the parkhives
featured work
recent work
- All the President’s Women (on the rediscovery of Robert Plunket), Bookforum
- Deprivation Exercises (on Agóta Kristóf), The New York Review of Books
- 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
- Pale Ink: Commonplace Books and the Illusions of Memory, Lapham’s Quarterly
a few fictions
- Easter Promenade, Bennington Review
- Seven Women, Pioneer Works Broadcast
- The Wife on Ambien, The New Yorker
- Two Laptops, Columbia
- Slide to Unlock, The New Yorker
- Thought and Memory, Vice
jeux d'esprit
- Typo Analysis (on The Chicago Manual of Style), Bookforum
- I’m Starting To Realize I’m Watching The Bear (1988) Not The Bear (2022), McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
- Masters of Fine Arts: The Novel, The New Yorker
- Partial Magic in Pat the Bunny, The Believer
- The Twins, HiLoBrow
- 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
- Little Rock Lit, The Village Voice
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
- A Poet’s Eye View (on Yi Sang), The New York Review of Books
- Like No One They’d Ever Seen (on Younghill Kang), The New York Review of Books
- Confronting Anti-Asian Discrimination During the Coronavirus Crisis, The New Yorker
- The Oblique Case (a note on Harry Stephen Keeler’s Y. Cheung, Business Detective), Keeler News
- The Labyrinth and the Plague (on ’70s science-fiction films), The Criterion Collection
- Chinese Whispers, The Village Voice
- The Family Plot, The Village Voice