February 6, 2018     New York, NY: Greenlight Bookstore, Fort Greene store
(in conversation with Meghan Daum)
February 7, 2018     New York, NY: McNally Jackson
February 8, 2018     Washington, DC: Politics & Prose, Wharf Store
February 9, 2018     Baltimore, MD: Atomic Books
February 10, 2018   Seattle, WA: Elliot Bay Book Company
February 11, 2018   San Francisco, CA: Book Passage, Corte Madera Store
February 12, 2018   San Francisco, CA: Books, Inc.., Berkeley
February 13, 2018   Portland, OR: Powell’s Main Downtown Store

An audiobook edition of We Learn Nothing, read by me, is now available.

“The Man and Me,“ an essay on my old nemesis in The Week, January 14, 2015.

Illustration by me, Officers.

“When Art Is Dangerous (Or Not),” an essay on the Charlie Hebdo cartoonist assassinations, New York Times Sunday Review, January 11, 2015.

Charlie Hebdo, 2 November 2015. Cover by Luz.

An essay for the New York Times‘ “Menageie” series, about the dispiriting moral problem of killing things around the house.

Cartoon by Ruben Bolling.

“Is Monogamy Insane?“,* an essay on monogamy, polyamory, marriage and the impossibility of all relationships for The Men’s Journal. An expanded version of this piece will appear in my next book.

*I’ll just mention once again that writers don’t get to title their own articles

“A Rock Opera Interrupted,” The Baltimore Sun, September 19, 2014.

Top: The usual finale of 1814!
Bottom: The finale on September 14, 2014.

An account of the now-legendary Bicentennial performance of 1814!: The Rock Opera shut down by the Baltimore City Police.

“Death of Our Clown,” Al Jazeera, August 17, 2014.

1.) The illustration I submitted 2.) What they decided to go with instead

I explore people’s possibly pathological attachment to their pets, and eulogize my own late cat at some length, in the Weekend Review of the New York Times.

Illustration by my pal Lisa Hanawalt.

Several of my essays have been translated into French and published by Moyen-Courrier.