Writing Links

Here is an archive of my humor pieces and other articles:

What I Would Tell My Five-Year-Old… Trump Announcing Run for President in 2024 (11/16/22) / McSweeney’s

I’m Sorry, but I, the Tooth Fairy, Am Still Not Comfortable Returning to In-Person Work (7/15/21) / McSweeney’s

Just A Few Things Your Child Will Need for Today’s Classes (11/25/20) / Wry Times

My Failed Rally to Keep Schools Closed (7/29/20) / Wry Times

Safe Distance Summer Camp (5/17/20) / Medium

Update on the Grocery Delivery We Fooled You Into Expecting (4/15/20) / McSweeney’s

Can My Son Get More Worksheets Before the World Ends (3/30/20) / McSweeney’s

My New Breathing App (2/4/20) / Medium

It’s Finally Time for Me, James Garfield, to Enter the Presidential Race (11/15/19) / Medium

If Board Game Titles Were Honest (January 2019) / Parents

What the School Photographer Said (11/28/18) / McSweeney’s

Out of Reach (9/21/18) / Proto

The Craziest Official Tech Startup History You Will Ever Read (2/2/18) / MarketWatch

Dear Son, I’m Sorry (12/2/17) / Medium

Year of the Rooster (book released November 2017)

Welcome to Riley’s Third Birthday Party (10/4/17) / Razed

[Interview] How to Become a Harvard-Law-Trained Novelist (2/22/17) / Vault

[News] NBC Developing The Curve for TV (9/7/16) / Variety

Winning the News (Re)Cycle (7/5/16) / Barnes & Noble Review

[Review] Fast Times at Fake Law School (6/13/16) / Above the Law

Code Breaker (5/3/16) / Barnes & Noble Review

Alter Lego (3/23/16) / Barnes & Noble Review

Stop Trying To Teach Your Fetus To Read (2/17/16) / The Reject Pile

Elephant in the Room (2/3/16) / Barnes & Noble Review

Less is More (12/4/15) / Barnes & Noble Review

Foolproof Ways to Get Your Child to Wear Socks (11/12/15) / McSweeney’s

Freud Chicken (11/4/15) / Barnes & Noble Review

Hey, Dads: Come to Music Class (10/14/15) / Medium

Pregnant Paws (9/9/15) / Barnes & Noble Review

Flight Risks (8/26/15) / Barnes & Noble Review

Car Seat Installation Guide (7/15/15) / Barnes & Noble Review

A Toddler’s Guide to the Perfect Vacation (7/14/15) / Medium

Our Nut-Free, Gluten-Free, Adult-Free Nursery School (6/10/15) / The Reject Pile

Don’t Read All About It (5/13/15) / Barnes & Noble Review

There Are No Egos In Our Knitting Group (4/28/15) / McSweeney’s

Spring TV Preview (3/25/15) / Barnes & Noble Review

Death by One Thousand Beeps (3/17/15) / Quartz

Pantsuits1947@AOL.COM (3/4/15) / Barnes & Noble Review

Brooklyn Syndrome (2/25/15) / Barnes & Noble Review

Real Pages from Real Children’s Books (2/19/15) / Medium

A Baby’s Guide to Sleep-Training Your Parents (2/3/15) / Medium

Paradesk (2/3/15) / Barnes & Noble Review

The Future of Taxicabs (1/1/15) / Contributoria

Parenting: A Dad’s Year in Review (12/5/14) / Medium

An Early Review of the iPhone 74 (11/1/14) / Contributoria

KC At the Bat (10/15/14) / FanGraphs

An Oral History of the Citi Field Fences (10/14/14) / FanGraphs

Can Insects Learn to Love Eating Us? (10/1/14) / Contributoria

Please Let Me Put My Hands All Over Your Baby (9/15/14) / McSweeney’s

The New Golf (9/2/14) / Barnes & Noble Review

Having a Premature Baby Turned Me Into a Lunatic (8/23/14) / Medium

Food, Now Everywhere (8/22/14) / Barnes & Noble Review

Some Ideas for the Makers of Soylent (8/1/14) / Contributoria

Ten Travel Websites You Won’t Be Seeing Soon (7/21/14) / Beacon

Announcing Wordzleybux (7/1/14) / Contributoria

How One Trip to the Airport Made Me a Feminist (6/8/14) / Medium

Selfie Improvement (6/2/14) / Barnes & Noble Review

What my Seven-Month-Old Son Knows About Fantasy Baseball (5/6/14) / FanGraphs

Amazing New Imaginary Contraptions for Your Not-Imaginary Baby (5/1/14) / Contributoria

