Criticism & essays
Gregorian Moods, Dirt, February 2024
Bad Waitress, Dirt, June 2023
On Annie Ernaux on Alzheimer’s, Being Patient, April 2023
Hey Jude: on the stage adaptation of A Little Life, Dirt, October 2022
Sim(mortality), Dirt, September 2021
This isn’t like our other stories, Neutral Spaces, June 2021
Left wanting: on Lynn Steger Strong’s Want, Bookforum, October 2020
I think about my painting goblin in The Sims a lot, The Cut, August 2020
Do you have a reservation?: on Lara Williams’s Supper Club, Bookforum, November 2019
A blueprint for an anticapitalist life: on T Fleischmann’s Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through, The Nation, September 2019
Is ‘viral book’ an oxymoron?, Columbia Journalism Review, May 2019
Once more to the cat: on the reaction to You Know You Want This, LA Review of Books Blog, May 2019
Tweeting through doomsday: on Jonathan Franzen and Olivia Laing, Electric Literature, November 2018
I was warned: on Mary Higgins Clark and abusive men, Crimereads, July 2018
A dead end for mentorship: on Meg Wolitzer's The Female Persuasion, The Lifted Brow, May 2018
Prepare to be ruined, Mask Magazine, March 2018
The hater, Triangle House, March 2018
The reality of memoir: on Delphine de Vigan's Based on a True Story, The Rumpus, June 2017
Selected author interviews
On getting your work out into the world: an interview with Daisy Alioto, The Creative Independent, August 2021
Learn so much and see so much: an interview with Larissa Pham, BOMB, June 2021
Freedom and redemption: an interview with Nina Renata Aron, BOMB, December 2020
A higher form of power: an interview with Chelsea Hodson, Triangle House, June 2019
A raw portrait of a bipolar teenage girl, an interview with Juliet Escoria, Electric Literature, May 2019
Interview with Nico Walker on Cherry, Electric Literature, October 2018
Interview with Michelle Dean on Sharp, Bookforum, September 2018
AIDS is the antagonist: an interview with Rebecca Makkai, Electric Literature, July 2018
Do sophisticated midwesterners exist? an interview with Curtis Sittenfeld, Electric Literature, July 2018
Interview with Rachel Kushner on prison abolition & The Mars Room, Electric Literature, May 2018
Motherhood is what keeps women oppressed: an interview with Meaghan O'Connell, Electric Literature, March 2018
The Rumpus mini-interview project: Chelsea Martin, The Rumpus, December 2017
Interview with Eli Valley on Diaspora Boy, Electric Literature, October 2017
Claire Messud on the power and pitfalls of female friendship, Electric Literature, October 2017
Interview with Rachel Khong on Goodbye, Vitamin, Bookforum, August 2017
Interview with Camille Bordas on How To Behave in a Crowd, Electric Literature, August 2017
The Hollywood of the self: an interview with Catherine Lacey, Electric Literature, June 2017
The power and purpose of gossip: an interview with Katherine Heiny, Electric Literature, May 2017
Interview with Melissa Febos on Abandon Me, Bookforum, March 2017
Older work
The point is art, Triangle House, January 2018
The desires of the protagonist: on Alissa Nutting's Made for Love, The Fanzine, July 2017
Forging a different way of being: on Romina Paula's August, 3:AM Magazine, June 2017
Durga Chew-Bose's taxonomy of self: on Too Much and Not the Mood, 3:AM Magazine, April 2017
San Fermin's Allen Tate on Solitude and His Solo Debut 'Sleepwalker,’ The Village Voice, January 2017
Forgetting Cormac McCarthy: on dating men who won't read books by women, Refinery29, July 2016
On spending Christmas alone, The Washington Post, December 2015
Suspicion and the single girl, Bustle, May 2016
Sexual harassment in the service industry is so common that it can start feeling normal, The Frisky, August 2016
A financial defense of the service industry, The Billfold, August 2016
In defense of not cooking, The Rumpus, December 2015