Portfolio

Recent interviews:

• Podcast interview with Tom Leveen
  28 Feb 2018 (Writer’s Bone)
• Technology and Religion Share the Power of Destruction
  16 Feb 2018 (Electric Literature)
• How Does Tragedy Become Art?
  6 Feb 2018 (Electric Literature)
• Finding Violence in Male Friendship
  29 Jan 2018 (Electric Literature)
• Why Is it So Hard for Andy Weir to Follow Up on His First Success?
  10 Jan 2018 (Electric Literature)
• A Naked Man Running Through Traffic, and Everything Else You Need to Know About L.A.
  20 Nov 2017 (Electric Literature)
• Haunted by Ghosts: The Millions Interviews Jesmyn Ward
  11 Sept 2017 (The Millions)
• Dedication and Discipline: Sing, Unburied, Sing Author Jesmyn Ward On Writing
  6 Sept 2017 (Writer’s Bone)
• From Convicted Murderer to Debut Author
  8 Aug 2017 (Electric Literature)
• Sarah Hill: a Good Short Story is “A Pill That Let’s Us See The Real”
  29 Jul 2017 (Electric Literature)
• The 10 Best Books of 2017 (So Far)
  11 July 2017 (Writer’s Bone)
• “Maybe it Was a Return:” Stephanie Powell Watts on Writing No One is Coming to Save Us
  6 Apr 2017 (Vol. 1 Brooklyn)
• Dan Chaon Isn’t Shy about His Obsessions
  30 Mar 2017 (Electric Literature)
• Speed and Crisis, with Daniel Magariel
  14 Mar 2017 (Electric Literature)
• Author Boris Fishman on Immigration and Identity in Fiction
  6 Mar 2017 (Writer’s Bone)
• The Dark Themes of Mariana Enriquez
  21 Feb 2017 (Electric Literature)
• George Saunders Likes a Challenge
  14 Feb 2017 (Electric Literature)
• 5 Short Story Collections by Women of Color You Need to Read Right Now
  22 Feb 2017 (Writer’s Bone)
• Podcast interview with Emily Ruskovich
  21 Feb 2017 (Writer’s Bone)
• Kevin Wilson on the Weirdness of Family
  31 Jan 2017 (Electric Literature)
• Chanelle Benz is Rewriting History
  19 Jan 2017 (Electric Literature)
• Erica Ferencik’s Off the Grid Thriller
  18 Jan 2017 (Electric Literature)

• Two Kinds of Aboutness: The Millions Interviews Michael Chabon
  22 Nov 2016 (The Millions)
• Sudden Feeling: An Interview with Zac Farro of HalfNoise
  21 Nov 2016 (All Things Go)
• At the Mercy of What’s to Come: An Interview with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
  16 Nov 2016 (All Things Go)
• Good Vibes, Good Sound: An Interview with Close Talker
  26 Oct 2016 (All Things Go)
• It’s All Very Fresh: An Interview with Hippo Campus
  19 Oct 2016 (All Things Go)
• I’m Not Entirely Demented: The Millions Interviews Nell Zink
  5 Oct 2016 (The Millions)
• Taking Nothing for Granted: a Conversation with Best-Selling Author Marti Leimbach
  9 Aug 2016 (Writer’s Bone)
• “All Our Suffering Matters” – Talking with Swan Huntley
  1 Aug 2016 (Electric Literature)
• “Good Fiction Involves a Kind of Magic”: An Interview with Alice Adams
  5 July 2016 (Vol. 1 Brooklyn)
• “I’m a Great Believer in Trusting the Writing Process”: An Interview with Deena Goldstone
  22 June 2016 (Vol. 1 Brooklyn)
• East Meets West Meets Tennis: An Interview with JR Thornton
  26 Apr 2016 (Vol. 1 Brooklyn)
• “What It Turned Into Was Really Specific”: Molly Prentiss on “Tuesday Nights in 1980”
  19 Apr 2016 (Vol. 1 Brooklyn)
• Literature In and On the Aftermath of Violence: An Interview with Karan Mahajan
  29 Mar 2016 (Vol. 1 Brooklyn)
• A Conversation with High Dive Author Jonathan Lee
  16 Mar 2016 (Writer’s Bone)
• Durham Author Travis Mulhauser on His Harshly Beautiful Debut Novel, Sweetgirl
  9 Mar 2016 (Durham INDY Week)
• Writing Through Grief, Unreliable Narrators, and Unlikely Structures: An Interview with Kristopher Jansma
  16 Feb 2016 (Vol. 1 Brooklyn)
• Garth Greenwell on Sex, Passion, and the Queer Body
  28 Jan 2016 (Literary Hub)
• A conversation with Sari Wilson
  19 Jan 2016 (this blog!)
• Every Story Is a Ghost Story: The Millions Interviews Samantha Hunt
  6 Jan 2016 (The Millions)
• An Interview with Rick Moody
  8 Dec 2015 (Full Stop)
• A conversation with Michael Bible
  8 Dec 2015 (this blog!)
• Richard Edwards on his rotted gut and a decade of rarities
  30 Nov 2015 (this blog!)
• A conversation with J. Ryan Stradal
  24 Nov 2015 (this blog!)
• After Happily Ever After: The Millions Interviews Michael Cunningham
  19 Nov 2015 (The Millions)
• An Interview with Bill Clegg
  3 Nov 2015 (Full Stop)
• The Tortoise, Not the Hare: The Millions Interviews Angela Flournoy
  27 Oct 2015 (The Millions)

Here are select features and interviews I did for Paste Magazine. A collection of all of my writings and reviews for the site can be found here.

• On an On: The Best of What’s Next – 12 Aug 2013
• Catching Up With Community‘s Jim Rash – 24 April 2013
• Parks and Recreation: The Story Behind TV’s Cutest Couple – 21 Feb 2013
• 30 Rock: Jack McBrayer on the Farewell Season – 11 Oct 2012
• Parenthood: Laughing Through the Tears – 8 Oct 2012
• Black Box Revelation: Belgium’s Breakout Duo – 4 Sept 2012
• Catching Up With House Creator David Shore – 24 May 2012
• Catching Up With Community‘s Yvette Nicole Brown – 20 May 2012
• Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros: Where They Want To Be – 9 May 2012
• Workaholics Creators Talk Upcoming Season – 24 March 2012
• DC Pierson: Bad at Girls, Great at Jokes – 23 March 2012
• Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s: Fully Recovered and A Lot More Rowdy – 21 March 2012
• 10 Arizona Bands You Should Listen To Now – 8 March 2012
• Sleeper Agent: The Best of What’s Next – 21 Feb 2012
• Young the Giant’s Sameer Gadhia Talks Upcoming Tour and Second Album – 1 Feb 2012
• Is Extremely Loud the Worst-Reviewed Oscar-Nominated Movie in History? – 25 Jan 2012
• Grouplove: The Best of What’s Next – 21 Nov 2011