On the Page is a San Francisco–based literary magazine featuring fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and photography. As senior editor, I wrote essays and film and book reviews, recruited contributors, edited submissions, and supported production, distribution, and promotional events. I also represented the magazine publicly, including as a featured reader at Litquake. Three themed issues I worked on—Unfinished Business, Shared Spaces, and Faith, Luck, & Chance—are available online.

Here’s an excerpt from a film review that appeared in the Shared Spaces issue:

In “Imperial Bedroom,” Jonathan Franzen’s How to Be Alone essay addressing the blurring line between the public and the private in modern society, the author explains his chosen title this way: “In a coast-to-coast, shag-carpeted imperial bedroom, we could all just be messes and save ourselves the trouble of pretending. But who wants to live in a pajama-party world?” // Pajama-party world—the phrase brings to mind a certain casualness, an intimacy, a degree of exposure and shared experience that Lukas Moodysson brilliantly evokes in the Swedish film Together, released in 2000. Here the pajama party takes place in a collective in Stockholm in 1975, where meat and Christmas are not allowed but highly vocal sex with a man not your husband is; where Pippi Longstocking is decried as a capitalist, and the sudden appearance of a television in the living room is seen as a fine reason to move out.

Read the full review, and my essay on “ghost films.”