Books + Essays

Lit Hub | Feasting with the Ghosts of Joyce The Irish Repertory Theater’s immersive adaptation of ‘The Dead’ — Lit Hub | Feasting with the Ghosts of Joyce
The Irish Repertory Theater’s immersive adaptation of ‘The Dead’

Profiles + People

Los Angeles Times | Fighting Late Capitalism One Chicken at a Time A review of Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth — Los Angeles Times | Fighting Late Capitalism One Chicken at a Time
A review of Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth

Los Angeles Times | A dark gig-economy fantasy and an enchanting debut A review of Temporary by Hilary Leichter — Los Angeles Times | A dark gig-economy fantasy and an enchanting debut
A review of Temporary by Hilary Leichter

PUNCH | Taffy Brodesser-Akner Is Anything but Basic
The prolific culture writer on her hatred of jazz, drinking with Gwyneth Paltrow and the people she’ll never profile

PUNCH | Wondrich After the Renaissance What does the future of the cocktail look like to the man who unearthed its past? — PUNCH | Wondrich After the Renaissance
What does the future of the cocktail look like to the man who unearthed its past?

PUNCH | The Keeper of Cocktail Culture With his library of 3,800 cocktail books and deep knowledge of high-end barware, Greg Boehm is perhaps the cocktail world’s greatest benefactor — PUNCH | The Keeper of Cocktail Culture
With his library of 3,800 cocktail books and deep knowledge of high-end barware, Greg Boehm is perhaps the cocktail world’s greatest benefactor

PUNCH | Drinking with Salman Rushdie The 12-time novelist on drinking with the literary establishment, his crash course in reality television and how Toni Morrison taught him to write like jazz — PUNCH | Drinking with Salman Rushdie
The 12-time novelist on drinking with the literary establishment, his crash course in reality television and how Toni Morrison taught him to write like jazz

PUNCH | Lizzie Post Will Save Us All. With Weed The great-great granddaughter of Emily Post says that etiquette—and generosity—is baked into cannabis culture. It might be just what we need right now — PUNCH | Lizzie Post Will Save Us All. With Weed
The great-great granddaughter of Emily Post says that etiquette—and generosity—is baked into cannabis culture. It might be just what we need right now

PUNCH | Mimi Casteel Is Betting the Farm How one farmer, biologist and winemaker is trying to change an entire industry’s mind about the way it grows wine — PUNCH | Mimi Casteel Is Betting the Farm
How one farmer, biologist and winemaker is trying to change an entire industry’s mind about the way it grows wine

PUNCH | Drinking with Karina Longworth The podcast host and former film critic on her book, Seduction, drinking dirty Martinis at Musso & Frank and reporting on Hollywood’s lurid past amidst its current upheaval — PUNCH | Drinking with Karina Longworth
The podcast host and former film critic on her book, Seduction, drinking dirty Martinis at Musso & Frank and reporting on Hollywood’s lurid past amidst its current upheaval

Saveur | The Spirit Hunter Nicolas Palazzi collects exceptional cognacs and handmade eaux-de-vie. But his greatest finds are the families and stories behind them — Saveur | The Spirit Hunter
Nicolas Palazzi collects exceptional cognacs and handmade eaux-de-vie. But his greatest finds are the families and stories behind them

Vanity Fair | Juan Thompson, Son of Hunter S., Writes a Book of His Own A discussion with the younger Thompson about his life with the late master of gonzo journalism — Vanity Fair | Juan Thompson, Son of Hunter S., Writes a Book of His Own
A discussion with the younger Thompson about his life with the late master of gonzo journalism

PUNCH | Drinking with Men in Blazers The podcasters who helped make soccer a thing in America talk Budweiser, baldness and the Shakespearean nature of the sport — PUNCH | Drinking with Men in Blazers
The podcasters who helped make soccer a thing in America talk Budweiser, baldness and the Shakespearean nature of the sport

