Books

Basic Witches: How To Summon Success, Banish Drama, And Raise Hell With Your Coven, with Jaya Saxena. Quirk Books, 2017
Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology. Beacon, 2021

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Essays

"A Year Without an Ending," Catapult
"It Doesn't Hurt, It Hurts All the Time," Catapult
"This Is All My Fault," Electric Literature
"The Towering Influence of Leonard Cohen," Electric Literature
"The Torturer's Horse," Electric Literature
​"Entrance Not For Everybody," Hazlitt
"Role Monsters" column, Catapult

• "The Monstrous Female Ambition Of The Harpy"
• "What If We Cultivated Our Ugliness? or: The Monstrous Beauty of Medusa"
• "Claim Your Complexity: The Monstrous Upheaval of the Chimera"
• "When It Is Considered Monstrous Not to Want Children, and Monstrous to Want Them Too Much"
• "Anger That Can Save the World: On Justice, Feminism, and the Furies"

"A Life In Google Maps," Catapult (Best American Essays 2017 notable essay)
"The Myth Of The Well-Behaved Women's March," New Republic
"Why Is Male Anger So Threatening?," Dame
"Hunger Makes Me," Hazlitt
"A Midlife Crisis, By Any Other Name," Hazlitt (Best American Essays 2016 notable essay)
"A Warrior Woman's Work," Hazlitt
"I Stole A Pen From Douglas Adams' Grave," Hazlitt
​"Where's My Cut?: On Unpaid Emotional Labor," The Toast
​"The Trouble With Trillian," The Toast
"Misogyny Is Poison, And You're Drinking It," Archipelago

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Fiction & Poetry

"Twisty Little Passages," Catapult
"Never Quiet Again," Catapult
"All The Ways He Won't Die," Catapult
"The Bearded Lady," Paper Darts (2016 Fiction Award winner)
"Love Like Monkeys," Motherboard
​"Trojan Horses," Motherboard
​"Brain Trust," Motherboard
"A Guide To Eating Very Particular Feelings," The Hairpin

• Part I
• Part II
• Part III

"Ways To Be Sad: A Thesaurus," The Hairpin
"Why I Am Not Coming In To Work Today," The Toast

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Features

"'This Goes All The Way To The Queen': The Puzzle Book That Drove England To Madness," Hazlitt
​"The Cocktail At The End Of The Universe," Eater
"A Con Man Reinvents Himself...As A Reality TV Magician," Atlas Obscura
"Alternate Reality Games Could Still Take Over The World (And Your Life)," Atlas Obscura
"C.S. Lewis' Greatest Fiction: Convincing American Kids That They Would Like Turkish Delight," Atlas Obscura
"People Have Been Claiming To Own The Moon For Over 250 Years," Atlas Obscura
"Young Blood," Aeon

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Reviews & Cultural Criticism

"Cloud Atlas v. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," The Morning News
"When Bad Men Define Good Art," Electric Literature
​"Zaphod Beeblebrox for President," Electric Literature
"How to Write a 20,000-Square-Foot Book," Electric Literature
"Haruki Murakami's Lonely Men," New Republic
"Real Women Throw Stones," New Republic
"David Mitchell's Haunted Mansion," New Republic
"'Righteous Fury Helps Me Process': An Interview With Kate Harding," Hazlitt
"Why Are All the Female Characters in the Mad Max Comics So Desperately Half-Assed?" Vulture
"The Turner House v. Our Souls At Night," The Morning News
"In Praise Of Good Omens," Archipelago
Twin Peaks recaps, Vice
Great British Baking Show recaps, Eater

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Opinion

"Endometriosis Is a Real Pain," Dame
"It's Okay If You Didn't Read This Year," Electric Literature
"Let's Just Lie on the Floor and Scream Together," Slate
​"Why Can't Democrats Get Angry?," Slate
"When Men Treat Assault Stories Like Ghost Stories," The Cut
"Dove's Dumb Body Wash Bottles Are An Answer To A Question Nobody Asked," The Washington Post
"It's Time To Give Up On Facts," Slate
"Compassion for Melania is Misguided—But It Isn't Wrong," The Cut
"Highly Recommended: The Great British Bake-Off," Eater
"Twitter's Real Diversity Problem Isn't In Silicon Valley Offices," The Guardian
"We Can't 'Ban Bossy' If Women In Tech Are Being Told To Know Their Role," The Guardian
"Screw Leaning In. It's Time To Slam The Door In Silicon Valley's Face," The Guardian