In addition to my photo-text projects and collaborations, I’ve written for a range of books and magazines over the years. Here are links to some pieces:
Andy Richter’s Neighbourhood (Trigger): Essay for an online exhibition of photographs by Minnesota photographer Andy Richter
Pandemic Journal (New York Review of Books): “By the end of the day, I didn’t want to help make things feel normal anymore. I wanted people to feel how strange things had become. Feigning normal felt dangerous.”
Breakfast (Rizzoli, 2015): A cookbook I wrote about my (then) favorite part of the day. (with Evan Hanczor)
Last Night This Morning (Lucky Peach): For the late, lamented Lucky Peach, an essay on my family’s history with breakfast and why I felt good feeding my child cold pizza to start her day.
Closing the Loop (Edible Brooklyn): “There, 10 feet below the surface of the road, was a grim river that carried all the waste from our block, from Bedford Avenue, from who knows where. It rippled below us all day and all night, carrying garbage disposal puree, the Wesson oil you spilled in the sink, the latex paint you washed out of your brush, suds from your Kiehls, and everything you sent down the drain. It was the effluvia of a dozen restaurants, every corner deli, dry cleaners, nail salons and hundreds of apartments. It was like having 10,000 secrets exposed to you at once.”
On (and Off, and On Again) the Wagon (Edible Brooklyn): “It has a jarring effect on conversation, like turning on the houselights in the middle of a play. Sometimes it ends the conversation altogether.”
New York Diaries (Modern Library, 2012): included in a compilation of diary writing by New Yorkers from. 1609 to 2009. My contribution to this book was singled out in the New York Times by Dwight Garner, who praised it while calling me “a relative nobody.”