selected writing
selected writing
nonfiction
Taiwan English (The Paris Review Daily) 2026
GemStone (The Paris Review) 2026
My College Diary (The Paris Review Daily) 2025
Gian (Granta) 2025
My Spiritual Evolution (Granta) 2024
MKULTRA’s Terminal Experiments (Medium) 2024
My Childhood Toy Poodle (The Paris Review Daily) 2024
Antigravity and the Deep State (Substack) 2024
In Praise of Email (New York Magazine) 2024
Jets and Trash (The Paris Review Daily) 2023
The Hongshan Jade Controversy (Countere) 2023
The Story of Autism (Mars Review of Books) 2022
The Purpose of Dreams (Unherd) 2022
New Cosmologies (Document Journal) 2022
The Partnership Before War (Tank) 2021
"Funny Ha Ha" by Andrew Bujalski (DVD booklet) 2017
Final Fantasy III (Granta) 2014
When I Moved Online (New York Times) 2013
iPhone Photos of Taipei (Vice) 2013
Friday (Qarrtsiluni) 2005
book reviews
"I Fear My Pain Interests You" by Stephanie LaCava (New York Times Book Review) 2022
"Nothing" by Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon (New York Times Book Review) 2013
"Honored Guest" by Joy Williams (The Rumpus) 2009
fiction
Jawbreaker’s Major-Label Album 2012
poetry
March 2024 2025
14 Poems 2023
Four-Minute Poem for Mal’s Wedding 2016
i went fishing with my family when i was five 2007
hot amoeba ass 2006
the MFA in hamsters 2006
this emotion was a little e-book 2006
other writing
Book recommendations for Document 2020
Thing recommendations for The Strategist 2018
Book recommendations for The Week 2018
syllabus for my Sarah Lawrence class 2015
presentations/graphs/charts
The Contemporary Short Story 2012
"Kmart Realism" Contextualized 2010