Lily Houston Smith
Essays
The Atlantic, ‘I’ve Seen Several Giants Die on My Land’
Lapham’s Quarterly, Work the Lazy Way (listen to this article on Curio)
Guernica, Cat Dreams (featured on Book Jotter’s weekly round-up)
The Rumpus, The Last Book I Loved: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slapstick and the Shifting of Cultural Values (featured on the Poets & Writers Daily News round-up)
Soft Punk Magazine, Glimpsing Self-Mastery: A Devout Over-Groomer Reviews the Callus Shaver
Laid Off NYC, How to Survive a Late Capitalist Hellscape
Book Reviews
The Nation, In the Shadow of Sappho
Oprah Daily, 5 Books Every Mother Will Enjoy
Cleveland Review of Books, Kaleidoscopic Structures: On Ling Ma’s “Bliss Montage”
LA Review of Books, As Lost as the Rest of Us: On Jeff Deutsch’s “In Praise of Good Bookstores”
Chicago Review of Books, Talking to Ghosts in “Passersthrough”
Chicago Review of Books, Conspiracy Theories and Millennial Anxiety in “MONARCH”
Chicago Review of Books, The Violence of Photography in Stephanie Gangi’s “Carry the Dog”
Chicago Review of Books, The Downside to Upgrading in “The Body Scout”
LA Review of Books, Growing Up Fast, Never Growing Up: On Erika Schickel’s “The Big Hurt”
The Rumpus, Panic Mode: The Influencing Machine by Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld
Soft Punk Magazine, Much to be Desired: Clare Sestanovich’s Objects of Desire Doesn’t Quite Satiate
Laid Off NYC, READING LIST: Novels to Help You Prepare for the End Times
Vol.1 Brooklyn, Vulgar Translation: “The Trojan Women” by Anne Carson and Rosanna Bruno
Soft Punk Magazine, Wavering Fixations: Alison Bechdel’s The Secret to Superhuman Strength Wobbles Under its Own Weight
Laid Off NYC, READING LIST: For Those of Us Who Are Unsure if Our Lockdown Drinking Has Gotten Out of Hand
Interviews and Reporting
Insider, A recruiter for IBM breaks down how to get a job at the company
Curatorial Affairs, Little Seeds of Your Bones: Amy Bravo
The Fine Print, Inside The Fine Print’s Inaugural Subscribers, Sources, and Friends Mixer
The Rumpus, Starting with Fire: A Conversation with Mai Der Vang
Soft Punk Magazine, “This Matrix of Consumption” — Alexandra Kleeman
Cleveland Review of Books, Freedom and Space: In Conversation with New Yorker Cartoonist Will McPhail
Laid Off NYC, Music, Grief and Community: In Conversation with Alyssa Joseph
Laid Off NYC, An Infinity of Worlds: In Conversation with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro