2022: My Year in Writing
2022. A good year for some, a bad year for most. As in years past, I wrote a lot of music criticism for Pitchfork, and reviewed a few books. I had longer essays published in The New York Times Magazine and Gawker, which was cool.
As a freelancer, I’m always eager for new bylines. To any editors interested in my writing: I’m good with deadlines, I file clean copy, and I’m handsome in an angular way. Are you that somebody? I’m at ptosiello@gmail.com.
On Law & Order’s response to the police reform movement (The New York Times Magazine):
On Feral City and the politics of municipal collapse (Gawker):
On Zain Khalid’s Brother Alive (The New York Times Book Review):
On Nas’s Magic (Pitchfork):
On Wiki & Subjxct 5’s Cold Cuts (Pitchfork):
On Westside Gunn’s Peace “Fly” God (Passion of the Weiss):
On Rome Streetz’s Kiss the Ring (Pitchfork):
On Michelle Branch’s The Trouble with Fever (Pitchfork):
On Jensen McRae’s Are You Happy Now? (Pitchfork):
On Brockhampton’s The Family (Pitchfork):
On Meyhem Lauren & Daringer’s Black Vladimir (Pitchfork):
On Jay Worthy & Harry Fraud’s You Take the Credit, We’ll Take the Check (Pitchfork):
On Ivy Sole’s Candid (Pitchfork):
On Koreatown Oddity’s ISTHISFORREAL? (Pitchfork):
On Jordana’s Face the Wall (Pitchfork):
On Smitty & witSmusic’s Eat Your Food (Pitchfork):
On OutKast’s ATLiens (Pitchfork):
On Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s “Tha Crossroads,” Camp Lo’s “Luchini AKA This Is It,” and Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth’s “They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)” (Pitchfork):
On Oso Oso’s “Computer Exploder” (Pitchfork):
On Yaya Bey’s Remember Your North Star (Passion of the Weiss):
