Recent Work

• Clive and Worm in Winter Memoir reflecting a year of crisis abroad. Isolation, transgression, unlikely paths to self-discovery. (Published in Hobart) (2026)
• Emails to Danny Lyrical prose piece, presented as a series of fragmented emails. (Published in The Manifest-Station) (2026)
• Rap and the American Religion The spiritual underpinnings of American evangelicalism are key to understanding the persona, contradictions and power of a major female rapper. (Published in Blind Field: a Journal of Cultural Inquiry) (2025)
• The Philosophy of Dress A troubled designer and her magnetic influencer-muse collaborate on a single dress, but their artistic bond unravels into toxic obsession. Wrote and produced. Feature film starring Sydney Lemmon, Romy Reiner, Jake Weary, Clara McGregor. (Completed November 2025; pursuing festivals and sales representation)
• No Special Place: on having a famous brother Personal essay on memory, digital celebrity, and political idealism, framed by the experience of having a brother who becomes a political influencer. (Published in Blind Field: a Journal of Cultural Inquiry) (2024)
• TIGER TIGER A couple takes an interest in a strange new neighbor, only to find out he’s already taken an interest in them. Surreal short film about babies, tigers, rap, and Connecticut starring Sydney Lemmon and Jonathan Higginbotham. Co-wrote and produced. (Honored at Rooftop Films, New/Next Festival, Cannes Indie Shorts Awards, Moving Pictures Festival, London Director Awards) (2023)

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• Online Ideas: essays Co-author. Collection of essays, co-authored with Hugo Blondel, offering a critical and personal lens on pop culture, politics and theology during the pandemic era. (Published by Nachleben, 2022) “A slower mode of pop cultural critique... These texts place our popular culture in longer histories of intellectual thought.” -- Roland Betancourt, Disneyland and the Rise of Automation
• Group: an anthology Editor. Anthology of images, interviews, poetry and fiction by a group of seven friends. Originally published in weekly volumes throughout 2020. (Published by Nachleben, 2022) “Brims with intensity, warmth, pluck, and wonder... inventive Gen Z housemates tunneling their way to a space of intellectual and aesthetic freedom.”--Peter Cole, poet and MacArthur fellow
• The Pop Reformation A narrative of how three popstars leveraged exclusive streaming releases to assert economic and creative autonomy, echoing the disruptive power of the printing press. (2016) Praised as "smart work" by Dr. Elizabeth Alexander and cited in the Wikipedia entry for D'Angelo. Led to an extended conversation with members of the Roc Nation executive team about branding and narrative.
• 'Joanne', Anti-pop pop and the 2016 Election Parallels between the "anti-establishment" rhetoric in Lady Gaga's musical turn and Donald Trump's presidential campaign. (2016) Included in a select bibliography by the peer-reviewed journal American Music (Vol. 35, No. 4) for its value in teaching public musicology.
• “you have distracted me from my creative process” Column on the birth of Kim and Kanye son and the paradox of modern celebrity—rap and reality TV function as a contentless yet honest theater of  striving. (2017)
• Marilynne Robinson's 'The Givenness of Things' Review of the essay collection. Examines her defense of faith against positivism and the ironies of her mainstream cultural moment. (2015)
• Note on American Pastoral Considers the novel's structure and its relation to the legacy of 1960s. (2014)
• The Migrant's Calling Explores the creative and prophetic power of the exilic figure, from the Abrahamic narrative to the American novel. (2016)
• Two VersionS of the the American Dilemma Compares visions of American culture in Hart Crane's "The Bridge" and Henry James's "The Europeans." (2016)
Select play reviews David Harrower's 'Knives in Hens'; Thornton Wilder's 'Our Town'; Jackie Sibblies Drury's 'Really'; Walker Sampson's 'Slouch'; Steve Martin's 'Picasso at the Lapin Agile'; Anna Deavere Smith’s 'Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992'