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NEW(ISH)

“Reality” (After Trump)
Harper’s

What Sustained Us: Literature
BOMB

“Systems”
The New York Times Magazine

“The Pre-pandemic Universe Was the Fiction”
The Atlantic

PROFILES

Adam Sternbergh for The New York Times

Rob Harvilla for The Ringer

Clark Collis for Entertainment Weekly

INTERVIEWS FOR INTERIOR CHINATOWN

PBS Newshour with Jeffrey Brown

Talks @ Google with Holly Zhou

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

NPR Weekend Edition with Scott Simon

BOMB (with Gabe Hudson)

LARB Radio Hour with Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf

SHORT FICTION

Fable
The New Yorker

Standard Loneliness Package
Lightspeed

Subtext
Wired

Placebo
Wired

Re: microwave in the break room
Motherboard/Vice

Q&As

By the Book (for The New York Times Book Review)

The New Yorker (with Deborah Treisman)

Ploughshares (with J.A. Tyler)

Poets & Writers Ten Questions

New York Times Author Spotlight

The Believer (with Lev Grossman)

NON-FICTION

What It’s Like to Never See Yourself on TV
Time

George R.R. Martin, Fantasy’s Reigning King
T: The New York Times Style Magazine

Buffalo Wild Wings Bar and Grill
The Morning News

What Kind of World Is This?
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

Thirteen Ways of Looking at 45
The Offing

What future AI will think of our puny human video games
Polygon

SOME NYT BOOK REVIEWS I WROTE

Later by Stephen King

Full Throttle by Joe Hill

Fall; Or Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson

Early Riser by Jasper Fforde

Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

The Lost Time Accidents by John Wray

VIDEO

At the Commonwealth Club with Eli Horowitz

My talk at the Authors @ Google Series

AUDIO

Me reading “Fable” for The New Yorker fiction podcast
Me talking about the Westworld episode I co-wrote on the “Decoding Westworld” podcast


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