There’s a Snatcherblot in my Catcherslot (4/23/14) / FanGraphs

We Apologize for the Cornfusion (4/15/14) / Beacon

Join My Children’s Book Club (4/2/14)  / Beacon

Your Baby’s Klout Score is in the 25th Percentile (3/27/14) / McSweeney’s

The Meditation Room (3/25/14) / Beacon

SAT Out (3/11/14) / Barnes & Noble Review

Energy Saving Tips to Reduce Your Electric Bill (3/5/14) / Beacon

The FitBit Brute Force Wristband (2/25/14) / Beacon

Flu Season Survival Tips (2/19/14) / Beacon

Trash Talk (2/18/14) / Barnes & Noble Review

CVS to Stop Selling Everything (2/8/14) / Beacon

Scapedogs (2/3/14) / Barnes & Noble Review

Chris Christie: Toilet Paper (2/1/14) / Beacon

Surprise, It’s That Thing We Think You Want (1/24/14) / Beacon

PurseMed (1/13/14) / Barnes & Noble Review

This Preposterously Inexpensive Discount Bus (1/13/14) / Beacon

It’s Not About Christmas, It’s Just About a Tree (1/6/14) / Medium

A Reluctant Welcome to our Holiday Party (1/4/14) / Beacon

My Year of Mistakes (12/29/13) / Beacon

When You’re On Top, You Can Have a Beard (12/16/13) / Beacon

Your Workplace Holiday Party (12/16/13) / Barnes & Noble Review

The Mystery of Pumpkin Spice (12/9/13) / Beacon

Son, my smartphone isn’t actually attached to my hand (11/9/13) / Medium

Adopt-a-Highway (10/28/13) / Barnes & Noble Review

Thank You for Inspiring Me To Steal My Wife’s Breast Milk (10/25/13) / Medium

Y Combinator Combinator 2014 (10/17/13) / Medium

The Maximum Security Children’s Zoo and Concert Hall (9/27/13) / Medium

Why I Need My Gun at Starbucks (9/20/13) / Medium

The Writing Business (9/16/13) / Barnes & Noble Review

Underground, Illegal, and Delicious (9/13/13) / Medium

Entirely Real Writing Contests and Submission Opportunities (9/6/13) / Medium

I Spent an Hour Away From the Internet (8/30/13) / Medium

A Note About Our Zoo (8/22/13) / Medium

The Anti-Semitic Urine Collector (8/21/13) / FanGraphs

Novelist: The Video Game (8/16/13) / Medium

Our Terrible Nanny is Available Starting Immediately (8/5/13) / McSweeney’s

The Anthony Weiner Crisis Management Consulting Firm (8/1/13) / Medium

Best Video Games of 1635 (7/27/13) / Medium

Sex on Campus: Dear Mom (7/19/13) / Medium

Announcing my Candidacy for Comptroller (7/10/13) / Medium

The Foie Gras Fountain is in Conference Room B (7/5/13) / Medium

Brand New, Recently Renovated (7/1/13) / Barnes & Noble Review

[INTERN, GIVE THIS HUMOR PIECE A TITLE] (6/24/13) / Barnes & Noble Review

An Important Security Update About Your Microwave (6/20/13) / Medium

“Who’s on First,” 2013 Edition (6/18/13) / FanGraphs

FAQ About Our Destination Wedding (6/12/13) / Medium

Non-GMO? Non-OMG! (6/7/13) / Medium

Welcome to the Thrifty Inn (6/3/13) / Barnes & Noble Review

Throwing Out Tonight’s First Pitch… (5/29/13) / FanGraphs

Anonymous Billionaire: The Land of Ice (5/16/13) / Lusso

The Puppy Diet (5/4/13) / Medium

Work from H.O.M.E. (5/3/13) / McSweeney’s

Greetings from Your Soon-to-be Realtor (4/29/13) / Medium

Belly Rub (4/25/13) / Barnes & Noble Review

Please Consider The Environment Before You Print This Humor Piece (4/22/13) / Medium

I Have So Many People To Thank… (4/19/13) / The Millions

About Our Serious News Magazine’s Hip New Redesign, Yo. (4/16/13) / Medium

Pardon the Construction (3/25/13) / Splitsider

Artisanal Preservington, New York (3/14/13) / Barnes & Noble Review

Rest of the Fests (2/28/13) (Maura Magazine)

