My Writing
The Latest, Etc. — April 2013
- I adore Laura Stevenson’s new record The Wheel.
- Never thought I’d use the words “polyester,” “mirrorball” or “making out” in an Iron & Wine review, but here we are.
This Year
- BuzzFeed (full archive)
Do We Need A Postal Service Reunion? - essay, February 2013
- eMusic (full archive)
Jessica Pratt, Jessica Pratt - review, March 2013
Lady Lamb The Beekeeper, Ripely Pine - review, February 2013
Torres, Torres - review, January 2013
- Pitchfork (full archive)
Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer, Child Ballads - review, March 2013
Frightened Rabbit, Pedestrian Verse - review, February 2013
- Salon (full archive)
My Lady Mustache - essay, March 2013
- Southern Living
The New Sound of Muscle Shoals - feature, January 2013
Older Favorites
- Atlanta (full archive)
My Haunted South - essay, November 2012
- The Believer
The Woodstock of the South: A Rock Festival’s Unmaking of an American Town (full-text PDF) - essay, July/August 2012
- The Billfold (full archive)
Out of Work, Out to California - essay, April 2012
- Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine (full archive)
Up the Hill - feature, November 2012
— featured on Longreads; winner, 2013 CASE District III Grand Award for Feature Writing
- The Hairpin
Moving Day - essay, September 2012
- The Oxford American (full archive)
Singles Girls: The Rise of Female Rock Writing - book review, December 2011
Phosphorescent: An Ode to Displacement - profile, December 2010
- The Paris Review Daily (full archive)
Other People’s Churches - essay, October 2011
Here with the Windies - essay, June 2011
- Paste Magazine (full archive)
Laura Veirs, July Flame - review, December 2009; Regina Specktor, Far - review, June 2009; Brandi Carlile, Give Up the Ghost - review, October 2009
— together, finalists for a 2010 National Magazine Award in Reviews & Criticism
Dummies in the Attic: Airing out the Legacy of Joel Chandler Harris - feature, July 2008
—winner, Magazine Association of the Southeast’s 2009 Silver GAMMA award for Best Feature
- Pitchfork (full archive)
Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection - review, July 2012
- Slate
I Dreamed a Tween: Why kids will never stop loving Les Miserables - essay, December 2012
Full Archives, Elsewhere
