Essays
“Where You Lead,” anthologized in LIFE'S SHORT, TALK FAST: 15 WRITERS ON WHY WE CAN'T STOP WATCHING GILMORE GIRLS (W.W. Norton), November 2024
“Little Ditty,” Ninth Letter, May 2024
“The Middle of Everywherre: How Nelly’s ‘Hot in Herre’ Defines Millennial Pop,” March Danceness 2024 - to be anthologized in 2026
“The Elvis Room,” anthologized in A Flame Called Indiana, August 2023
“Clippings,” IMAGE Journal, July 2023
“A Place for It,” No Tokens, October 2022
“The Elvis Room,” New England Review, Fall 2022 - named Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2023
“Somebody To Love: On Joe Cocker’s ‘With a Little Help from My Friends,’” March Faxness
“System Failure,” The Rumpus, August 2021
“The Middle,” Sewanee Review, Summer 2021 - Pushcart Prize Anthology Special Mention
Not Here, Babe! On Pavement’s “Summer Babe (Winter Version),” March Plaidness
Quarantine Notes: I wish you music, I offer you playlists, Oklahoma Center for the Humanities
Purchasing Powers: Luxury Healing Crystals & the Pursuit of Placebo, The Believer
Liner Notes: Linda Martell, “Bad Case of the Blues,” Oxford American
"The Woman in the Wall: Answering the Knock in the Middle of the Night,” Catapult
On Bulletboys' "Smooth Up in Ya," March Shredness
"Stuck Inside Nobel with the Memphis Blues Again," Boulevard
"Dust in the Wind," Tin House
"Taking Back Tuesday: Emo Revival Vs. Emo Nostalgia," Westword
"After Midnight in Bloomington," The Journal, anthologized in The Essay Form(s) (Columbia University Press)
"A Hole in the World," HAD
"Ode to Milwaukee," Great Lakes Review
"Almost Grown Up with Jimmy Eat World," Speakers in Code
"The Scrambler," Ninth Letter