STAFF & NON-STAFF POSITIONS 2013-2019 Contributing Writer, The Atlantic and Photograph 1984-2019 Contributor to Artforum, Comics Journal, LA Review of Books, NY Review of Books, NYT Book Review, Slate, Smithsonian, 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 ofThe New York Times 1989-1994 Preview editor, NYT 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 1992-2018 Drawings and comics for the New York Reviewonline, NYT Book Review, and the Week in Review of NYT 1997 "A Lewd Awakening," a comic in Dick for a Day
OTHER WORK 2019 Reader for New Directions: Writing With a Psychoanalytic Edge, Washington-Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis 2014-2017 Judge for The LA Times Book Prize (graphic novels and comics)
EDUCATION 1980 Harvard University, B.A. with honors in philosophy 1980s-1990s NY Studio School, Parsons School of Design, NY Academy of Art, Art Students League -- drawing classes
LECTURES & INTERVIEWS 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, The 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 7) - 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”
MEMBERSHIPS 2006-2019 National Book Critics Circle (voting member) 2019- The Authors' Guild 2016-2019 The Lewis Carroll Society of North America