Selected interviews & reporting:
Why Fillers Are the Go-To Hack for Millennials for BuzzFeed
How This Art Student Became The Weirdest, Funniest Guy On TikTok for BuzzFeed
Two Writers on the Joys of Being Single, But Also Sometimes Dating, in Your 30’s for Healthyish
Cruising Santa Monica Boulevard with the fetish photographer who shot LA’s male hustlers for The LA Times
How TikTok’s posing king teaches his 4 million followers to take better photographs for The LA Times
Francesca Lia Block is So Much More Than Weetzie Bat for LitHub
Plus:
The Power of Perseverance for Alta Journal
Silicon Valley is Everywhere for Alta Journal
Gradations of Anxiety and Precarity: Lynn Steger Strong Interviewed by Zan Romanoff for BOMB
Chefs Are the Lusty New Heartthrobs in Romance Novels for Bon Appetit
The Taylor Swift Conspiracy Theory That She is Secretly Gay for Broadly
Leigh Bardugo Want Ninth House to “Fuck You Up a Little” for Bustle
The Real WAGs of TikTok for BuzzFeed
The Guy Who Wrote Everything is F*cked Actually Thinks Life is Pretty Great for Buzzfeed
The New Age of Astrology for Buzzfeed
Catie Disabato’s Novel U Up? Renders LA’s Magic in Dark Bars and Chaotic Text Messages for Cinnamon Mag
The Duplex With Friends for Curbed
Inside Hello Kitty’s Rise to Food Superstardom for Eater
Halo Top Completely Conquered Freezer Shelves. Are Scoop Shops Next? for Eater
Why the Cast of Vanderpump Rules Will Sell You Anything for The Goods
Interview with Jane Marie about The Dream and MLMs for The Goods
John Green Author Guide for Google Play Books
Interview with Kate Hart for Google Play Books
Interview with Lauren Elkin for Google Play Books
How Richard Branson’s Interior Designer Does Travel for GQ
‘We Act Consciously On the Page and in Life:’ An Interview with Matthew Salesses for Hazlitt
‘The Rebelliousness of the Body:’ An Interview with Rufi Thorpe for Hazlitt
Interview with Adrian Shirk for The Hairpin
Going to Bed With… Leah Guerrero, Brujita Skincare for Healthyish
Inside the Mad-Science World of a Professional Fermentation Chef for Healthyish
Dominique Fishback for Healthyish
Claudette Zepeda-Wilkins on What it Means to Open a Matriarchal Restaurant for Healthyish
We Want Everything on the Menu at this Cali-Filipino Spot for Healthyish
We Go to This Restaurant Just to Stare at the Ceramics for Healthyish
Ojai: Your Best Weekend Escape from LA for Healthyish
What Flavors Pair With Your Favorite Alternative Flour? for Healthyish
These Cacti Are Beautiful and Edible for Healthyish
The Vegan Cheesecakes That are Almost Too Beautiful to Eat for Healthyish
Breakfast with Hollywood’s Favorite Crystal Healer for Healthyish
The Most Expensive Matcha in LA for Healthyish
Where Do the Powders in Your Smoothie Come From? for Healthyish
The LA Skater Sisters Who Take Their Ashwaghanda With a Side of Bacon and Eggs for Healthyish
What It’s Like to be Rihanna’s Personal Chef for Healthyish
Pandora Jewelry is Back for InStyle
On Camp Food for The Jewish Journal
Summer Camp Love for The Jewish Journal
Also at the Journal: a bunch of restaurant reviews, two profiles of rich men, and more
No such thing as a ‘crackhead:’ Drawing stories and lessons from the last drug epidemic for The LA Times
‘Bad Gays’ and the two podcasters who love them for The LA Times
‘Speculative Los Angeles:’ Otherworldly stories set in a sprawling, haunted place for The LA Times
A college admissions novel that’s less about gossip than complicity for The LA Times
Think the Regency was all corsets and patriarchy? A romance-lit fiend says think again for The LA Times
Dystopian fiction has always been real for Ray Bradbury prize winner Marlon James for The LA Times
The new APL restaurant in Hollywood fulfills a dream: helping bring deaf chefs into the kitchen for The LA Times
This Navy vet turned fishmonger is smoking and curing some of LA’s Best Sustainable Seafood for The LA Times
Butcher Kate Flannery Carries On a Family Tradition for The LA Times
How Patina Teamed With Formerly Incarcerated Cooks to Prepare Food for the Emmys for The LA Times
One Chef’s Journey From Addiction to Fine Dining to the Teaching Kitchen for The LA Times
Iconic Cheetah’s Dancer Malice is Launching a Clothing Line for LA Weekly
The Best Non-Coffee Drinks at Coffee Shops for LA Weekly
Meet the Writer Who Chased Eve Babitz All Over Los Angeles for LitHub
“I Want Every Sentence to Be Doing Work:” Interview With Miranda Popkey for Longreads
“By Choice, and Not By Choice…Time is Going to Change You:” Interview with Nina MacLaughlin for Longreads
“I’m Incredulous That People Do This Repeatedly. The Second Book Thing is So Real:” Interview with Mary HK Choi for Longreads
A Manson Murder Investigation Twenty Years in the Making: ‘There Are Still Secrets’ for Longreads
Every Woman Writer Feels Like She’s Starting Over Again Without Any Guides: Interview with Ann Leckie for Longreads
A profile of actress Sofia Boutella, originally featured as the cover story in Malbu Magazine’s May 2017 print issue
This LA Chef Partnered With a Local Farmer for the Best Szechuan Peppercorns for Modern Farmer
Flour Power for Modern Farmer
Restoring the Urban Sea by Farming It for National Geographic
Wes Bentley Rides to Yellowstone, Armed With New Strength for Playboy
Joe Manganiello Isn’t Just the Guy Who Takes His Clothes Off for Playboy
Madeline Brewer, Handmaid’s Tale Star, Just Wants You to Be Okay for Playboy
The Ethics (& Economics) of Freebies for Pressland
Boxing Gloves for Women Can’t Just Be Smaller (Or Pink) for Racked
Our Jeans Are Ruining The Planet, But This Company Wants to Fix That for Racked
Inside the Oscar’s Makeup and Hairstyling Awards Bakeoff for Racked
Yes, It’s Okay to Care About What You Wear to Vote for Racked
Beyond Slender Man: When Teens Use the Internet for Evil for Rolling Stone
The Natural Mother of the Child is a Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood for Romper
‘The Girls in Queens’ and the Power of Enduring Female Friendships for Shondaland
Elissa Sussman Challenges Masculinity and Romance Tropes in Funny You Should Ask for Shondaland
Tarot Therapy with Jessica Dore for Shondaland
Celina Myers is Bringing Horror and Humor to TikTok for Shondaland
Emily Adrian’s ‘The Second Season’ Examines Professional Ambition and the Intimate Imperatives of Motherhood for Shondaland
Anna Carey’s New Novel Dives Into the Dark Side of our Online Lives for Shondaland
Courtney Summers Dives Into the World of Cults, Not as Spectacle But as Mirror for Shondaland
Missing the 2020 Olympics? Hannah Orenstein’s ‘Head Over Heels’ is the Perfect Juicy Gymnastics Read for Shonaland
‘Still’ Author Emma Hansen Shines Hope on Surviving the Unimaginable for Shondaland
The Sustainable Clothing Brand With a Crowdsourced Spirit for soft—space
Interview: Karla Welch for The Sunday Times
LA’s Best Breakfast Restaurants for TimeOut LA
various reporting on the global finals of the WeWork Creator Awards
Female Founders Find a Home in Los Angeles for WeWork