Writing & Editing

ON PLACES

“A Future Woven in Rayon,” Chemical Heritage, Fall 2009: review of the Museo Territoriale Bassa Friulana, Torviscosa, Italy

“Passport NY: Austria,” Time Out New York, October 22, 2009: Austrian culture in New York City

“The Lost Twin,” The Believer, November/December 2008: a half-scale World Trade Center tower

“Admiration Journey,” The Believer, April 2007: a visit to Thomas Bernhard’s house

ON BOOKS

Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York, William Grimes. Emdashes, October 27, 2009

The House of Wittgenstein, Alexander Waugh. Time Out New York, February 19, 2009

Norman Lewis’s Letters from a Vanished Spain, Emdashes, October 24, 2008

Dresden, Lord Berners. Time Out New York, October 9, 2008

First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, the Capital of the 21st Century, David Lida. Stop Smiling Online, August 2008

On Jonathan Raban’s Soft City and Gourmet’s cartoons, Emdashes, August 20, 2008

Revisiting John McPhee on NYC’s Greenmarkets, Emdashes, August 5, 2008

Personal Days, Ed Park. Stop Smiling, Issue 35, June 2008

A Writer’s People: Ways of Looking and Feeling, V.S. Naipaul. Time Out New York, April 23, 2008

The Rain Before It Falls, Jonathan Coe. Stop Smiling Online, April 2008

Cleaver, Tim Parks. Time Out New York, February 13, 2008

Day, A.L. Kennedy. Time Out New York, January 17, 2008

The Assistant, Robert Walser. Time Out New York, July 21, 2007

Rose of No Man’s Land, Michelle Tea. Time Out New York, March 2, 2006

My Holy War, Jonathan Raban. Time Out New York, December 29, 2005

Seven Lies, James Lasdun. Time Out New York, October 6, 2005

A Woman in Berlin, anonymous. Time Out New York, August 18, 2005

Schwarzenegger Syndrome, Gary Indiana. Time Out New York, May 26, 2005

Campo Santo, W.G. Sebald. Time Out New York, March 3, 2005

On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House, Peter Handke. Newsday, December 17, 2000

The Blackwater Lightship, Colm Toibin, Village Voice, August 29, 2000

Sarah, J.T. Leroy. Voice Literary Supplement, April-May 2000

Three-Month Fever, Gary Indiana. The Stranger, June 27, 1999

Space Ages, Margaret Wertheim, Metropolis, April 1999

Queer 13, ed. Clifford Chase. Newsday, August 23, 1998

Enduring Love, Ian McEwan. Bookforum, Spring 1998

School of Fish, Eileen Myles. The Nation, July 21, 1997

Let It Bleed, Gary Indiana. The Nation, Oct. 21, 1996

nonfiction reviews, Kirkus Reviews, 1996-97

Writing Home, Alan Bennett, The Nation, November 27, 1995

INTERVIEWS

John Lanchester: “The Parent Trap”, Time Out New York, February 22-28, 2007

Matthew Stadler: “A Boy Leading a Man,” Newsday, February 21, 1999

Lynne Tillman: “Describe the Dirt”, The Stranger, February 19, 1998

&c.

Before Hersh and Mayer: Waterboarding Described in a 1946 New Yorker, Emdashes, March 18, 2009

Deadline Poets: Obituaries Panel at the NYPL, Emdashes, October 28, 2008

Vile Bodies: David Levine’s Prickly New Yorker Past, Emdashes, October 15, 2008

Merrill Lynch in The New Yorker, Emdashes, October 2, 2008

The AIG Building in ‘Talk of the Town’, Emdashes, September 26, 2008

TRAVEL GUIDES

Let’s Go 1993 series, Managing Editor

Let’s Go: London 1992, Editor

Let’s Go: London 1991, Researcher-writer