Sample the Work
Selected Essays
“Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ ‘Heads Will Roll’ and the Monsters of Influence” (March Danceness Tournament, 2024)
“Fantasia on the Dance Floor: Limahl and Miracles of ‘The Neverending Story‘” (March Fadness Tournament, 2023)
“Notes on ‘E.T.,’ now that we are both in our 40s”
“There Are Many Atlantic Cities, and One Belongs to Levon Helm” (March Faxness Tournament, 2022)
“Married at 15, or How he met my mother”
“Greetings from Tatooine, Arizona”
Food and Spirits Writing
The Oracle Pour: A Salon column about cocktails, mindfulness, and life. Ask the Oracle: “What should I drink today?”
“Order the green milk at Disneyland’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge — it tastes better than nostalgia”
“A vegetarian goes to Transylvania: The case for breaking meat rules on vacation”
“Bar fight: In Puerto Rico, elite bartenders rum-ble in a cocktail mix-off”
Podcasting
These Miracles Work: A Hold Steady Podcast, by Sean Cannon and Erin Keane
In 2008, The Hold Steady released the seminal album “Stay Positive.” This is the story of that record, how things changed for the band, and how they recaptured that magic 10 years later.
Selected poems:
“When I Tell You the Taco Bell Is Haunted Now,” HAD
“Brewing Kombucha In Your Home Kitchen,” Still
“The Living Dead,” The Collagist
“A Supermarket in New Jersey,” “Las Meninas,” and “Decomposition Studies,” Pinwheel
“Derby Day Rites,” Velocity
Arts and Culture Writing