Selected writings
Vanity Fair
“Ghosts in the Machine” (soundtracks in the streaming era), Hollywood issue 2021
“The Most Influential Pop-Rock Band Ever? The Monkees!” August 19, 2021 (vanityfair.com)
“House of Dreams” (Stahl House), July/August 2021
“Intelligent Design” (Yves Béhar), April 2021
“Remembering Peter Beard,” April 22, 2020 (vanityfair.com)
“How Rudi Gernreich, Fashion’s Utopian Prophet, Saw the Future,” May 3, 2019 (vanityfair.com)
“Conran Country” (Terence Conran), May 2019
“Secrets of the Chateau Marmont,” Hollywood issue 2019
“Andy’s Meal Ticket” (Warhol soup-can paintings), December 2018
“The March of Jo” (Louisa May Alcott and Little Women), October 2018
“Grand Pop” (Ed Ruscha), Summer 2018
“Sister Act” (photographers Gisela Getty and Jutta Winkelmann), May 2018
“Performance Artist” (James McMullan), December 2017
“Where the Wyeth Things Are” (Jamie Wyeth), August 2014
The New Yorker
“Dept. of Versifying: Memoranda,” May 18, 2020
“Dennis Hopper’s Quiet Vision of Nineteen-Sixties Hollywood,” December 22, 2019
The New York Times Sunday Magazine
“Fever Dream” (Nik Cohn), December 4, 2011
“The Beatles on the Beach” (Astrid Kirchherr photography), September 4, 2011
T: The New York Times Style Magazine
“How This Half Lives” (Todd Selby and Apartamento), Spring 2010
“Hammer Time” (Yestermorrow design-build school), Fall 2009
The Los Angeles Times
“Architect Dion Neutra, who fought to save his father’s iconic buildings, dies,” November 25, 2019
“T. C. Boyle Discusses The Women,” February 8, 2009
“California Dreaming” (Laurel Canyon), May 7, 2006
“Whitman and War—a poet among the soldiers” (Memoranda during the War), March 13, 2005
“Who Chooses History?” (Richard Neutra at Gettysburg), June 27, 2004
"Stone Solid Satisfaction" (The Rolling Stones' According to the Rolling Stones), December 21, 2003
“This Is Nostalgia” (Miroslav Sasek), August 17, 2003
“The Height of Nonsense” (Edward Lear), January 5, 2003
“The President’s Analyst” (Robert Caro), April 29, 2002
“Who’s English Now?” (Zadie Smith’s White Teeth), May 7, 2000
Air Mail
“She’s Got the Art World Sewn Up” (Lucy Sparrow), January 15, 2022
“Hollywood’s Kitchen Table” (Dan Tana’s), September 4, 2021
“A Walk on the Wild Side” (Edward St. Aubyn’s Double Blind), June 5, 2021
“Sonic Boom” (music catalogue acquisitions), April 24, 2021
“His Way” (the making of “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold”), January 2, 2021
“Call of the Wild” (Tom Kundig), June 13, 2020
“Miracle on Gansevoort Street” (Keith McNally), August 10, 2019
Esquire
“Form Follows Freedom” (Wendell Castle), Fall 2017
Architectural Digest
“New York Story” (Liev Schreiber and Ashe+Leandro), June 2018
The Oxford American
“It Isn’t Even a Record” (Big Star’s Third/Sister Lovers), Summer Music Issue 2006
“Waltz Across Memphis” (Chris Bell), Summer Music Issue 2003