A meditation on labor, love, and the inheritance of silence across generations.
A conversation about resisting narrative convention and finding form through resistance.
On the tyranny of output metrics, the value of wasted time, and what we lose when we optimize everything.
I'm a writer and journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. My essays and reporting focus on the overlooked corners of American life — the places and people that resist easy narrative. I'm interested in memory, place, and the way ordinary lives accumulate meaning.
Author of Between the Lines (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023)
Published in: The Atlantic · Harper's Magazine · The New Yorker · n+1 · The Paris Review · Guernica · Literary Hub · Longreads · The Rumpus
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