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  • Funeral Service Insider Podcast

    Tune into the Funeral Service Insider podcast for my conversation on American graves, cemetery tours, human remains in museums, and more. Listen here!

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  • Manhole Cover Zine

    I collaborated with my friend Bronwyn Hazelwood on a brand new zine: Manhole Covers: The World Underfoot! It brings together my photos and writing about manhole covers I’ve seen around the world with Bronwyn’s illustrations, all to celebrate the humble art of utilitarian design. You can pick up a copy here!

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  • Cemetery Magazine Profile

    American Cemetery & Cremation magazine profiled me in their latest issue, in which I talk all about my thoughts on the grave! We cover zines, tour guiding, and why I wanted to do a cemetery book tour.

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  • Harlem at the Met

    I wrote a preview for the Art Newspaper on the new Harlem Renaissance exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. Read here about how it came together, particularly through loans from traditionally Black colleges that collected works that major institutions overlooked.

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  • Online Talk with the Last Tuesday Society

    I’m excited to be kicking off the Last Tuesday Society’s Supernatural Mystery Symposium, an online series curated by Shannon Taggart that brings together talks that were part of last summer’s event in the Spiritualist community of Lily Dale, New York. I’ll be speaking on March 3 about the future of the grave, with many fantastic…

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  • Winter Issue of Fine Books & Collections

    The winter issue of Fine Books & Collections magazine—a publication I started editing last year—is out now! I’m proud of how this one came together with a wide range of stories that explore the diverse world of books and collecting. Pick up a copy here (love live print!). I also contributed a short piece about…

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  • Review in the Christian Century

    Jessica Mesman at the Christian Century wrote a review of Grave that you can check out here. She kindly calls it “a digestible history and literary tour of American funerary practices, but it’s not just that. It’s also a case for the dignity of the human person beyond death and a call to keep the…

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  • AI for Museum Storytelling

    I covered a new project at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans that is using AI to engage visitors with oral histories of veterans and others who served during the conflict. Read the story online and in print with the Art Newspaper.

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  • Online talk with Arnos Vale

    On March 13, 2024, I’ll be joining Arnos Vale Cemetery in Bristol for an online talk about the grave’s transformation. Get tickets here!

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  • BBC Radio Interview

    This October, I joined the Thinking Allowed radio program from the BBC to talk about the history of the grave. Give it a listen as part of a fascinating lineup that also includes a conversation about memorial benches!

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  • Brooklyn Arcadia book out now!

    I contributed four essays to the beautiful new Brooklyn Arcadia: Art, History, and Nature at Majestic Green-Wood book published by Rizzoli. It features Andrew Garn’s photographs of Green-Wood Cemetery across the seasons. Pick up a copy now! I also joined Andrew for a radio interview timed with the book on WNYC’s All Of It program.

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