Selected Work

CRITICISM

“Come Sale Away: Bridget Read’s Little Bosses Everywhere” (Bookforum, Summer 2025)

“A Hedge-Fund Founder’s Obsessive Storytelling: on Ray Dalio and Rob Copeland’s The Fund” (The New Yorker, Nov. 2023)

“Going Viral: Taylor Lorenz’s history of social media and the digital celebrity” (The Nation, Nov. 2023)

“Commit to the Bit: An actor and a journalist chronicle the crypto crash” (Bookforum, Aug. 2023)

“The Muddled Feminism of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie” (The Nation, July 2023)

“Sticky Fictions: Kerry Howley’s nuanced portraits of whistleblowers and other deep-state dissidents”  (Bookforum, Dec. 2022)

“‘When McKinsey Comes to Town’ Should Have Named Names” (Gawker, Oct. 2022)

“The Problem With New York Mag’s ‘Canceled Teen’” (Gawker, June 2022)

“Norm Macdonald Left Nothing on the Table” (Gawker, May 2022)

“I Did Not Have ‘High Hopes’ for ‘Mayor Pete’” (Gawker, Nov. 2021)

On Andrea Dworkin: Last Days at Hot Slit (The Daily Beast, Mar. 2019)

REPORTING

“America’s Son: Who’s Afraid of Hunter Biden?” (The Drift, Sept. 2022)

“How Florida Became the Frontlines of ‘America First’” (Deseret, April 2022)

“The Schism at the Writers Guild” (Gawker, Aug. 2021)

“The Mysterious Horse Deaths that Exposed Horse Racing’s Brutal Underbelly” (The Daily Beast, Jan. 2020).

“Celebration, Florida: How Disney’s ‘Community of Tomorrow’ Became a Total Nightmare” (The Daily Beast, December 2019)

“Utah Town Once Run By Polygamist Leader Warren Jeffs Exorcizes Its Ghosts” (The Daily Beast, Jan. 2019)

“Andrew Pollack is the Parkland Massacre’s Conservative Face” (Miami New Times, July 2018)

“The Real Story of Rapper XXXTentacion” (Miami New Times, May 2018)

BLOGS

“‘Then Things Went Bad’: How I Made $264 at Preakness” (The Paris Review, June 2023)

“Scabby the Rat is an American Labor icon. Why are his manufacturers disowning him?” (The Guardian, March 2023) 

“Sequoia Capital: Back in the Doomsday Spirit” (The Drift, Feb. 2023)

“CPAC Was the Worst Stand-Up Show I’ve Ever Been To” (Gawker, Feb. 2022)

“The Libertarian Who Supposedly Coined ‘Quiet Quitting’” (Gawker, Oct. 2022)

“The Cut Confronts its Spon-Con Standards” (Gawker, March 2022)

“Letter of Recommendation: Court Documents” (The New York Times, Dec. 2020)

“Remembering Chris Gaines, Garth Brooks’ Bizarre ’90s Alter Ego” (The Daily Beast, July 2019)

INTERVIEWS

“An Interview with RXKNephew, One of the Internet’s Strangest Rappers” (Gawker, Jan. 2023)

“My Strange Call With ‘My Son Hunter’ Director Robert Davi” (Gawker, Nov. 2022)

“A Very Weird Interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.” (Gawker, Dec. 2021)

“Bustle CEO Bryan Goldberg Bought Napoleon’s Hat” (Gawker, Nov. 2021)

“How Much Money Do You Have: Gene Simmons” (Gawker, Oct. 2021)

“Meet Brock Pierce, Crypto Presidential Candidate” (The Daily Beast, 2020)

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You can find a more complete list of blogs, essays, and reporting on my author pages at Gawker and The Daily Beast.