About
I’m a writer, editor, designer, and creative director.
I co-founded The Morning News in 1999—a newsletter that became a blog, became an online magazine, and somehow became a newsletter again—and the Tournament of Books, an annual literary competition that has pitted novels against each other in bracket form since 2005. The Tournament has been featured in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Economist, NPR’s Fresh Air, and elsewhere.
I also wrote the Albums of the Year column at TMN for many years and have given talks on online storytelling at the New School, the School for Visual Arts, and South by Southwest, as well as on a trio of David Bowie albums—The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, Low, and Hunky Dory—at Monmouth University.
I now write this newsletter, a probably-too-frequent (or infrequent, depending) accounting of new music, most of it experimental (or so I’m told), all of it worth your time (or so I think). I live in Austin, Texas.