“Running for My Lives”
Memoir Land (June 16, 2023).
“Sweet Release”
The New York Times (online June 1, 2021; in print June 6, 2021).
“The All of ‘Y’all’”
Salon (February 6, 2021).
“Coming Out as Working Class”
The Chronicle of Higher Education (October 25, 2018). Reprinted in Vanderbilt Magazine (Summer 2019). Reprinted as “Why Coming Out as Working Class Was Harder Than Coming Out as Gay” in The Guardian (November 13, 2018).
“The Metropolitan Museum’s Cultural Treasures, Behind a Velvet Rope”
The New York Daily News (May 20, 2018).
“The Handgun and the Haunted Range”
Longreads (January 26, 2018).
“Altitude Sickness in the Upwardly Mobile”
Salon (September 16, 2017).