STAFF & NON-STAFF POSITIONS 1984-2024 Contributor to Artforum, the Atlantic, Bookforum, Comics Journal, NY Review of Books, The NYT Book Review, Photograph, Playboy, Slate, the Village Voice, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post 2004-2006 Web critic, The New York Times, reviewed Web art and culture 1997-2005 Arts & Ideas reporter, The New York Times 1995-2004 Photography critic, The New York Times 1994-1997 Staff editor, the Week in Review of The New York Times 1989-1994 Preview editor, The New York Times Book Review 1988-1989 Writer, Sports Illustrated, Sports Illustrated for Kids 1984-1987 Writer, Discover magazine 1982-1984 Associate editor & columnist, The Sciences, NY Academy of Sciences 1980-1981 Reporter, The Brooklyn Phoenix
PUBLISHED DRAWINGS 2018 "How Hamlet Became My Prince of Pigs," a comic excerpt in the New York Review online, 1997 "A Lewd Awakening," a comic in Dick for a Day 1992-1997 Illustrations for the New York Times Book Review, and the "Week in Review" of the NYT
AWARDS 2021-2024 D.C. Commission for the Arts and Humanities Fellowship
MEMBERSHIPS 2024- The Dramatists Guild 2024- The Playwrights' Center 2019-2024 The Authors Guild 2019-2024 The Newswomen's Club of New York 2006-2024 The National Book Critics Circle (voting member) 2016-2024 The Lewis Carroll Society of North America
EDUCATION 1980 Harvard University, B.A., cum laude in philosophy 1980-1999 NY Studio School, Parsons School of Design, NY Academy of Art, Art Students League -- art classes
LECTURES & INTERVIEWS 2023 Reading of libretto for my musical, "The Cotopaxi Hoax: A Shtetl Western," University of Colorado (Dec 14) Critics' Panel at Columbia J School, with David Hajdu, Amanda Petrusich, Kevin Lozano, Abigail Deutsch (Apr 10) Two Tragic-Comics, "Hamlet: Prince of Pigs" & "Anchovius Caesar" Art4Us, Gallery B, Bethesda, MD (Feb 12) 2022 Columbia J School, critics panel, with David Hajdu, Darryl Pinckney, Carlos Lozada, Wesley Morris (Mar 31) 2020 Peanuts at 70: Sarah Boxer, Jonathan Lethem, Clifford Thompson & Chris Ware Library of America (Dec 16) Evening With Randy Cohen (and Jill Sobule) at the NY Psychoanalytic Society Person, Place, Thing (Feb 13) 2019 Conversation with Michael Frank about his novel "What Is Missing" East City Bookshop (Dec 11) How to Psychoanalyze a Bunny, a book talk at 192 Books (Oct. 25) How to Psychoanalyze a Bunny, a book talk at Freud's Bar, East Bay Booksellers (Oct. 16) SPX (Small Press Expo) Exhibit & Book Signing (with Julius Boxer-Cooper) (Sept 14-15) Politics & Prose, Psychic Truth and Comics Truth, book talk on Mother May I?and The Floyd Archives(July 13) Tattered Cover, Psychic Truth and Comics Truth, Book talk on The Floyd Archivesand Mother May I? (June 17) Interview at Comics DC by Mike Rhode (June 8) Politics & Prose, Conversation With Love & Rockets' Jaime HernandezIs This How You See Me? (March 9) 2018 National Arts Club, A Conversation about The Mighty Franks (April 11) CBC Radio, Day 6, 'Infinity Mirrors' and the changing face of art in the Instagram age (March 2) 2017 Lewis Carroll Society of North America Alice: What's in a Nameslide lecture (Oct 28) 2015 NPR On Point "Charlie Brown Is Back" (Oct.23) Breadbox (Catholic) Media, Mike Allen Show "Why Charles Schulz Might Hate the Upcoming Movie (Oct 16) 2014 NPR Weekend Edition "Kids' Films And Stories Share A Dark Theme: Dead Mothers ... " (July 13) 2008 The Phillips Collection, Center for the Study of Modern Art, guest lecture on comics (Nov 17) Google (Cambridge), author’s talk on Ultimate Blogs (Aug 8) Society of National Association Publications, lecture on blogging (June 10) New York Institute for the Humanities and Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, “Post Bang” panel (June 6) Columbia Journalism School, guest lecture on blogging and journalism (May 14) Society of Professional Journalists, keynote, “The Ants Go Blogging” (April 12) Denver Press Club, discussion about blogging and journalism (April 11) Australian Broadcasting Corporation, The Book Show, radio interview (April 2) New Hampshire Public Radio, interview about Ultimate Blogs (March 2) Harvard Bookstore, panel discussion about Ultimate Blogs (March 2) New York University, Journalism Department, guest lecture on blogging and journalism (Feb 20) WNYC, The Leonard Lopate Show, "The Best of the Blogs" with Jennie Portnof & Alex Ross (Feb 18), Barnes and Noble (Chelsea), panel with Alex Ross and Jennie Portnof (Feb 18) NPR, Day to Day, interview about Ultimate Blogs (Feb 13) 2007 NPR, Morning Edition, "The Big Book of Blogs," interview with Renee Montagne (Dec 25) 2006 Newark Art Museum, panel discussion on George Herriman’s “Krazy Kat,” with Stanley Crouch, Steven Guarnaccia, Patrick McDonnell (Oct 29) Parsons/New School, Illustration Symposium, keynote lecture, “The Cat Makes the Man” (Nov 1) 2002 San Francisco Art Institute, Art Writing Conference, keynote lecture “September 11: But Is It Art?” 2001 American Psychoanalytic Association, Writers & Analysts: “Dr. Freud and Dr. Floyd” NPR, “Whad’Ya Know,” radio interview about In the Floyd Archives NY1, television interview about In the Floyd Archives 2000 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, conference on “The Unknowable”