Freelance journalist | Reported features, profiles, narrative nonfiction
I write reported features, profiles, and essays about character, discipline, strength, and what pressure reveals about a life. I’m especially interested in how people test themselves physically to discover human capacities beyond the physical.My work has appeared in The New York Times, New York, Men’s Health, Wine Spectator, The Threepenny Review, AGNI, On Being, and McSweeney's. I’m open to assignments and actively pitching reported features and profiles.
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Men’s Health
Part personal experiment, part expert guide on sexual role-playing: how to broach it, how to build it, and why it works. Reported from the inside, with Ivy, a scarf, and apricot preserves. (Cover story)
New York magazine
A reported feature on the city at dawn: workers finishing shifts, small rituals of exhaustion and release, and the strange fellowship of early morning.
The Threepenny Review
A reported narrative about an attempt to learn long‑haul truck driving on the streets of Manhattan. Anthologized in Table Talk: From The Threepenny Review (Counterpoint Press).
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The New York Times (Opinion)
A wry history of Greenwich Village's resistance to the Manhattan grid: cow paths, yellow fever, and the streets that refused to be numbered.
On Being
On burying a grandfather and confronting death as a physical reality.
AGNI
On a great-grandfather’s late-life return to speaking Italian, and the enduring pull of migration, memory, and hope.
I’m the founding editor of Deadlift Magazine, a forthcoming publication focused on long-form profiles and reported features about self-command, broader notions of strength, and the physical and psychological demands of high-level performance. In building it, I’ve conducted in-depth interviews with elite strength athletes and coaches including Žydrūnas Savickas (four-time World's Strongest Man), Andy Bolton (the first man to deadlift over 1,000 pounds), Eddie Hall, Stefi Cohen, Ben Pollack, Andrey Malanichev, Tamara Walcott, Chris Duffin, Jan Todd, and Bill Kazmaier.Deep interview archive in hand; can deliver quickly on assignment.