1. books

    The Millions: Stages of Television Grief: On the Decline of Downton Abbey (Rejection; anger; denial, denial, denial; grudging acceptance.)

    The Millions: The Kid Is Alright: On The Love Song of Jonny Valentine (In which I attend a One Direction concert.)

    The Millions: Filming the Unfilmmable: On David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas (Not quite a multitude of drops.)

    The Millions: Wickets and Wonders: Cricket’s Rich Literary Vein (The history of cricket is both incredibly weird and super fascinating.)

    The Millions: Confessions of a Literary Jingoist (But I’m not really as bad as all that.)

    The Millions: Fifty Shades of Fan Fiction (Fandom, literature, and the strange divisions between high and low culture.)

    The Millions: The Slacker in Modern Fiction: The Flâneur Goes to the Mall (From Baudelaire and Flaubert to Bill and Ted.)

    newyorker.com: Lying About Reading: Who’s Keeping Score? (“Big books have never really been my thing.”)

    newyorker.com: The World Lives with Water (Reading Jim Shephard; imagining the next big flood.)

    newyorker.com: Changing Reading Forever, Again (Readers vs. non-readers in the coming decades.)

    The Millions: The Impermanence of Memory and the Book Bench: “No Longer an Issue”: Alan Hollinghurst Moves On (I would later raise my hand and ask Hollinghurst himself about the lack of sex in The Stranger’s Child.)

    newyorker.com: The Endless Harry Potter and Harry Potter, Snob? (Outing myself as a super-fan—twice—on newyorker.com.) 

    (plus about seventy other pieces for The New Yorker’s website)

    horses

    newyorker.com: Betting and the Belmont (“The whole world nowadays is in a mood to touch pleasure and minor sinfulness.”)

    The Rail: The View From Behind the Betting Windows (The life of a pari-mutuel clerk at The New York Times’s horse racing blog.)

    newyorker.com: Luck Be a Lady (Women in the gambling world.)

    Personal blog: Scenes from the Racetrack (Dispatches from the racing season in Saratoga Springs, NY.)