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New Books Podcast

LA RB Film Editor Annie Berke and I spoke with Caleb Zakarin, Assistant Editor of the New Books Network on their podcast and an Angeleno,...

ASA in New Orleans

In November, I flew to New Orleans for The American Studies Association's annual meeting, on the theme The Roof Is On Fire. I got to...

ASAP in Los Angeles

I wrote about Synanon, and a strange set of personal connections I have to the history of that group, for this talk. Fingers crossed I...

Lit Lit

The Lit Lit Fair at Hauser Wirth last weekend was super energizing. I spoke at LARB's panel about print and the Quarterly, picked up some...

The Land

He has a lot of insight into how nostalgia is its own trap — about what it means to love a city that doesn't know how to handle its own...

Twenty Five Years Later

It has taken me 25 years, in a way, to write this essay. The past few weeks—scratch that—the past few years have been triggering for many...

Radical Flexibility

In Distinktion, Journal of Social Theory, in November I finally published "Radical Flexibility: driving for Lyft and the future of work...

Strategic Audio

At The Los Angeles Review of Books, I was part of a team of editors working on cluster of essays about developments in streaming media....

#vanlife road trip

We rented a van and went on an epic road trip to the Grand Canyon, Moab desert, Arches National Park, the four corners area, Colorado...

Trust Me: A visit from Bob Woodward

I was part of a fantastic seminar at last March's ACLA, entitled "Consensus in Fragments: Literature, Normativity, and Social Trust after...

New Directions in Print Culture

I'm excited to be part of a collection coming out soon from Bloomsbury, called New Directions in Print Culture Studies: Archives,...

Beyond The Routledge

"What might the field look like if it were to topple, or at least more thoroughly scrutinize, the reception of the realist novel as the...

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