I am a writer, editor, and consultant. Clients include National Geographic, Tribune Media, Priceline, and Workman Publishing.

I’ve written several books, and co-authored and contributed to a few others. 

A member of National Book Critics Circle and the Online Film Critics Society, I write on the semi-regular for Publishers Weekly, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Slant Magazine, Rain Taxi Review of Books, and PopMatters. I also write about movies at Eyes Wide Open and have been published in places like the Chicago Tribune, In These Times, The Hollywood Reporter, The Millions, and Little White Lies.

Along the way I also worked for film festivals, background investigators, book publishers, now-defunct websites, bookstores, and restaurants (dishes, not front of house) and received a journalism degree from Northwestern University.

I can be seen alongside more erudite people in the PBS documentary Monty Python: A Celebration. As an ex-barista, I can still do a decent macchiato but never figured out how to make those leaves with the foam.