selected clips (the proverbial greatest hits album, if you will)
the vibe shift | bed crumbs | January 2025
It’s Always Winter in Reds | Bright Wall/Dark Room | December 2024
An Audrey Girl: On Audrey Hepburn, Girlhood, and the Fantasies of Sabrina and Breakfast at Tiffany’s | Bright Wall/DarkRoom | September 2023
Am I The Drama?: Notes on Fleetwood Mac on Film | Bright Wall/Dark Room | May 2022
sad songs: on aimee mann and queens of the summer hotel | bed crumbs | November 2021
Liz Phair on the Long Journey From “Guyville” to “Soberish” | Flood Magazine | June 2021
Margo Price Can’t Be Boxed In | Vinyl Me Please | July 2020
We’re Playing Space Explorers: On Judy Berlin and Madeline Kahn | Bright Wall/Dark Room | June 2020
I’m Like History Passing By: An Interview With Lee Grant | Bright Wall/Dark Room | December 2019
Kim Gordon’s Ready to See You Now | Garage Magazine | October 2019
Jessica Lange’s Highway 61 Explores America the Beautiful, Lonely, and Fading | Flood Magazine | October 2019
Elaine May Made Movies About Men, But Difficult Women Dominate Her Stage | Bright Wall/Dark Room | September 2019
How The Elusive ‘Buckingham Nicks’ Established Stevie Nicks’ Songwriting Voice | NPR Music | January 2018
select bed crumbs pieces (subscribe and read the full archive here)
a famine of beauty: on robert redford | september 2025
august is the sunday of months | august 2025
hate gave you me for a lover: on buckingham nicks | july 2025
my sister’s wedding nearly turned me into the worst version of myself | may 2025
faces | october 2024
not another goodbye to all that-ass essay | august 2024
someone else is going to buy the house i am supposed to live in and i am very upset about it | november 2023
they put a panera in the margaret (2011) victoria’s secret | october 2023
listening to joy’all at the end of the world | june 2023
back to the velvet underground: on stevie nicks, “gypsy,” and ghosts | may 2023
give nancy meyers her money | march 2023
we need to talk about the warren beatty dick tracy zoom tcm special | february 2023
every thought i had while watching 80 For Brady | february 2023
thoughts you have on big walks through central park while listening to nora ephron audiobooks | august 2021
nice things | december 2020
there is a girl in new york city who calls herself the human trampoline | July 2020
thoughts you have on trains in and around new york about the impending (gradual or sudden) end of the world | September 2019
select audio
host and writer, Consequence of Sound’s The Opus podcast, Season 3: Jeff Buckley’s Grace | episode 1 | episode 2 | episode 3 | 2019
co-host, co-writer, producer, and editor, ’77 Music Club | all episodes here | 2017 – 2019
podcast guest appearances live here
profiles & interviews
An Interview With Emma Swift | bed crumbs | August 2020
Director Hirokazu Kore-eda on Border-Crossing with The Truth | Flood Magazine | July 2020
Why We Can’t Get Enough of Hoaxes and Cons | Vanity Fair | November 2019
Decades Later, the World Is Catching Up to Elaine May | Glamour Magazine | November 2019
Alma Har’el on the Therapeutic Nature of Honey Boy | Flood Magazine | October 2019
How Schitt’s Creek turned Catherine O’Hara into a couture queen | Garage Magazine | April 2019
Stephen Malkmus Learns New Tricks on Groove Denied | Flood Magazine | March 2019
Snail Mail Grows Up | Flood Magazine | June 2018
Nashville-Based Singer-Songwriter Tristen Talks New Album Sneaker Waves | Guitar World | April 2018 (June 2018 print issue)
film, television, and pop culture criticism
On Wednesdays We Wear Pink: Notes on Mean Girls | April 2025
It’s Delightful, It’s Delicious, It’s De-Lovely: Peter Bogdanovich’s At Long Last Love | Bright Wall/Dark Room | October 2024
The People We Used to Be: On Sneakers and Being Young and Dumb | Bright Wall/Dark Room | August 2023
The Best Actress in the World: Jane Fonda, Klute, and the Nature of Performance | Bright Wall/Dark Room | May 2021
The Best Version of Itself: Nora Ephron’s New York in When Harry Met Sally… | Bright Wall/Dark Room | December 2020
The Best Films of 2020 (blurb for #6 — Shirley) | Flood Magazine | December 2020
The Best TV of 2020 (blurb for #10 — High Fidelity) | Flood Magazine | December 2020
Burn It Down: Rewatching Enlightened as Corporate America Melts Down | Bright Wall/Dark Room | October 2020
“Do I Look Like I Don’t Belong Here?” Working Girl and the Secrets of Class Politics | Bright Wall/Dark Room | May 2020
Trash, Art, and Book Club: A Toast to Our Aging Icons | Bright Wall/Dark Room | February 2020
music criticism
The 150 Best Albums of the 1990s (blurb for Whatever by Aimee Mann) | Pitchfork | September 2022
The Best Songs of 2020 (blurb for “Shameika” by Fiona Apple) | Flood Magazine | December 2020
The Best Songs of 2019 (blurb for “Heads Gonna Roll” by Jenny Lewis) | Flood Magazine | December 2019
The Best Albums of 2019 (blurbs for Better Oblivion Community Center s/t and Norman Fucking Rockwell by Lana Del Rey) | Flood Magazine | December 2019
Liz Phair: The Poptimist | Go All The Way: A Literary Appreciation of Power Pop (ed. Paul Myers and SW Lauden, Rare Bird Books) | November 2019
and i would ask for you to consider the fact that your icons were not always icons (video; on Buckingham Nicks) | transcript | Words & Guitars reading series | April 2019
Jenny Lewis’s On The Line is a dogged fight to move forward | bed crumbs | March 2019
A Brief History of Women-Led Supergroups | Pitchfork | October 2018
At Twenty-Five, Bikini Kill’s Pussy Whipped Reminds Us We Still Have a Right to be Hostile | Flood Magazine | October 2018
40 Years Later, Talking Heads’ Most Valuable Member Tina Weymouth Is Still Its Most Under-Recognized | Paper Magazine | September 2017
Taylor Swift’s fight against Big Music doesn’t make her a champion of the creative class | Quartz | August 2015
selected music press and bio writing
Amy Irving – Always Will Be (2025)
Lucette – Nice Girl From The Suburbs (2025)
Mama Zu (Jessi Zazu and Linwood Regensburg of Those Darlins) – Quilt Floor (2024)
Wolfie’s Just Fine – Everyone is Dead Except Us (2023)
Mary Lee Kortes – Will Anybody Know That I Was Here (2023)
Caitlin Rose – Cazimi (2022)
Tristen – Aquatic Flowers (2021)
Vanessa Carlton – Love is an Art (2020) (1, 2)
Tristen – “A Case of You” (2019)
Tristen – “Dream Within a Dream” (2019)