EDITING
I’m a skilled and versatile editor with experience across many formats, including features, criticism, essays, and fiction. In my capacity overseeing books coverage at Esquire, I’ve edited viral features about everything from the New York Times best-seller list to the broken book blurb system to the dearth of fact-checking in nonfiction books (I edit features outside of books too, like this gonzo dive into the world’s biggest machine gun shoot). As for criticism, I’ve edited essays about subjects like the damaging lies of Go Ask Alice, the limitations of climate fiction, and the lasting legacy of Gone Girl. I’ve also commissioned and edited original works of fiction by writers like T.C. Boyle, Jess Walter, Rumaan Alam, Brandon Taylor, and Molly Ringwald.
I’m also experienced in conceiving and editing print and digital packages—like Esquire’s annual Summer Fiction Week, a digital reinvention of the magazine’s annual Summer Reading issues from the 1980s and 1990s. Our most recent outing included a deep dive into viral book merchandise, a meditation on the short story’s relevance in the digital age, and the return of The Napkin Project, Esquire’s storied flash fiction series.
I’ve been privileged to work on first-person essays with fantastic writers like Andrew Sean Greer, V.E. Schwab, C Pam Zhang, and Nicole Chung. It’s been a true joy to edit such personal pieces as this meditation on uncles and this wild journey through New Jersey’s Philip Roth festival. My experience editing first-person writing also includes Esquire’s “Dispatches From the New Middle Age” column, where I edit literary writers as they thrash out big ideas about men in midlife. I’ve loved working on this column with writers including Joshua Ferris, Jeff VanderMeer, Heather Havrilesky, Garth Greenwell, and Ottessa Moshfegh, among others.
I also know my way around adapting a book excerpt for a magazine, whether it’s fiction or nonfiction. In the fiction space, I’ve edited excerpts from novels by Stephen King, James Ellroy, Karen Russell, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, and Bret Easton Ellis, among others. In the nonfiction space, you’ll find my handiwork on a great variety of pieces, including this investigation into the race to develop Covid-19 vaccines, this immersive feature about a high school basketball championship in Montana, and this essay about Sloane Crosley’s porn star uncle.
I also have experience editing interviews and profiles about everyone from writers like Chuck Palahniuk and Brandon Sanderson to performers like Anson Mount and Sandra Oh.