Selected Publications / Bibliography
“Has Satoshi Vision of the Future Been Corrupted?” 21Cryptos. Online.
“Predicting the Next Bull Market.” 21Cryptos. Online.
“The Future of Blockchain: Predicting the Future.” 21Cryptos. Online.
“Bitcoin in Venezuela.” 21Cryptos. Online.
“Vaporwave.” Angeles Review. Online.
“Oklahoma’s Class System.” This Land Press. Print.
“Growing Up as an Expat.” Oklahoma Humanities Magazine. Forthcoming.
“The Horror of the Ouachita Mountains.” This Land Press. Print.
“Restaurant Reviews: Muskogee, Tulsa, Tahlequah.” Oklahoma Today. Forthcoming.
“Art, Literature, and All the Crude in America.” Literary Hub. May 2015. Online.
“My Grandfather’s Imposter.” Roads & Kingdoms. August 2015. Online.
“Oklahoma Beards.” Oklahoma Today. April/May 2015. Print.
“Profile: Jenks Football Coach.” Oklahoma Today. January/February 2015. Print.
“Beauty, Purpose, and Preservation.” This Land Press. November 15, 2014. Print.
“Satan Comes to Oklahoma City.” The Paris Review Daily. November 1, 2014. Online.
“Tulsa Modernism.” Oklahoma Today. November/December 2014. Print.
“Heavy Heart, Empty Heart.” Columbia Magazine. Fall 2014. Print.
“Ancestry Days.” Oklahoma Today. August/September 2014. Print.
“The New Nepal.” Roads & Kingdoms. August 2014. Online.
“Google’s John Hanke.” WIRED. July 2014. Print.
“Kickstarter Equation.” WIRED. July 2014. Print.
“The Surprisingly Strong Case for Colonizing Venus.” CityLab / The Atlantic. Online.
“How-to Campfire Cooking.” Oklahoma Today. June/July 2014. Print.
“Inside the Studio: Troy Jackson.” Art Focus Oklahoma. May/June 2014. Print.
“Indian Country’s Neuromancers.” This Land Press. March 2014. Print.
“Datastream.” WIRED. March 2014. Print.
“Petrostate.” This Land Press. December 1, 2013. Print.
“An Ethnography of the Elite.” Print. Forthcoming. This Land Press
“Manhattan and the Mephistophelean Mind.” 3 Quarks Daily. November 2013. Online.
“A Universal History of Online Iniquity.” 3 Quarks Daily. December 2013. Online.
“When the Rodeo Clowns Came.” 3 Quarks Daily. September 2013. Online.
“Moving Down Yonder to the Indian Nation.” This Land Press. September 15, 2013. Print.
“Doomsday Preppers and Reddit Pizza.” WIRED. July 2013. Print.
“The Metropolitan Trilogy.” 3 Quarks Daily. July 2013. Online.
“The Dazzling Debut Is Dead.” Newsweek / The Daily Beast. June 4, 2013. Online.
“The Cherokee Nation Constitutional Crisis.” This Land Press. May 2013. Print.
“Remote Viewing in the Sooner State.” The Paris Review Daily. May 2013. Online.
“The Great Spy’s Dream.” 3 Quarks Daily. May 2013. Online.
“Inside the Abattoir.” This Land Press. April 15, 2013. Print.
“Remembering Life in Arcosanti.” WIRED. April 2013. Online.
“The Game of (Not) Life.” 3:AM Magazine. March 2013. Online.
“The State of Cherokee Nation.” TIME. March 11, 2013. Online.
“Destination: Oklahoma.” 3 Quarks Daily. March 2013. Online.
“A Battered Bag of Memories.” The Chronicle of Higher Education / The Chronicle Review. February 25, 2013. Print.
“Silicon Valley: Literary Capital of the 21st Century.” 3 Quarks Daily. February 2013. Online.
“Writing and the World of Tomorrow.” 3 Quarks Daily. January 2013. Online.
“Jesse Ventura Suspects a Conspiracy Against His Show About Conspiracies.” The Atlantic. December 17, 2012. Online.
“M.F.A. Madness.” The Chronicle of Higher Education / The Chronicle Review. November 12, 2012. Print.
“Art World Apostate.” Oxford American. November 2012. Online.
“A Libertarian Paradise in Honduras.” Los Angeles Review of Books. November 2012. Online.
“A Republican Literature of the Americas.” Newsweek / The Daily Beast. November 5, 2012. Online.
“Literary Magazines: Read All About It.” The Economist, Prospero. October 2012. Online.
“The Q&A: James Ellroy.” The Economist, Prospero. October 2012. Online.
“The Smug Technocrats Who Will Rule Tomorrow.” 3 Quarks Daily. October 2012. Online.
“Common People: Class and the ’80s.” The Awl. August 2012. Online.
“A Requiem for Roscoe.” 3 Quarks Daily. August 2012. Online.
“The Romance of Mayhem and High Explosive.” 3 Quarks Daily. July 2012. Online.
“Google on the L Train: Sci-Fi, Wi-Fi, and the MTA.” The Awl. July 2012. Online.
“Translit Is Neither New nor Subversive.” 3 Quarks Daily. June 2012. Online.
