Essays & Archive
Essays & Archive
Selected nonfiction. Not everything published — only the pieces that belong together.
Cultural criticism
The Archive. What the industry does with the dead, and who profits from reopening the ground.
- We Built the Butcher Ed Gein, Plainfield, and seventy years of an industry opening the ground.
- Nobody Was Blind That Night Milwaukee, seventeen men, and the spell of unseeing.
- Nobody Invented Valentine’s Day A poem for a royal engagement, a saint filed under the wrong month, and six hundred years of turning an accident into an obligation.
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The Camera Was On the Whole Time Kitty Menendez and thirty-seven years of looking at everything except her.
Personal essays
Investigation & archive
Held to a different standard: primary documents, named sources, documented negative results.
The Marfa Bureau
Writing rooted in the country between Alpine and Marfa.