The Ringer | Troma: A Love Story With the guidance of its indefatigable leader, Lloyd Kaufman, the legendary independent New York studio has been cranking out gross, glorious, and message-laden movies for decades and launching the careers of figures… — The Ringer | Troma: A Love Story
With the guidance of its indefatigable leader, Lloyd Kaufman, the legendary independent New York studio has been cranking out gross, glorious, and message-laden movies for decades and launching the careers of figures like James Gunn, Marisa Tomei, Eli Roth, Trey Parker, and Matt Stone. And more than 50 years later, Kaufman is still flipping off the film establishment

PUNCH | Is This Wine OK? The 20-second tableside dance between guest and sommelier reveals a lot about wine today — PUNCH | Is This Wine OK?
The 20-second tableside dance between guest and sommelier reveals a lot about wine today

TASTE | The Champagne of Stews Braise your sauerkraut the Chez Panisse way—with seven types of pork and lots of bubbly — TASTE | The Champagne of Stews
Braise your sauerkraut the Chez Panisse way—with seven types of pork and lots of bubbly

PUNCH | Dispatches from New Orleans Testimonials from bartenders, owners and community organizers in the wake of COVID-19 — PUNCH | Dispatches from New Orleans
Testimonials from bartenders, owners and community organizers in the wake of COVID-19

PUNCH | So Everything’s a Natural Wine Bar Now? How the fringe hangout when from ubiquitous to rebellious — PUNCH | So Everything’s a Natural Wine Bar Now?
How the fringe hangout when from ubiquitous to rebellious

TASTE | The Secret Society of Marmalade Makers Each winter the world’s marmalade makers emerge from hibernation for a jam session of epic scale — TASTE | The Secret Society of Marmalade Makers
Each winter the world’s marmalade makers emerge from hibernation for a jam session of epic scale

Grub Street | Can an Ice Cream Sundae Show Us True Perfection? Nick Morgenstern is chasing the Platonic ideal — Grub Street | Can an Ice Cream Sundae Show Us True Perfection?
Nick Morgenstern is chasing the Platonic ideal

Saveur | Four Million Pots Once a year, millions of women make a pilgrimage to Kerala, India to make an offering for their goddess, Attukal Amma *Nominated for a James Beard Award 2018 in Foodways, and an IACP Award for Travel Journalism — Saveur | Four Million Pots
Once a year, millions of women make a pilgrimage to Kerala, India to make an offering for their goddess, Attukal Amma
*Nominated for a James Beard Award 2018 in Foodways, and an IACP Award for Travel Journalism

Saveur | The Shipwrecked Sailors & the Wandering Cod In the remote archipelago of Lofoten, Arctic cod have been dried on oceanfront racks since the age of the Vikings. This is the unlikely story of how the humble fish became king of Norway — Saveur | The Shipwrecked Sailors & the Wandering Cod
In the remote archipelago of Lofoten, Arctic cod have been dried on oceanfront racks since the age of the Vikings. This is the unlikely story of how the humble fish became king of Norway

Saveur | Higher Ground At 12,000 feet above sea level, a legion of Bolivian women power an industry around the country's most valuable resource — Saveur | Higher Ground
At 12,000 feet above sea level, a legion of Bolivian women power an industry around the country's most valuable resource

The New York Times | At Kali in LA, California Cuisine Without the Pretension A restaurant that skirts preciousness for seriously beautiful food — The New York Times | At Kali in LA, California Cuisine Without the Pretension
A restaurant that skirts preciousness for seriously beautiful food

The New York Times | Touring the Dark Side of Los Angeles Thoughts on L.A.’s preoccupation with death tourism — The New York Times | Touring the Dark Side of Los Angeles
Thoughts on L.A.’s preoccupation with death tourism

The Los Angeles Times | We’re Drowning in Wine Clubs A look at the proliferation of subscriptions, which are for real, and which aren’t — The Los Angeles Times | We’re Drowning in Wine Clubs
A look at the proliferation of subscriptions, which are for real, and which aren’t

PUNCH | The Irish Pub Is Dead, Long Live the Irish Pub For as long as the Irish have lived in New York, so, too, have their bars — PUNCH | The Irish Pub Is Dead, Long Live the Irish Pub
For as long as the Irish have lived in New York, so, too, have their bars