2021: My Year in Writing
Wrote a lot this year, still working on it. If you’d like to chat about my work, assignments, or anything else really, I’m at ptosiello@gmail.com. Cheers.
On Benny the Butcher’s The Plugs I Met 2 (Pitchfork):
On the new, non-populist poptimism (DIRT):
On Peter Heller’s The Guide (The New York Times Book Review):
On Wiki’s Half God and marking time in Dimes Square (Laid Off NYC):
On Dario Diofebi’s Paradise, Nevada (The Washington Post):
On AZ’s Doe or Die II (Pitchfork):
On Ratboys’ Happy Birthday, Ratboy (Pitchfork):
On Conway the Machine’s If It Bleeds It Can Be Killed (Pitchfork):
On Nyck Caution’s Anywhere But Here (Pitchfork):
On Samia’s Scout (Pitchfork):
On beabadoobee’s Our Extended Play (Pitchfork):
On HRSMN’s The Last Ride (Pitchfork):
On Ol’ Burger Beats & Vuyo’s Dialogue (Pitchfork):
On Third Eye Blind’s Our Bande Apart (Pitchfork):
On Kipp Stone’s Faygo Baby (Pitchfork):
On Lukah’s Why Look Up, God’s in the Mirror (Pitchfork):
On Knowledge the Pirate’s Hidden Treasure (Pitchfork):
On Freddie deBoer on Jia Tolentino (Medium):
On deBoer on Tolentino
Who can afford to be ambitious when all we have is posting?
tosiello.medium.com
On DMX (Passion of the Weiss):
On Boldy James’s Real Bad Boldy (Pitchfork):
On Contour’s Love Suite (Pitchfork):
“Fulfillment Center,” a short story (HASH Journal):
On Pink Siifu & Fly Anakin’s $mokebreak (Pitchfork):
In conversation with NOLAN (Passion of the Weiss):
On the MTA’s “Voices of the Subway” (Laid Off NYC):
On Dijon’s “Many Times,” for Pitchfork’s 100 Best Songs of 2021:
On Bruiser Wolf’s Dope Game Stupid and Akeem Ali’s Mack in the Day Starring Keemy Casanova, for Passion of the Weiss’s Best Albums of 2021:
