the awl

• Now’s Your Chance to Own a Paper Mill
• The Real American Thanksgiving Cookbook: Lentil Loaf
• The Pavlovsk Experimental Station
• So Shellfish! The Great Moon Snail Attack

the billfold

• My Last Hundred Bucks

bundle

• Money Lessons from the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck
• What’s Poor One Month, Rich the Next, and Always Ends Up With $0?
• Other People’s Money: 23-Year-Old Mayor Justin Nickels

buzzfeed

• The Year in Springsteen

comedy central’s indecision

• 13 Things Americans Banned in 2012
• Will We Have a Conversation About Guns?
• Slate Is Wrong About Grapefruit
• Presidential Debate Stripping Game
• One Night in a Field with Sheriff Joe Arpaio
• Neil Barofsky’s “Bailout”: Tim Geithner Is Sweaty, Dismissive
• Super Tuesday Party Guide
• During the 2012 election season I helped make and launch several original short videos. This one is my favorite. Scripted and directed by me, produced via a collaboration with 92Y’s Campaign for the American Conversation. (Specific producer: 92Y’s awesome digital guru Andrew Krucoff).
• There was the time I turned Indecision into a lifestyle magazine. Long story.
• Want more? Here’s my full post archive.

lost magazine

• The Things We Make
• Musicology

mcsweeney’s

• In My Town of Smallish Size and Stature

monkeybicycle

• Pies
• The Kids Next Door

pindeldyboz

• Permanent

proto

• Rita Charon: The Literary Physician
• Damned Spot

yankee pot roast

• Unintended Consequences of Six Oft-Forgotten Tariffs
• Those from Whom No Guff Will Be Brooked