Pleasantly surprised to learn that my latest for Cleveland Review of Books is mentioned in this month's Paper Trail section of Bookforum Magazine !

"What, then, do Jews who are invested both in being in lockstep with the Palestinian struggle and in our Jewish cultural lives do with our Judaism?" 👿🐲👹🍰 on Questions to Ask Before your Bat Mitzvah Wendy's Subway clereviewofbooks.com/writing/morgan…

"a conceptual shrimp uses its limbs to reshape the reader’s mind, mounding and clefting your mental world until it is the mental world of some other creature: shark, scallop, arthropod boiled down to pure flavor crunch." poetry by Brandan Griffin clereviewofbooks.com/writing/shrimp…

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One of the best out

my first for Cleveland Review of Books is about judaism, action, and histories beyond clereviewofbooks.com/writing/morgan…

"Perhaps the literary community needs a lot more of the absurd, even in spades, and perhaps especially in relation to economics." Brandon North on class diversity in publishing clereviewofbooks.com/writing/money-…

I've worked on this essay for over a year. It contains a lot of what I've learned about class diversity in literary circles, and offers some (unorthodox?) ways to improve it. Huge thanks to Zach Peckham for not only bettering this, but for asking to work on it in the first place.

2018 grad Brandon North on class diversity in publishing.

"The concept’s opaqueness allowed users to commit neither to the elites that lauded its virtues nor to the egalitarian sensibilities that insisted creativity was a latent trait evenly distributed." William Krause on The Cult of Creativity UChicagoPress clereviewofbooks.com/writing/samuel…

"Their analysis lends itself to an intentionally divisive strand of right wing populism that profits from cleaving the white male from a unified working-class." Charlotte E. Rosen on "Rust Belt Union Blues" clereviewofbooks.com/writing/workin…

gave some thought to the 'white working-class conservatism' discourse in a new review for Cleveland Review of Books: clereviewofbooks.com/writing/workin…

Lots of nanny discourse lately. For Cleveland Review of Books, I wrote how recent nanny novels like Luster by Raven Leilani highlight the social tensions between white women and WOC in elite spheres. Link in reply. There's a paywall, so subscribe to CRB! Thanks to Brianna Di Monda for editing.

New Charlotte E. Rosen 🚨 ‼️

"I’m also an instrument. My wingspan, another measure. I spread my palm beside the grass. What fraction of me is the height of this?" excerpt from "No Measure" by Kelly Krumrie clereviewofbooks.com/writing/from-n…

Thank you, friends at Cleveland Review of Books, for publishing this excerpt from No Measure! The book will be out Oct. 1 from Calamari Archive. clereviewofbooks.com/writing/from-n…

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"Baptize yourself in the promise that every moment might ring with the ecstasy of leftovers fitting just perfectly into a takeout carton." Leo Kim on the appeal of containers clereviewofbooks.com/writing/leokim…