Selected Clips
Short Stories
- "The Curtain Is Patterned Gingham," The Paris Review
- "The Photo Booth," Electric Lit
- "Sanchez Day," McSweeney's
- "Scrabble," The Iowa Review
- "Swiss Summer," Electric Lit
- "My Fellow Americans," Guernica
- "Election," Guernica
- "The Showcase Court," ZYZZYVA
- "The Better Future Project," ZYZZYVA
- "Tiny," The Metropolitan Review
- "Heavy Lifting," Narrative Magazine
- “Lake High,” Harvard Review
- “I Sense Much Fear In You There In the Batter’s Box,” Harvard Review
- “To Live in the Present Moment Is a Miracle,” Harvard Review
- “Burn for Trans-Earth Injection,” Works Progress
- "Vincent and Aurora," Five Chapters
- "Lifehack at Bar Kaminuk," from the anthology Watchlist, published by OR Books
Journalism and Essays
- “The Absurd, Unending Quest to Floodproof the New York City Subway," The New York Times Magazine
-on the current era of heavy rain, and how a transit system with 47,000 openings is bound to leak
- “The Vanishing of Rafael Rubio," City & State Magazine
-cover story on the detention of a New York City Council staffer, and first in a series on Rubio's ordeal
- “‘A Politics of No Translation.’ Zohran Mamdani on His Unlikely Rise," TIME Magazine
-cover story on the emergence of Zohran Mamdani
- “The New Court Tactic Helping ICE Deport Immigrants," New York Magazine
-inside the deportation efforts at 26 Federal Plaza
- “A Mother Took Her Sons to an ICE Check-In. She Never Saw Them Again," New York Magazine
-on the new immigration enforcement during the second Trump administration
- “New York’s Election System Isn’t Chaotic. It’s Democracy Done Right," The New Republic
-on ranked choice voting and the New York election system experiment
- “The Democrats Are Losing the Social Media Wars. This Young Socialist Is Changing That." Politico Magazine
-on Zohran Mamdani's run for New York City mayor
- “Will There Ever Be Another “Great Gatsby”?" The Nation
-on 100 years of Gatsby
- “DHS Told Him to Leave the U.S. Immediately — He’s Been a Citizen Since Age 8," Documented
-on an unreported aspect of Trump's deportation campaign
- “On Patrol With the Rat Czar," New York Magazine
-on Eric Adams's rat killer and the rodents of NYC
- “Will NYC Churches Be Sanctuaries Under Trump?" Documented
-on the present and future of the sanctuary movement during Trump's second term
- “Jerry Nadler Would Like 10 More Years," New York Magazine
-on the longest serving and oldest member of the NY delegation
- “George Santos Is More Dangerous Than You Know," The New York Times
-on Rep. Santos's dangerous habit of "just throwing ideas"
- “Adams Scandal Exposes Potential Flaws in NYC’s Campaign Finance System," New York Focus
-on the campaign finance loopholes exploited by Eric Adams and other New York politicians
- “The Call Center Where George Santos Learned to Con," New York Magazine
-on the Queens call center where the fabulist got his start
- “Stumped,” The Drift
-reviewing all the books by 2024 GOP presidential contenders
- “The Unvarnished Story of George Santos and His Mother," Vanity Fair
-on the complicated relationship between Santos and his mother
- “Nassau County Is Replacing George Santos — And Maybe Picking the Next President," Politico Magazine
-on the campaign trail in the once and future bellwether county
- “How AOC Got George Santos Into Politics," Politico Magazine
-on the bilingual millennial outsiders from New York
- “The Department of Education, Formerly the Board of Education, Is Actually ‘NYC Public Schools’—For Now," Hell Gate
-some fun FOILing in DOE world
- “Gianni Rodari’s Better Living Through Nonsense," Kirkus
-an interview with the translator of the iconic Italian author
- Newsday columnist page
-Columns on New York people and policy, from mayoral report cards to Long Island jails to elder guardians of NYCHA
- Puerto Rico and NYC: a Hurricane Maria series, Newsday and amNY
-a months-long recurring series including dispatches from rural Puerto Rico, a newly electrified San Juan, and the relief centers and hotels in NYC where Puerto Ricans sought shelter
- “Autumn in the COVID-19 ICU," Newsday
-on fatigued nurses and doctors, desperately ill patients, and the scene in New York COVID ICUs
- “Beyond Broken Windows," The Atlantic
-on NYPD Transit Chief Joseph Fox, Jane Jacobs, and NYC policing
- “How to Sell Short Stories," New York Observer
-on fathers, pre-orders, and Vinnys' fried Calamari
- “Olympia by the Sea," The Paris Review Daily
-on Charles Downing Lay, Robert Moses, and the dashed ambitions of Marine Park
- “In the Ninth,” The Paris Review Daily
-on Alex Rodriguez and the Yankees
- “Bergtraum v. Beacon,” The Paris Review Daily
-on Hurricane Sandy, high school baseball, and Manny Ramirez hitting a ball to the Manhattan Bridge
- “Bill de Blasio’s retirement,” The Drift
-reviewing the mayor's post-mayoralty
- “New York’s 10th Congressional District,” The Drift
-panning an anticlimactic primary season
- “Homage to Homage,” Tin House
-on Hemingway, Julian Barnes, and writing about place
- "Brooklyn is so over," Salon-on the way we talk about baseball, BK and book publishing
- "Amid NFL Scandals, A Novel About America's Love Of The Sport," NPR-on football and Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
- “A Nice Place on the Other Side of the Street,” The Huffington Post
-on Orwell, manliness, and finding a restaurant in Barcelona
- “The Climate Trials of Salem,” The Brooklyn Quarterly
-on global warming, natural gas protests, and witch statues in Salem, Mass.
- “Tom Outland Goes to Washington,” The Utopian
-on government dysfunction and Willa Cather