Portfolio
The professional and quasi-professional work of the author—and, therefore, not precisely her protagonist:
Excerpts from a translation of Voltaire’s Candide (full book pdf) (June 2008; independent-study high school French)
“The Beat Generation: A Book Collection for My Generation” (November 2008; Second place, Elmer Adler Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize)
Review: Burroughs & Kerouac, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (January 2009; The Nassau Weekly)
Princeton University’s need for gender-neutral housing (February 2009; The Princeton Progressive Nation)
Grassroots? My [Gr]ass! (April 2009; The Nassau Weekly)
Pilgrimage to Paterson (May 2009; revised from a piece written in JRN/CWR 240)
The Authenticity of the American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, 4,000 more words than Matt Yglesias has ever read before on Hair (May 2009; FRS 162)
Sotomayor as a College Activist (July 2009; Campus Progress)
Looking Beyond Our Borders (August 2009; Campus Progress)
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The amateur work of an authorial avatar from the Internet:
Time for a Little John Donne (5 March 2009)
Anachronisms (5 April 2009)
The “Kink” in “KinkForAll” (27 April 2009)
Happy Birthday, Pete! (3 May 2009)
Suck It, NOM! (14 May 2009)
The Modern Gay Rights Movement Turns 40; or, Continuity and Change (28 June 2009)
Thoughts on the United States of America’s 233rd Birthday (5 July 2009)
Aesthetic of the Week; or, In Which I Go All Cultural Critic on Your Ass (25 July 2009)
Story of My Life (17 August 2009)
High School Movies (29 August 2009)
Sunshine, and Metaphors Involving It (10 September 2009)
The Alternate Frenzy and Calm of Routine; or, A Little About My Daily Life (2 October 2009)
Costumes; or, I Actually Made it Through This Post Without Saying “Performativity” (10 October 2009)
Even Princeton; or, This is What Democracy Looks Like! (11 October 2009)
Loving and Being; or, My Antonia Is Totally Relevant to 21st-Century Adolescents (17 October 2009)
