Essays and Other Nonfiction

“I saw ‘St. Elmo’s Fire’ with my best friend when I was 22. ‘Brats’ took me right back,”
WBUR’s Cognoscenti,
June 21, 2024

“Distiple: An Obsession in Ten Albums,” 
in Idol Talk, Elizabeth Searle and Tamra Wilson, eds.,
McFarland Press, 2018 
Originally published on Elizabeth Searle’s Celebrities in Disgrace blog.

“Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller: The Literary, Music-Loving, Geek Girls of Gilmore,”
in Soap Opera Confidential, Elizabeth Searle and Suzanne Strempek Shea, eds., McFarland Press, 2017

“Rachel Maddow’s Trumped Up Tax Returns Scoop,” 
WBUR’s Cognoscenti,
March 17, 2017

“Making a Murderer and ‘Bad’ Families,” 
The Rumpus,
January 16, 2016

“Enchanted Night” in Don’t You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes,
Jaime Clarke, ed., Simon Spotlight Entertainment,
2007