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'Water Over Thunder: Selected Writings' by Larry Sultan [Book launch] – MACK

The Emotional Saturation of William Eggleston’s “Last Dyes” | Aperture

Rewriting Love Underneath the Hollywood Sign | Vogue

Sally Mann’s At Twelve, in a Dozen Reflections | Aperture

Ways to Help Western North Carolina Recover from Helene

A Story for Leonard Peltier: From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock to New York, Guided By a Sacred Drum

David Lynch and the Making of Blue Velvet (Vogue, 2016)

Donate to Hostetter Altadena Fires Community Fund for direct support, organized by Trenton Wolbe

Oxford American Memphis music issue: on the sound of music in Hawkins Bolden's sculptures

A new short piece in Understory, a digital zine raising funds for western NC

Out of the Blue’s Teenage Wasteland, an essay for Criterion Current

Ways to Help Western North Carolina — an evolving list

List: Ways to donate and help flood victims in Western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene

Will the Real Mr. Heartache Please Stand Up and Cry?: on David Berman and Johnny Paycheck

My Art of Fiction interview with Mary Robison in the Summer 2024 issue of The Paris Review

Read my short story Blood Harmony in full, published in Southern Cultures' Gothic South issue

Artists and Writers Respond to LaToya Ruby Frazier's Self-Portraits, by Zora J Murff, Zoe Leonard, and me

A new interview with me in Lunate journal by Connor Harrison

"On New Year's Day in Los Angeles": a new, sorta noir story by me in Ryan Spencer's new photobook from TBW Books

Gothic South issue of Southern Cultures featuring my story Blood Harmony, photographs by Kristine Potter, an interview with Jesmyn Ward (!) +++ (30% off print issue w/code 01SC30 at checkout)

A Strange Hours Interview for Photo-Eye Books

"Self Portrait in Other People's Pictures" in Our Favorite Lit Hub Stories from 2023

Photobooks of 2023: Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb on Strange Hours and Dark Waters

From the summer: Strange Hours reviewed in Vanity Fair by Madison Reid

Strange Hours + yours truly on the Selection Committee Radio Show (w/host Nate Heiges) is archived on Spotify. Listen to "Margaritas at the Mall" from 7/23/23

Strange Hours reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail's October issue by Alyse Burnside

Strange Hours in Cultured's "The 8 New Art Books Everyone Will Be Talking About This Fall"

"I Don't Like to Know the End": Talking With the Writer Rebecca Bengal - by Sarah Edwards in INDY Week

Self-Portrait in Other People’s Pictures: a new first-person essay for Literary Hub

Dead Girl Walking: review of Kristine Potter's DARK WATERS and my short story "Blood Harmony" by Kira von Eichel

STRANGE HOURS reviewed for Vogue by Robert Sullivan

STRANGE HOURS book launch and other events

Cosmic Fishing column from the late 2020 archives: "Refresh the Map" on Jake Skeets' poems, and the time Avedon photographed his uncle

on Desire Paths, an exhibition of works by RaMell Ross and William Christenberry, for Aperture

on Pictures from Home by Larry Sultan, with photographs by Alec Soth, for the New York Times