Writing

Selected works in order by publication; for additional clips or a full resume, please get in touch.

Atlanta
• Over the Big Top: World’s tallest circus camper takes on the tightrope - essay, March 2011

Design*Sponge (full archive)
• Sights & Sounds: Superchunk - interview, January 2011
• Sights & Sounds: Carson Ellis and The Decemberists - interview, November 2010
• Sights & Sounds: Scott Avett - interview, November 2010

eMusic (full archive)
• Q&A: Andrew Bird - interview, March 2012
• Six Degrees of Wildwood by Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis - feature, September 2011
• Who Is…Lia Ices - interview, January 2011
• Q&A: Iron & Wine - interview, January 2011

The Oxford American
• Singles Girls: The Rise of Female Rock Writing - book review, December 2011
• Phosphorescent: An Ode to Displacement - feature, December 2010

The Paris Review Daily Blog (full archive)
• Other Peoples’ Churches - essay, October 2011
• O Pioneers! - essay, August 2011
• Here with the Windies - essay, June 2011
• The Christmas House - essay, December 2010

Paste (full archive)
• Laura Veirs, July Flame - review, December 2009 (finalist, along with this and this, for a 2010 National Magazine Award in Reviews & Criticism)
• Dummies in the Attic: Airing out the Legacy of Joel Chandler Harris - feature, July 2008 (winner, Magazine Association of the Southeast’s 2009 Silver GAMMA award for Best Feature)
• Listen Up - weekly music column, October 2009 through August 2010
• Is Indie Dead? -  cover story (plus an extended response), February 2010
• The Decemberists: Dorks of Hazard - cover story, May 2009

Pitchfork (full archive)
• Gentleman Jesse, Leaving Atlanta - review, March 2012
• First Aid Kit, The Lion’s Roar - review, January 2012
• Various Artists, Norman OST - review, October 2011

Salon
• Paste magazine: Inside the death of a music indie - essay, September 2010

Thought Catalog (full archive)
• My First Love Was A Lion Tamer - essay, October 2010
• Brooke vs. The Goonies - interview, October 2010
• The Last Story I Filed Before Losing My Job At A Music Magazine - essay, September 2010

Vulture (full archive)
• The Vulture Transcript: An In-Depth Chat With the Candidly Funny Throwback Crooner Nellie McKay - interview, October 2010
• Sitcom Soul Mates Ellie Kemper and Aubrey Plaza Reminisce About Ill-Advised Bus-Station Sandwiches (and Other Things) - interview, October 2010

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