2018: My Year in Writing
Hey! Here are the things I wrote in 2018. Editors, I would love to write for you in 2019, preferably for money. Please do reach out at ptosiello@gmail.com!
On Bhad Bhabie and her debut mixtape, for Vulture:
On Nas and Kanye West’s NASIR, for FLOOD Magazine:
On Patrick Nathan’s Some Hell, for the Los Angeles Times:
On Lucie Greene’s Silicon States, Cary McClelland’s Silicon City, and San Francisco futurism, for The Outline:
A profile of Henry Canyons, for FLOOD Magazine:
On Rebecca Kauffman’s The Gunners, for the Washington City Paper:
In conversation with One Be Lo, for Passion of the Weiss:
On Anna Yen’s Sophia of Silicon Valley, Dave Eggers’s The Monk of Mokha, shitty techno-capitalist propaganda, and the myths Silicon Valley tells about itself, for The Outline:
On Michael Zadoorian’s Beautiful Music, for The Washington Post:
On Robert Anthony Siegel’s Criminals: My Family’s Life on Both Sides of the Law, for the Los Angeles Review of Books:
A guide to LL Cool J, for Vulture:
On Mike Scalise’s The Brand New Catastrophe, for The Kenyon Review:
A guide to Tha God Fahim’s discography, for Bandcamp Daily:
On Melanie Hobson’s Summer Cannibals, for Full Stop:
On Rebekah Frumkin’s The Comedown, for Full Stop:
On Nico Walker’s Cherry, for the Cleveland Review of Books:
On Menace II Society’s twenty-fifth anniversary, for FLOOD Magazine:
On Henry Canyons’s La Cote West, for Passion of the Weiss:
On Napoleon Da Legend and Giallo Point’s Coup D’Etat, for the Washington City Paper:
On Rahiem Supreme’s Drip Bond, for the Washington City Paper:
On Zilla Rocca’s Future Former Rapper, for Passion of the Weiss:
I also contributed to Passion of the Weiss’s year-end albums and books listicles.