Criticism:
“San Francisco During the Great Food Awakening” [Virginia Quarterly Review, 2015]
“Changing the Game: How Game of Thrones Rewrites the Rules of Modern TV” [Los Angeles Review of Books, 2016]
“Coffee as Existential Statement: A Crisis in Every Cup on Valencia Street” [Los Angeles Review of Books, 2017]
“Bach at the Burger King” [Los Angeles Review of Books, 2018]
“Food on a Mission” [Alta Magazine, 2018]
“The American Menu: A Literary History” [Book Club of California, 2019] [lecture]
“The Sound of Evil” [The American Scholar, 2019]
“Bless Us, O Instagram” [The American Scholar, 2019]
“Midlife Crisis of the American Restaurant Review” [Los Angeles Review of Books, 2019]
“The Great Reformatting” [The American Scholar, 2020]
“Death to the Negative Restaurant Review” [The New Republic, 2021]
“To Expower the People” [Quillette, 2021]
“Straw Ban Arguments” [Tablet Magazine, 2023]
Interviews:
Tejal Rao, California Restaurant Critic at the New York Times [The Believer, 2020]
Deborah Borda, CEO of the LA Philharmonic [The Believer, 2017]
Kate Moross, Designer [It’s Nice That, 2017]
Jurgen Bey, Designer [It’s Nice That, 2017]
Rachel Armstrong, Experimental Architect [It’s Nice That, 2017]
Tea Uglow, Creative Director of Google Creative Labs [It’s Nice That, 2017]
Michael Bierut, Designer and Partner at Pentagram [It’s Nice That, 2017]
Dominique Crenn, Michelin-Star Chef [San Francisco Magazine, 2014]
Audio:
“Villains and Classical Music” on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row [BBC Radio, 2020]