Updated 2/24/2024

I'm delighted to once again be part of a Josh Glenn “Enthusiasm” series, a creative cattle call for the culturally cockeyed. TUBE YOUR...

At Critics at Large: my review of The Leopold and Loeb Files, concerning a crime that after nearly a century will not let us go.

My appreciation of Panic, an underappreciated, little-seen movie about the psychological crisis of a hit man.

At Critics at Large: my review of Michelle Dean's Sharp, concerning ten woman writers "who made an art of having an opinion."

I've done a handful of public readings in my life, and while none has been completely unpleasurable, probably the best so far occurred...

My review of Neil Young’s ROXY: Tonight’s the Night Live, capturing the moment when he really got into the ditch.

At Critics at Large: remembering a modest but flawless little crime drama that has never left my memory.

At Critics at Large: My piece on the bilious, brilliant books of the Brown Buffalo, Oscar Zeta Acosta.

At HiLobrow: My contribution to a year-long series in which 52 writers wax on one of their favorite albums of the Nineties. (N.B. This...

At Critics at Large: my review of Ryan H. Walsh’s Astral Weeks, concerning Van Morrison, the Lyman cult, and everything weird and...