ESSAYS

“Geriatric Gen X: A Manifesto”
Oldster
April 14, 2026

Past Ten
February 3, 2025

“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

Essay in The First Time I Heard Kate Bush,
Scott Heim, ed., Rosecliff Press
2012

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

“What’s It All About,”
Post Road, No. 9
Fall/Winter 2004