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  • The Philosophy of Dress A troubled designer and her magnetic influencer-muse collaborate on a single dress, but their artistic bond unravels into toxic obsession. Wrote and produced. Feature film starring Sydney Lemmon, Romy Reiner, Jake Weary, Clara McGregor, Eric Roberts. (Completed november 2025; pursuing festivals)
  • TIGER TIGER A couple takes an interest in a strange new neighbor, only to find out he's already taken an interest in them. Surreal short film about babies, tigers, rap and Connecticut starring Sydney Lemmon and Jonathan Higginbotham. Co-wrote and produced. (SCREENED at Rooftop Films AND New/Next FestivaL) (2023)
  • Brother Graphon A summer camp, a family, and the violence of reform. Prose poem. (Published in Hobart) (2026)
  • Meanings of Melancholy A history of depression before the antidepressant (humoral, monastic, mystical, Freudian) and what the chemical settlement displaced. (Published in Comment) (2026)
  • What Is Christian Counseling? How American Christians split over the science of the mind: a century-long quarrel between pulpit and clinic, from Freud's pastor friend to the biblical counseling movement. (Published in Skeptic) (2026)
  • rethinking education in the ai age Superintelligence calls into question what schooling is for and makes humanistic answers more relevant. (Published in The Hedgehog Review) (2026)
  • On Prompting and Prompts How language models shape curiosity and attention. (Published in Blind Field: a Journal of Cultural Inquiry) (2026)
  • Clive and Worm in Winter Memoir reflecting a year of crisis abroad. Isolation, transgression, unlikely paths to self-discovery. (Published in Hobart) (2026)
  • An Anatomy of AI Criticism The promise—and revealing glitches—of ‘large language models’, based on a collaborative book-writing experiment with an AI. (Published in Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge) (2026)
  • Emails to Danny Lyrical prose piece, presented as a series of fragmented emails. (Published in The Manifest-Station) (2026)
  • Rap and the American Religion American evangelicalism as key to understanding the persona, contradictions and power of a major female rapper. (Published in Blind Field: a Journal of Cultural Inquiry) (2025)
  • No Special Place: on having a famous brother Memory, digital celebrity and political idealism, framed by the experience of having a brother who becomes an influencer. (Published in Blind Field: a Journal of Cultural Inquiry) (2025)
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