writer with words in @TheAtlantic @WSJMag @NPR @hobartpulp and elsewhere. mostly penning essays on Substack these days
Brooklyn means broken land
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My father's death liberated something in me. Words I had long choked down finally flowed freely.
My writing this past year has been an attempt to better understand the lonely, big-hearted enigma that was my father.
Here are 5 of my favorite pieces: condorgoodwing.substack.com/…
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Explosive story many years in the making, now out in Vanity Fair by Matthew Cole (who will be on Breaking Points next week, and publishing soon in @DropSiteNews):
Saudi Arabia and the UAE set up multi-billion slush funds for Jared Kushner to use.
Iran-Contra 2 here (except with Iran-Contra, at least the US got some hostages released. Not clear what we got out of this one.)
inspired by Anne Carson’s Rosalia review in LRB, i wrote a concert review of Phoebe Bridgers’ sold-out, phone-free Lost Weekend arena tour.
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Started seeing a new therapist and, for the first time, feel like i'm getting the full treatment, beginning with unpacking my Midwest childhood.
So I was eager to go home to Nebraska with a new critical eye.
Here's what I remembered: condorgoodwing.substack.com/…
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During a reporting trip I was detained for 2.5 hours by a Hudspeth County man who claims he works for border wall contractor Barnard Construction and an unidentified driver for Guardia Worldwide. (All I’ll say personally for now is that it was terrifying.) bigbendsentinel.com/2026/09/…
my latest personal essay is about reaching a new stage of grieving, just when i thought i had a handle on my dad's sudden death.
condorgoodwing.substack.com/…
THE BATTLE OF PEE HILL
A pale mob lays siege on a foreign city, armored in sunscreen and weaponizing the exchange rate.
My second dispatch from Colombia
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I wrote about seeing Fernando Botero’s fat paintings and his rotund vision of the world in the age of Ozempic when skinny is making a whispery comeback.
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Wrote about Big Sur California, my brother's radicalization, getting extremely lost, and how the world resets every time we camp together. condorgoodwing.substack.com/…
fantastic essay in @nplusonemag by Raven Leilani on how grieving changed her writing nplusonemag.com/issue-48/ess…
huuuuuuge
Sooooooo it turns out that every single red light ticket the NYPD has given cyclists since late 2019 is likely bogus?
hellgatenyc.com/judge-upends…
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i wrote about entering a new stage in the grieving process.
i thought i had a handle on grief bc i turned it into a beautiful, if tragic, story. but then it all unraveled on a wintry afternoon in late November.
substack.com/home/post/p-192…
wrote about getting extremely lost in the burned-out woods on mushrooms, my brother's radicalization, and how the world resets every time we camp, for good (grounding) and bad (COVID-19).
condorgoodwing.substack.com/…
Wrote about Big Sur California, my brother's radicalization, getting extremely lost, and how the world resets every time we camp together. condorgoodwing.substack.com/…