchfork on May 19, 2022
On Gábor Lázár’s Boundary Object, published in Pitchfork on February 24, 2022
On Leo Nocentelli’s Another Side, published in Pitchfork on November 22, 2021
On Darius Jones’ Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation), published in Pitchfork on November 5, 2021
On Alexis Taylor’s Silence, published in Pitchfork on September 20, 2021
On A Place To Bury Strangers’ Hologram EP, published in Pitchfork on July 15, 2021
On SPELLLING’s The Turning Wheel, published in Pitchfork on June 28, 2021
On Sonic Boom’s Almost Nothing Is Nearly Enough, published in Pitchfork on April 23, 2021
On The Hold Steady’s Open Door Policy, published in Pitchfork on February 24, 2021
On Patricia Brennan’s Maquishti, published in Pitchfork on January 19, 2021
On Brandee Younger and Dezron Douglas’s Force Majeure, published in Pitchfork on December 7, 2020
On Nate Wooley’s Seven Storey Mountain VI, published in Pitchfork on November 4, 2020
On Elvis Costello’s Hey Clockface, published in Pitchfork on November 4, 2020
On Lou Reed’s New York, published in Pitchfork on September 26, 2020
On Jim O’Rourke’s Shutting Down Here, published in Pitchfork on August 14, 2020
On Nicolas Jaar’s Telas, published in Pitchfork on July 20, 2020
On James Krivchenia’s A New Found Relaxation, published in Pitchfork on June 29, 2020
On Let it Come Down’s Songs We Sang In Our Dreams, published in Pitchfork on June 12, 2020
On Deerhoof’s Future Teenage Cave Artists, published in Pitchfork on June 2, 2020
On Aksak Maboul’s Figures, published in Pitchfork on May 22, 2020
On Sun Araw’s Rock Sutra, published in Pitchfork on April 11, 2020
On Jeremy Cunningham’s The Weather Up There, published in Pitchfork on March 2, 2020
On Sqürl’s Some Music for Robby Müller, the films of Jim Jarmusch and the cinematography of Robby Müller, published in Pitchfork on February 6, 2020
On Dopolarians’ Garden Party, published in Pitchfork on January 13, 2020
On the music of Jonathan Richman, published in The Point on July 5, 2018 [e]
Personal Stuff:
On dating and sleeping with much older men and my relationship with my husband Jeff Weinstein (published in the October 19, 2024 issue of The Guardian Saturday Magazine)
“How I Learned To Stop Worrying; Or, The Straight Panic Defense,” a contribution to the anthology A Pill for Promiscuity: Gay Sex in an Age of Pharmaceuticals, edited by Jeffrey Escoffier and Andrew Spieldenner, and published on February 10, 2023 by Rutgers University Press. Order the book here.
On the writing of my novella “Sex With Andre,” published in The Puritan’s blog The Town Crier in two parts. Read part one here. Read part two here. (Now known as The Ex-Puritan, spacing and paragraph breaks are currently wonky as the editors update their website ❤ ❤ ❤ )
Hopefully Fun Stuff:
On my dream marijuana pipe, for Paul Jonathan’s substack “Inside, Or Deleted Scenes”
Daniel Felsenthal 