current projects & research interests

How Very: The Oral history of Heathers

A chronicle of the making of the 1989 film, its musical adaptation, its television reboot, and the film’s enduring and transgressive legacy.

the guide to reading (and finishing) infinite Jest

A casual reading companion for readers hoping to tackle David Foster Wallace’s magnum opus.

Strangest things: the cinema of mkultra

A trippy tour through cinema’s attempts to represent the US government’s stranger-than-fiction experiments with mind control.