I Married a Strange Person! | 1997 | dir. Bill Plympton

writer + editor

based in brooklyn, new york. managing editor of wig-wag, an online journal for personal essays about movies, and co-host of the film fest podcast with miya singer.

current projects

wig-wag: personal essays about movies

founding / managing editor
contact: wigwagmag@gmail.com

film fest: a podcast about movies

co-hosted with miya singer
produced by adam brown
contact: filmfestpod@gmail.com

montage: a weekly newsletter

a substack subsidiary of wig-wag

previous projects

the RS 500: telling stories in stereo

founding / managing editor
august 2014 - july 2019

bad for you: a newsletter about junk food

co-edited with moira mcavoy
august 2017 - february 2018

science rules: 25 essays about bill nye

one / two / three / four / five / six / seven / eight / nine / ten / eleven / twelve / thirteen / fourteen / fifteen / sixteen / seventeen / eighteen / nineteen / twenty / twenty-one / twenty-two / twenty-three / twenty-four / twenty-five

written for the collapsar
january 2016 - august 2017

publications archive

“there is nothing to be sad”
march danceness 2023 supplementary essay

fugazi - “waiting room”
march plaidness 2021 essay

kenny g - “songbird”
march badness 2020 essay

britny fox - “girlschool”
march shredness 2018 essay

“rockin’ for the one who is the rock”
march shredness 2018 supplementary essay

from esa-pekka salonen to hasa diga eebowai
essay in the collapsar - december 2016

on the choir’s FREE FLYING SOUL
music essay in the collapsar - october 2016

on carly rae jepsen’s EMOTION
with james brubaker in the collapsar - december 2015

my mother reads from her dream journal / hammerlock, 1980
poetry in hobart online - october 2014

02/01/2004
music essay in the fiddleback 3.3

spasm and shadow
poetry in PANK 9.7 - july 2014

pride parade, 1995
elegy, with holes
the conservation of matter
lyric essays in the rappahannock review 1.2 - spring 2013

believe
music essay in puerto del sol 49.2 - spring 2014

four boomboxes
music essay in the fiddleback 2.6 - december 2012

head-on blues
poetry in dialogist vol. 1 issue 1

an open letter to undated yard sale signs…
mcsweeney’s internet tendency - january 2010

podcast appearances

kate bush’s hounds of love
you forgot one - january 2023

fiona apple’s best album
you forgot one - june 2022

#68: hounds of love by kate bush
sound logic - april 2022

radiohead’s kid a
you forgot one - november 2021

radiohead’s OK computer
you forgot one - june 2021

ep. 67 - moulin rouge! (2001)
the zillennial canon - june 2021