Link Sink: An updated list of my favorite bylines

[Updated 9/29/2022] Greetings, lovely readers!

Firstly, thank you so much to everyone who has read my Medium post on working as a modern-day Cyrano de Bergerac; the essay was featured by Zora and I am so grateful for y’all’s kind words and solidarity. You can read that piece using the Friend Link here. Please subscribe to receive notifications of new posts via email, and pretty please share my posts via Twitter/your favorite social media platforms.

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In case you’d like to read what else I’ve written, here is an updated list of my favorite freelance bylines, in no particular order:

1. New! A review of the brilliant and bleak third season of Ramy, for Ebert Voices, Sept. 2022
2. New! For GQ, an interview with actor Matt Smith. You may know him as Prince Philip, Christopher Isherwood, Charles Manson, or Robert Mapplethorpe, and now you can catch him as Daemon Targaryen on HBO’s House of the Dragon, Aug. 2022
3. New! An interview for The Daily Beast with costume designer Jany Temime (her other credits include Children of Men, Gravity, Spectre, Skyfall, and the last 6 Harry Potter films) whose terrific work on HBO’s House of the Dragon finds drama in the details, Sept. 2022
4. An essay about being a rape survivor, the Me Too movement, and Aziz Ansari for Medium, June 2018
5. An interview with television personality and supermodel Padma Lakshmi for Harper’s Bazaar, Nov. 2021
6. An interview with actor Shea Whigham for Ebert Voices, Apr. 2022
7. A hybrid essay+interview, on the wardrobe of Mad Men, plus excerpts of my interview with the series’ costume designer Janie Bryant for Ebert Voices, March 2022
8. An essay about cardamom, featuring my own recipe for mango trifle, for Defector, Nov. 2021
9. An essay about the landmark Hindi film Dil Chahta Hai for Ebert Voices, June 2022
10. A review of the fourth season of HBO’s Westworld for The Daily Beast, June 2022
11. A review of The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, the Apple TV+ series starring Samuel L. Jackson, for Ebert Voices, March 2022
12. An interview with Sarita Choudhry, the best part of And Just Like That, HBO’s follow-up to Sex and the City for Harper’s Bazaar, Feb. 2022
13. An essay about becoming an American citizen at age 17 for Pacific Standard, June 2017
14. An essay about about my iconoclastic middle school Latin teacher for Midnight Breakfast, March 2016
15. A double review of two short story collections: Nick White’s Sweet and Low and Lydia Millet’s Fight No More, for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Aug. 2018
16. An article about my school district’s (failed) attempt to create a high school dress code for the Fort Worth Weekly, Nov. 2006

As always, thank you for reading. I hope you’ll continue to enjoy my future Medium posts.