These are some of my favorite articles. Some of them I like because of what they are saying, some for how they are saying it, some for both, and some I can’t always remember why. But if you are interested in writing for public audiences, I think they are worth checking out.
“Seeing the University More Clearly” by David Pozen (LPE Project & Balkanization, 05/07/2024)
“Arachnophobia” (Review of Spiderland by Slint) by Steve Albini (Melody Maker, 1991)
“Tell Me Why It Hurts” by Danielle Carr (Intelligencer, New York Magazine, 07/31/2023)
“With Hannah Gadsby’s ‘It’s Pablo-matic,’ the Joke’s on the Brooklyn Museum” by Jason Farago (New York Times, 06/01/2023)
“Donald Rumsfeld Saved from Drowning” by Patrick Barrett (Guernica, 07/7/2022)
“Everyone is Beautiful and No One is Horny” by RS Benedict (Blood Knife, 02/14/2021)
“The Trash Heap Has Spoken” by Carmen Maria Machado (Guernica, 02/13/2017)
“Dilbert: A Reckoning” by Miles Wray (The Awl, 12/12/2017)
“All the Presidents’ Librarians” by Michael Koncewicz (Contingent Magazine, 07/19/2019)
“I’m Still Here” by Clancy Martin (Huffington Post in collaboration with Epic Magazine, 12/12/2018)
“My 14-Hour Search for the End of TGI Friday’s Endless Appetizers” by Caity Weaver (Gawker, 07/18/2014)
“We’ve Entered the Era of the Large Adult Meatball” by Jaya Saxena (Eater, 05/16/2019)
“Psycho Analysis,” a review of Brett Easton Ellis’ “White,” by Andrea Long Chu (Bookforum, 05/2019)
“The Future of the Culture Wars is Here, And It’s Gamergate” by Kyle Wager (Deadspin, 10/14/14)