



Technofeelia vols. 1-4, The Believer Magazine
Adventures in technology familiar and strange, my four part series with The Believer Magazine, nominated for Reuben and Ignatz awards
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Give & Take. The Verge, February 2022
My take on social media’s relationship to art and commerce, featuring Georgia O’Keefe’s Deer Skull, Lewis Hyde’s The Gift, and my most popular women’s underwear cartoon of all time
When a Fictional Utopia Offers a Pathway Home. The New York Times Book Review, August 2021
Reading one of my favorite books, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always Coming Home, after my cross-country move to California.
From the Notebook of a Fellow Graphic Memoirist: An Illustrated Review of Nora Krug’s Belonging. Moment Magazine, November 2018
I review German illustrator Nora Krug’s graphic memoir, Belonging, a reckoning with her family’s history and potential complicity in Nazi crimes, and I imitate the book’s own gorgeous collage art-style.
Two Cartoonists Sit on a Bench and Talk: An Illustrated Interview. Literary Hub, October 2018
I interview fellow New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck about her new beautiful and intimate graphic memoir, Passing for Human.
Prose
What Banning Maus Means for the Generation of Artists It Inspired. February 2022
I consider the benefits of chorus over cannon.
Re: Hate Mail. November 2018
After receiving a string of menacing emails, I wonder: Can I safely extend a writer’s empathy to men who harass me on the internet?
The Actuary’s Dilemma. July 2017
Aaron is a clear-headed thinker, able to deduce “bestness” in all life situations. But when he’s transferred from the green gray sprawl of Waltham, Massachusetts, away from his girlfriend Sarah, to the strange, quaint streets of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where the local ice cream parlors introduce him to more than just vanilla soft-serve, what will become of his love life and his comfortable ideology?
Aaron and Sarah had been dating for nine months when Aaron was transferred to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He kissed her goodbye and boarded the train. The sun rose. He found a window seat and watched her waving from the platform. In her favorite yellow tank top, Sarah had a flatness to her. Her hairline to her hips charted a wide, golden plain. … Published in H.O.W. Journal, Issue 13 (last issue)
Learning to Love the Clothes My Mother Bought Me. May 2017
I reflect on my mother’s glamour and how a childhood of textile wars reached its copacetic ceasefire.
“Then a guy walks in with a megaphone. He’s not the smartest guy at the party, or the most experienced, or the most articulate. But he’s got that megaphone.” Prescient George Saunders offered this thought experiment in 2007. Here it becomes an extended allegory for our unfortunate political circumstances.
Quantum Theory and The Entanglement of Oolong. September 2015.
An engineer falls for a tea drinking co-worker. Will a gift from his brother and a series of falsifiable experiments cure his perplexing ailment?
The Greatest Story Ever Written. June 2015
What happens to a group of struggling writers when The Greatest Story Ever Written lands on the literary scene?
This is a Love Story. May 2015
As thought experiment meets love story, what does student Missy and Professor David’s unlikely romance say about Hume’s empirical notion of the self?
A List of Names for Our First Born Child. May 2015
Fiction meets memoir as a daughter and her mother review a list of the dead in preparation for the naming of an unborn child.
What we take with us: February 2014
An explore-your-roots voyage has our snarky protagonist less than enthused until she finds something she can take with her, literally.