“The Soothing Futility of Picking Up Beach Trash,” the New York Times
“Will Donald Trump Go the Way of Paul LePage?” the Boston Globe
“The Next Netflix Should Be Owned By Screenwriters,” Noema
“I’m On Strike With the W.G.A. I Owe My Father at Least That Much,” the New York Times
“Why Reading is Essential to Making Sense of Trump’s America,” the Chicago Tribune
“An Open Letter to My Fellow Liberals,” The Weeklings
“Dismiss Kurt Vonnegut’s Modest, Winking Profundity at Your Peril,” Library of America Influences
“My Intractable, Gun-Loving, Anti-Government, Right-Wing Cousin (Who I Like a Lot),” Down East
“Max Apple: A Sweet, Never Tart Writers’ Writer,” the Chicago Tribune
“A Partial List of Genera Native to 21st Century North American Coffee Shops,” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
“Last Summer in the Magic City,” Down East
“All I Wanna Do is Make Love to You: Breaking Down the 80s’ Silliest Song,” Salon
“Cross Your Fingers God Bless,” Wigleaf
"The Captain," Smokelong Quarterly
“Conversations With Various Time Warner Cable Service Reps, 8 pm to 3 am,” Monkeybicycle
“HOBO: Authentic Jeans for the New American,” Tin House
Portland Press Herald, 2/17
Hobart, 2/13
Talk Shop, 1/16
With Ben Gibbard at the Strand in NYC, 1/13