Election Night went to Cannes!
Adapted from a play I wrote called “The Last American Liberal”, the short film Election Night was selected for the Emerging Film Showcase and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, starring Peri Gilpin (“Frasier”).                                            

The Delirium of COVID-19
Slate.com

It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown vs. Charlie and Lola
Slate.com

The Ghost Distilleries of Single Malt Scotch
Saveur Magazine

On Mitt Romney and Mormonism
The New York Times

The Hogwarts Headache
The New York Times

Throwback: Gen Y and War in 2003
Salon.com

13th GEN: Abort, Retry, Ignore Fail, contributing author, Random House…The O.G. treatise on Gen X, brought to you by the men who coined the term “Millennials”.

Next: Young American Writers on the New Generation, contributing author, W.W. Norton and Co… An excellent snapshot of generational warfare, ‘90s-style.

My family were musicians; my mom was a composer, and my dad was a symphony conductor who kept moving us to a new town with a better orchestra. I was a concert violinist, and a complete zork. I went to grade school in eastern Iowa; middle school in London, England; a prep school in Tidewater, VA; then landed at the amazing University of North Carolina. It was there I wrote the oddly-viral article Why I Hate Duke and its sister article Why I Still Hate Duke.

I kept a blog for 12 years that led to fun magazine work, and now I pitch and write TV shows that I would have liked as a kid staying up too late. These days we work from Venice Beach, but the only place we can truly hang our hat is up in the Taconic Range of New York, at a tiny farm where nothing really works. I grow misshapen fruit, tap (and spill) maple sap for syrup, and do a lot of weird shit that doesn't make us any money. For 21 years, I’ve hosted a yearly festival of arts, music, philosophy and hare-brained schemes at our farm.

I can do Morse Code at 35 wpm because 7th grade was not a good time for me. I can write in four different calligraphy fonts, five if I've opened an Ardbeg single malt. I separate my dark clothes from the whites, and I know which cups are top-rack dishwasher safe. If you feel something, I will feel it with you.