As a columnist for the “Short Takes” section of the Los Angeles Review of Books, I reported on arts and culture events in the greater LA area. I covered everything from musicals to museum exhibitions to goth clubs to county fairs.
I Had the Time of My Afterlife
Cookbook for the Recently Deceased
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Criticism
Review of the OCMA’s 2025 California Biennial (Artillery)
Review of The Abstract Future at Jeffrey Deitch (Artillery)
Review of Lee Friedlander at Castle (Artillery)
Review of Jordan Rountree at Baert Gallery (Artillery)
Review of David Hammons at Hauser & Wirth (Artillery)
Review of Yorgos Lanthimos at Webber Gallery (Artillery)
Review of Hailey Heaton at Authorized Dealer (Artillery)
Review of Jaxon Demme and Paz de la Huerta at Spy Projects (Artillery)
Review of “a field once more” at Melrose Botanical Garden (Artillery)
Review of “My Soul is Full of Barking Dogs” at Gattopardo (Artillery)
Sweet Emptiness: On Nicolette Polek’s Bitter Water Opera (Los Angeles Review of Books)
Notes on Molly: When Love Resists Interpretation (The Hobbyhorse)
Blood: Medieval/Modern at the Getty Museum (Contemporary Art Review of Los Angeles)
The First Critical Essay Concerning One Ayesha Erotica (Passion of the Weiss)
Reporting
Interviews
Author Ben Fama on If I Close My Eyes (Document Journal)
Author and filmmaker Anna Biller on Bluebeard’s Castle (The Hobbyhorse)
Author Alex Kazemi on New Millennium Boyz (V Magazine)
Author Cristine Brache on Goodnight Sweet Thing (Coveteur)
Playwright and director Siena Foster-Soltis on Fear of Kathy Acker (The Creative Independent)
Author Lauren Cook on Sex Goblin (The Creative Independent)
Dan of “Long Lost Personals” on the history of the personal ad (Juicy Pink Box)
Author and filmmaker Peter Vack on Sillyboy (LA Review of Books)
Author and recipe curator Karla T. Vasquez on The SalviSoul Cookbook (The Latinx Project)
Author Nathan Dragon on The Champ Is Here (The Creative Independent)
Writer and art critic Emmalea Russo on Vivienne (The Creative Independent)
Author and performer Brittany Newell on Soft Core (LA Review of Books)
Immersive theater director Ashley Brett Chipman on The Death of Rasputin (The Creative Independent)