the parkhives
featured work
Blizzard of ’77
Graywolf Lab
Beautiful Plan of Your Future
The Baffler
Nuance and Nuisance: On The Village Voice
Harper’s Magazine
Ed Park by David Gordon
BOMB Magazine
A Poet’s-Eye View
The New York Review of Books
Like No One They’d Ever Seen
The New York Review of Books
Deprivation Exercises: On Ágota Kristóf
The New York Review of Books
Pale Ink: Commonplace Books and the Illusions of Memory
Lapham’s Quarterly
A Portrait of the Artist as a Droll Slacker
The New Yorker
Fun With Monoliths
Moving Image Source
recent work
- Beautiful Plan of Your Future (on a lost manuscript), The Baffler
- Han Kang’s Transgressive Art, The Atlantic
- Nuance and Nuisance (on The Village Voice), Harper’s
- Fangs for the Memories (on Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing Is Monsters), Bookforum
- All the President’s Women (on the rediscovery of Robert Plunket), Bookforum
- Becoming Enid Coleslaw (on Daniel Clowes), The New York Review of Books
- Xianjiang Has Produced Its James Joyce (on Perhat Tursun), The Atlantic
- The Magic and Melancholy of Dungeons & Dragons, The New Yorker
- Parable of the Butler, Harper’s
a few fictions
- Easter Promenade, Bennington Review
- The Wife on Ambien, The New Yorker
- Two Laptops, Columbia
jeux d'esprit
- On The Who’s “You Better You Bet”
- Typo Analysis (on The Chicago Manual of Style), Bookforum
- Masters of Fine Arts: The Novel, The New Yorker
- Partial Magic in Pat the Bunny, The Believer
- Other Subject Headings in the Susan Sontag Archives, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
- One-Word Review: Hilarious, The New York Times (excerpt from The New-York Ghost)
- The Dark Rockwell, The Believer
- J.D. Salinger, Author of Lolita, Voice Literary Supplement
- Little Rock Lit, The Village Voice
- The Oblique Case (a note on Harry Stephen Keeler’s Y. Cheung, Business Detective), Keeler News
introductions
ye old faves
- Like Cormac McCarthy, But Funny (on Charles Portis), The Believer
- The Enduring Appeal of Dune as an Adolescent Power Fantasy, The New Yorker
- How Squid Game Channels the Anarchic Spirit of the New Korean Cinema, The New Yorker
- Minor Poets, Major Works, The Poetry Foundation
- Through the Looking Glass (on Lee Tandy Schwartzman’s Crippled Detectives and child authors), Voice Literary Supplement
- They Never Forget (on Rachel Ingalls), The Village Voice
- Rated P.G. (on Wodehouse’s letters), Bookforum
- The Outsiders (on Henry Darger), The Village Voice
- Chinese Whispers, The Village Voice
- The Family Plot, The Village Voice