+ New York, 1982. Writer, editor, translator (Spanish>English), brown hair, green eyes, 5'10", various credentials (BA, MA), fondness for: semi-colons, the color yellow, forgotten writers, small books, small dogs. Currently: in California.
The Argentina Independent
Original translations of Argentine writing published in English: an ongoing montly series I coordiante and edit.
+ Introducing the literary section [live | local]*
+ Author Spotlight: Angela Pradelli [live | local]*
+ Story: 'The Train Robber' [live | local]
+ Spotlight: Inés Fernández Moreno [live | local]*
+ Story: 'Argentine Beef' [live | local]
+ Spotlight: Carlos Gamerro [live | local]*
+ Story: 'Bad Burgers' [live | local]**
+ Spotlight: Marcelo Pitrola [live | local]
+ Play: 'The Peronist Princess' [live | local]
+ Spotlight: Carlos Chernov [live | local]
+ Story: 'Soulless' [live | local]
+ Spotlight: Ana María Shua [live | local]
+ Story: 'Microfictions' [live | local]
+ Spotlight: Guillermo Martínez [live | local]
+ Story: 'I Also Had a Bisexual Girlfriend' [live | local]
*my writing
**my translation
Promised Lands: New Jewish Fiction on Longing and Belonging
Short story included in Brandeis University Press fictional anthology
+ Toward Lithuania [live | local]
Porchlight: A Literary Magazine
Essay about Sendak's story, my grandmother and Belgium
+ Listening for Echoes: Where the Wild Things Are as Picturebook, Novel, Film, and Memory [live | local]
Hemispheres Inflight Magazine
Short essay on grass couches for Continental Airlines
+ Country Seats [live | local]
Nerve.com
Essays on dating life in New York City
+ The Sushisexuals: The depressing truth about my dating history [live | local]
+ Weird Date: The Fortuneteller [live | local]
+ Radio Friendly: A non-listener goes undercover at an NPR singles event [live | local]
Flakmag.com
An obituary for the television mogul
+ Aaron Spelling: 1923-2006 [live | local]
Critical Quarterly (UK)
Scholarly essay adapted from my Masters thesis (6,000 words)
+ Precarious fringes of an uncertain world: To the Quayside and Emanuel Litvinoff's European Jew [live | local]
The Daily Beast
A report from the 2011 Buenos Aires International Book Fair
+ Welcome to the World Book Capital [live | local]
San Francisco Chronicle
A series of book reviews written for the Bay Area paper
+ Adam Mansbach: 'End of the Jews' is more of a beginning [live | local]
+ Zakes Mda: African Explores Tri-Racial Ohio Town [live | local]
+ Floyd Skloot: Search For Cure Tests Sick Man's Dignity [live | local]
+ Mark Doty: How Loving Dogs Makes us More Human [live | local]
+ Greg Downs, Randy Nelson: Desperate Lives Viewed Through The Refracting Lens of History [live | local]
+ Rachel Kadish: Every Happy Relationship is Different [live | local]
+ Elisa Albert: Young, Unsure—and Jewish, by the way [live | local]
Paste Magazine
An essay on South African fiction, and a short book review
+ Going South: Lonely South Africans abroad and at home [live | local]
+ The Lowdown on High School [live | local]
The Forward
A book review
+ Steve Almond: Parsing the Messy Terrain of the Human Heart [live | local]
Publishers Weekly
A series of caspule reviews, published anonymously
+ coming soon
Bookslut.com
Monthly reviews written for the online magazine
+ Laila Lalami: Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits [live | local]
+ Frank Lambert: The Barbary Wars [live | local]
+ Bret Easton Ellis: Lunar Park [live | local]
+ Sam Apple: Schlepping through the Alps [live | local]
+ Durs Grünbein: Ashes for Breakfast [live | local]
+ Kevin Young: Black Maria [live | local]
+ Valeria Zenatti: When I was a Soldier [live | local]
+ Czeslaw Milosz: Second Space [live | local]
+ Tim Seibles: Buffalo Head Solos [live | local]
SparkNotes
Literary study guides written on commission
+ for Deborah Eisenberg "Twilight of the Superheroes" [live | local]
+ for Sue Monk Kidd The Secret Life of Bees [live | local]
+ for Henry James The Ambassadors [live | local]
+ for Edgar Allen Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher" (Collected in SparkNotes 101: Short Stories) [local]
+ 'A+ Essay' on John Update & Joyce Carol Oates (Collected in SparkNotes 101: Short Stories) [local]
Nerve.com
+ Richard Ford: The Buddha of Suburbia [live | local]
+ Jane Smiley: Californication [live | local]
+ Cullen Thomas: Accidental Tourist [live | local]
+ on Ken Russell: Insane in the Membrane [live | local]
Bookslut
+ An Interview with David Markson [live | local]
Tablet
+ Harry Bernstein: Late Bloomer [live | local]
Publishers Weekly
+ Harry Bernstein: A writer takes off at 90 [live | local]
Flakmag.com
I was TV editor for Flak between 2005 and 2008. I also served as Managing Editor
+ Da Vinci & The Code He Lived By: TV Review [live | local]
+ Iconoclasts: TV Review [live | local]
+ The Crusades: TV Review [live | local]
+ Random 1: TV Review [live | local]
+ Texas Ranch House: TV Review [live | local]
+ Blind Justice: TV Review [live | local]
+ Sweet Land: Film Review [live | local]
+ Words Are Enough: Morrissey's lyrics [live | local]
+ 'Literal' Rock Stars: Footnote* vs. You Wanna Be a Rock Star [live | local]
+ The Remote: Foreign TV Blog [live | local]
+ Splog: Spam Blog [live | local]
Popmatters.com
+ Excerpts from the Misery of Grandaddy [live | local]
+ Finally Professional: Nada Surf at Ten Years [live | local]
+ Nada Surf, Shivaree, Koester: Live Review [live | local]
+ Something that Makes you Stop Thinking for a Moment: An Interview [live | local]
+ Skeletons & the Girl-faced Boys: Live Review [live | local]
About.com
I ran the site 'About: Alt & Indie Music' from September 2006 to April 2008
+ coming soon