Writing

Books

Grant Us Eyes: The Art of Paradox in Bloodborne (Tune & Fairweather, 2025)
https://www.tuneandfairweather.com/blogs/news/introducing-grant-us-eyes-the-art-of-paradox-in-bloodborne



Academic Writing (Limited Access)

“Mere Light” (co-written with Bryan Counter; Textual Practice, 2024)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0950236X.2024.2379173

“Photomimesis and the Anti-Aesthetic” (Textual Practice, 2024)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0950236X.2024.2379182

“Faulkner’s Glitches” (Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 2023)
https://read.dukeupress.edu/novel/article-abstract/56/1/85/358388/Faulkner-s-Glitches?redirectedFrom=fulltext

“Unformed Art: Bad Writing in the Modernist Novel” (Dissertation, Stanford University, 2020)
Link: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Unformed_Art/uuyizQEACAAJ?hl=en



Public Writing

“Postlapsarian Homesick Alien” [on Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye] (American Book Review, 2025)
Link: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/950871

“15 Kills: Solid Perry, The Phantom Pain, Performance” (Cartridge Lit, 2023)
Link: https://cartridgelit.com/2023/05/24/15-kills/

“Game Wonder: On FromSoftware’s ‘Bloodborne’ and H. P. Lovecraft’s ‘The Haunter of the Dark’” (Los Angeles Review of Books, 2023)
Link: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/game-wonder-on-fromsoftwares-bloodborne-and-h-p-lovecrafts-the-haunter-of-the-dark/

“Wind and Atmosphere in Bloodborne” (Venti, Response to “Up in the Air” Question Four, 2023)
Link: https://www.venti-journal.com/question-four

“Repetition, with a Difference: On ‘Deathloop’” (Los Angeles Review of Books, 2021)
Link: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/repetition-with-a-difference-on-deathloop/

“Bugs and Features: On Video Game Glitches and Interpretation” (Los Angeles Review of Books, 2021)
Link: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/bugs-and-features-on-video-game-glitches-and-interpretation/

“Can a Video Game Express Modernist Values?” (Los Angeles Review of Books, 2020)
Link: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/can-a-video-game-express-modernist-values/


Book Manuscripts in Progress

Bad Writing in the Modernist Novel
(manuscript under review)

Aboutness: A Critical History

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