“Our First Expatriate President.” 3 Quarks Daily. May 2012. Online.
“Nobody Wins.” The Economist, Prospero. April 2012. Online.
“Diabolical Women.” The Economist, Prospero. March 2012. Online.
“Solving the Inequality Equation.” Columbia GSAS SuperScript. Spring 2012. Print.
“The Different Dialects of Serial Murder.” 3 Quarks Daily. February 2012. Online.
“Will the Maine Coon Become an American Icon?” 3 Quarks Daily. January 2012. Online.
“Thing Writing.” 3 Quarks Daily. November 2011. Online.
“Gripes and Halloween Horrors.” 3 Quarks Daily. October 2011. Online.
“Marco Polo in Boulder, Colorado.” 3 Quarks Daily. October 2011. Online.
“The Last MFA Essay I Will Ever Write.” 3 Quarks Daily. September 2011. Online.
“A Dose of Bile.” 3 Quarks Daily. August 2011. Online.
“The Thirty-Third Internet Connection in New Delhi.” 3 Quarks Daily. July 2011. Online.
“Writing for Machines.” 3 Quarks Daily. June 2011. Online.
“Imagining an Expat Aesthetic.” 3 Quarks Daily. May 2011. Online.
“After the Internet Was Shut Off.” 3 Quarks Daily. April 2011. Online.
“The Starter Gallery.” 3 Quarks Daily. March 2011. Online.
“An Attempt at Unraveling Ridgewood, Queens.” 3 Quarks Daily. February 2011. Online.
“Could Student Loan Debt Spark Insurrection?” 3 Quarks Daily. January 2011. Online.
“Spark Gaps and Circuits.” 3 Quarks Daily. December 2010. Online.
“Baptism by Soda.” 3 Quarks Daily. November 2010. Online.
“A Brief Reflection on Czar Gutierrez’s Bombardier.” HTMLGIANT. October 2010. Online.
“The Q&A: Tom McCarthy.” More Intelligent Life. September 2010. Online.
“The Q&A: Kurt Kauper, Artist.” More Intelligent Life. September 2010. Online.
“The Q&A: Lorin Stein.” More Intelligent Life. April 2010. Online.
“Whitney’s Tepid Biennial.” More Intelligent Life. March 2010. Online.
“Can You Really Rank Writing Programmes?” More Intelligent Life. December 2009. Online.
“Strange Breeds.” More Intelligent Life. October 2009. Online.
“Art and (Gauche Breaches of) Etiquette.” More Intelligent Life. August 2009. Online.
“Another New York Peep Show.” More Intelligent Life. August 2009. Online.
“A Bandit on the High Line.” More Intelligent Life. August 2009. Online.
“Harlem’s Rising Artists.” More Intelligent Life. August 2009. Online.
“Charles Saatchi Has an Addiction.” More Intelligent Life. August 2009. Online.
“CIA Assassinations.” The L Magazine. August 2009. Print.
“The Life and Death of a Hipster King.” More Intelligent Life. July 2009. Online.
“What Is an Alien Artist to Do?” More Intelligent Life. June 2009. Online.
“An Artfully Disjointed Venice Biennale.” More Intelligent Life. June 2009. Online.
“Iggy Pop’s Ambient, Literary Jazz Album.” More Intelligent Life. May 2009. Online.
“The Q&A: Sasha Grey, Performer.” More Intelligent Life. May 2009. Online.
“Why Attack Hotels?” Culture11. December 2008. Print.
“Ironclad Closet.” Long Island City Magazine. 2008. Print.
“The Madness of the Upperclass.” The L Magazine. July 2008. Print.
“Cyberpunk Is Not Dead.” The L Magazine. July 2007. Print.
“Ben Jonson’s Rebus.” Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism. May 2007.
Teaching
2018 Guest Lecturer, University of California Santa Cruz
Lectured on journalism for a Kresge Core Class.
2017-2018 Public Fellow, Oklahoma Center for the Humanities
Homelands Seminar.
Instructor in English, Northeastern State University
Fall 2015-2017 (as instructor)
Fall 2014-Spring 2015 (as adjunct)
Courses include: Teaching Travel and Adventure Writing (ENG3013) – an upper-division writing class focused on nonfiction; Intro to Creative Writing (ENG3043); Composition II (ENG 1213) and Composition I (ENG1113).
Workshop Instructor, Oklahoma City University
January 2015
Taught a one-day graduate workshop called “On knowing when to steal and make things up.”
Adjunct Professor, University of Tulsa
Fall 2014
Taught two sections of ENG1033, Exposition and Argumentation.
Adjunct Professor, Bacone College
Spring 2014
Teaching two courses of English 1113, Composition I.
One section of SPCH1713 Speech and Critical Thinking.
Teaching Assistant, Columbia University
Fall 2010
Worked with Prof. Heidi Julavits to develop curriculum for Fiction: A Primer, the introductory graduate survey course for Columbia’s graduate fiction students.
Fiction Editor, Columbia University
Fall 2009—May 2011
Edited the fiction pages of Columbia University’s premiere literary journal, Columbia Journal of Art and Literature. Solicited authors and edited manuscripts. Four direct reports.