ESSAYS
A Filmy Kind of Dread: Georges Simenon and Chantal Akerman (Paris Review Daily)
“In 1934, My Life Snapped” (Slate)
Phil Spector vs. the Wall of Sound (Design Observer, anthologized in Culture Is Not Always Popular: Fifteen Years of Design Observer)
Screen Shots: Worship, Fandom, and the Celebrity Picture (Paris Review Daily)
Taylor’s Multitudes: The Elizabeth Taylor Collection at Christie’s (Paris Review Daily)
What We Wish We Were: On Biopic-Mania (Paris Review Daily)
REVIEWS
Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners by Laura Claridge (Los Angeles Times)
Inferno by Eileen Myles (Bookforum)
Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford by Leslie Brody (Los Angeles Times)
It’s Good to Be the King: The Seriously Funny Life of Mel Brooks by James Robert Parish and Rickles’ Book by Don Rickles with David Ritz (New York Times Book Review)
“Miss Lachrymose,” Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door by David Kaufman (London Review of Books)
Pedigree by Georges Simenon (Los Angeles Times)
Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985 (4Columns)
Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008 by John Leonard (Bookforum)
Role Models by John Waters (Bookforum)
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell (4Columns)
Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit (Bookforum)
Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles by Les Standiford (Los Angeles Times)