Writing
I'm trained as a fiction writer (M.F.A., University of Pittsburgh) and have published fiction, poetry, essays, and genre-bending work in journals and publications including Guernica, diagram, Glimmer Train, The New Guard Review's BANG!, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Adroit Journal, and Art Review.I also write and produce audio documentary, and I'm a founder of the storytelling collective Cool Molecules Media.
Recent fragments
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A few collages from Life magazine and photos
Collage with a life magazine and miscellaneous photos
A few winter collages with flowers
Dried rose petals and some fine paper from an old magazine
In praise of: the em dash
Robots, you can’t have it
How to stop worrying and love the poem
The robot builds a bomb, with instructions in iambic pentameter
Recent publications
xraylitmag.comHIS FATHER'S FATHER by Joshua D. Graber
After Lydia Davis 1. Every time his father spoke, he had questions. Primarily, which parts of the stories were true and which were false? A narrative based on a true story is a wonderful promise for people who believe in Jesus or Tom Hanks, but he was less interested in this muddled middle ground. He wanted verifiable truth or delicious lies, and to know the difference. There is infinite combinatorial explosion when multiple people tell a story and infinite doubt when only one person does. Like, for instance, the story of his father’s father walking into a bar where...
www.post-gazette.comJoshua D. Graber: A plant-based trip with Michael Pollan
When Michael Pollan’s latest book, “A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness,” arrived in my mailbox, I texted a friend who loves...
www.theadroitjournal.orgA Review of Alex Higley’s True Failure
In 1997, during the first wave of a reality TV deluge that remains ongoing, a cast member of MTV’s Road Rules named Holly spoke about the nickname her cast used for the crew: “Big Brother.” Holly s…
www.mrbullbull.comMetaphors Toward ________________ | MrBullBull
www.post-gazette.comReview: The muses of Andy Warhol
“I find women more interesting than men,” Laurence Leamer told me last month when we caught up. Leamer was in Pittsburgh to promote “Warhol’s...
www.artreview.comGenre and the Newer Newness
Danielle Dutton’s ‘Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other’ attempts to galvanize literary art’s sense of perpetual death. What new forms can she offer?
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Review: Mara Van Der Lugt on the morality of having children
A few years ago, a healthy, professedly happy Mumbai businessman named Raphael Samuel publicly threatened to sue his parents — both lawyers —...