Selected Writing + Podcasts

Podcast Appearances

• Armchair Expert
• 10 Percent Happier with Dan Harris
• Slate’s Death, Sex, and Money
• The Dougy Center for Grieving Children and Families
• Duncan Trussell Family Hour

The New York Times

• “A.I.’s Anti-A.I. Marketing Strategy”
• “Can a Painting Make a Skeptic Believe?”
• “There’s Nothing Magic in Artificial Intelligence”
• “We’re in a New Age of Techno-Spiritualism”
• “Francis Bacon Read Just as He Painted: Deep, Dark and Bleak”
• “Wes Anderson, Curator? The Filmmaker Gives It a Try”
• “From Clay Tablets to Smartphones: 5,000 Years of Writing”
• “Provoking, or Pondering? What Makes the Best Satire?”
  

The Wall Street Journal

• “Now In-Demand at Fashion Houses and Galleries? Novelists and Poets”
• “A Hollywood Feeding Frenzy Is a Boon for Novelists. Is It Good for the Novel?”
• “Jonathan Franzen, With Mom in Mind, Softens His Edge”
• “Michael Lewis’s ‘The Premonition’: A Closer Look at How the Pandemic Response Went Awry”
• “Pakistani Artist Salman Toor’s Success Was a Surprise Even to Him”
• “Trevor Paglen Is Putting the Art in Artificial Intelligence”
• “Emma Cline’s Brilliant, Dark Mind”
• “David Mitchell Creates Worlds With His Fiction”

The Paris Review

• “The Myth of the Artistic Genius“
• “The Intelligence of Plants“
• “Fra Angelico’s Divine Emotion“
• “What’s the Use of Beauty?“
• “The Unknowable Artist: Stéphane Mandelbaum“
• “You’ll Never Know Yourself: Bonnard and the Color of Memory“
• “Daddy Issues: Renoir Père and Fils“
• “Rethinking Schiele“
• “Does Bad Romance Lead to Great Art?“
• “The Art of Wanderlust“
• “The Art of Madness“

Aeon

• “The Happiness Ruse” (on positive thinking)
• “On Coincidence”
• “The Coming-of-Age Con”
• “Drugs du Jour”
• “Only the Lonely”

The New Yorker

• “Lost Toys and Flying Machines: A Talk with Kazuo Ishiguro”
• “Julian Barnes Looks at Art”
• “John Banville on the Utter Mystery of Writing”

Frieze

• “The Fraught Future of the Ethnographic Museum“
• “How Germany’s Far Right is Co-opting Art History”

New York Magazine

• “Untangling the Complicated, Controversial Legacy of Sigmund Freud”

The Atlantic

• “The Psychological Comforts of Storytelling”

Poetry Foundation

• “Broken Pieces” (on poet Cynthia Cruz)

The Baffler

• “Market Values” (on art auctions)

The Times Literary Supplement

• “In Search of Futures Past” (on Proust)

Articles—On Grief

• “It’s Mourning in America” (The New Yorker)
• “How Should We Mourn the End of Summer” (The New York Times)
• “Let’s Talk about Our Grief” (TIME)
• “‘Perfection You Cannot Have’: On Agnes Martin and Grief” (The Paris Review)
• “How Reading Grief Memoirs Helped Cody Delistraty Understand His Loss in New Ways” (LitHub)
• “Reading through Grief” (Nautilus)
• “Is Laughter Really the Best Medicine? A Journalist Puts the Proverb to the Test” (Big Think)
• “The Five Stages of Grief Are Actually Wrong” (Oprah Daily)