“My Grandmother Reviews Her Medication ” (2/27/13) / theNewerYork

Frequently Asked Questions about Girl Scout Cookies (2/21/13) / HuffPo

How To Internet For Writers (2/7/13) / The Bygone Bureau

Friends, Classmates, Donors (1/30/13) / Barnes & Noble Review

Uncle Gets a Name (1/30/13) / Kveller

My Girlfriend (A Manti Te’o Satire) (1/25/13) / HuffPo

Weather or Not (1/16/13) / The Big Jewel

Top New Friend Prospects (2013) (1/16/13) / FanGraphs

2013 eBook Preview (1/15/13) / Barnes & Noble Review

Your Workplace Holiday Party (12/19/12) / Barnes & Noble Review

Temple Beth El Dorado: Chanukah Edition (12/6/12)

Cabin Pressure (11/26/12) / Barnes & Noble Review

Thank You For Being My Health Care Proxy (10/31/12) / The Bygone Bureau

A Friendly Change To Our Access Policy (10/29/12) / FeatherTale

Horses, Bayonets, Cannonballs, and Sharp, Pointy Rocks (10/24/12) / HuffPo

Binders Literally Full of Actual Women (10/22/12) / HuffPo

Temple Beth El Dorado: Real G-d. Fake Synagogue. (10/19/12)

Entering The Academy (10/2/12) / Barnes & Noble Review

The iMop 5 (9/24/12) / HuffPo

Tying the Interfaith Knot (9/24/12) / Barnes & Noble Review

Todd Akin, Chief of Police (8/22/12) / HuffPo

Uncle Changes Diaper (8/15/12) / Kveller

Tastes of New York (8/13/12) / Barnes & Noble Review

Subscription Optional (7/18/12) / Defenestration

Great Vacation Rental Available (7/9/12) / McSweeney’s

Portion Control (6/27/12) / Barnes & Noble Review

“Great Players Don’t Need A Psychiatrist” (6/25/12) / FanGraphs

Sunday Routine (6/3/12) / The Nervous Breakdown

A Note on the Paper (6/1/12)  / The Millions

Fetch the Remote (5/29/12) / Barnes & Noble Review

Sorry– My Personal Website Is Now Behind A Paywall  (5/10/12) / McSweeney’s

MLB TeeVee: Park Factors and Recreation  (5/7/12) / FanGraphs

8 Fake Online Games More Pointless Than “Sheep Invaders” (5/3/12) / MindHut

New Patient Information (4/27/12) / The Bygone Bureau

I Can Explain (4/16/12) / Barnes & Noble Review

Mike Daisey’s Stories from the Campaign Trail (4/5/12) / The Nervous Breakdown

Killer Read (4/3/12) / The Millions

Chinese vs. French Parenting, as discussed by an awful Book Club (3/30/12) / Thought Catalog

The Uncle and the Baby Take Manhattan (3/16/12) / Kveller

We Book You Writer (3/5/12) / Barnes & Noble Review

PaleyFest Television Panel Bingo (3/2/12)  / LA Weekly

These Are A Few of Mitt’s Favorite Things… (2/24/12) / The New Republic

Butterscotch Dust (2/13/12) / Barnes & Noble Review

What Happens in Ittoqqortoormiit Stays in Ittoqqortoormiit (2/6/12) / Splitsider

Burn Notice (2/6/12) / Barnes & Noble Review

The Creepiness of Pandora’s Music Recommendations (2/1/12) / The Bygone Bureau

Thank You, Small Section of this Country… (1/23/12) / McSweeney’s

Fact-Checking the Candidates on… Everything (12/22/11) / The New Republic

Carmageddon: The Unproduced Screenplay (7/14/11) / LA Weekly

Technology-Enabled Congressional Sex Scandals of the Future (7/8/11) / McSweeney’s

London Set Paris Match (July 2011) / Lusso

Before You Take This Medication (4/4/11) / McSweeney’s

Anonymous Millionaire (Dec 2010) / Lusso

One Bedroom Thirteen and a Half Baths (9/21/10) / McSweeney’s

Memo to Synagogue Membership (Jan-Feb 2010) / Moment

The Anonymous Lawyer on Law Firm Bonuses (11/5/09) / The Wall Street Journal

The 51st Best Law Firm for Women (8/12/09) / The Wall Street Journal

The Anonymous Lawyer’s Law Firm Layoff Memo (8/6/09) / The Wall Street Journal

Welcome to the Law, One Ls (8/31/07) / The Wall Street Journal

A New Law School Curriculum (11/15/06) / The Wall Street Journal

The Free Meal Appeal (WSJ.com) (8/17/06) / The Wall Street Journal

The Anonymous Lawyer on the Dreaded Bar Exam (7/13/06) / The Wall Street Journal

A Christmas Carol (Dec 2007) / Fort Salem Theater

The Holiday Brief: A Jewish Lawyer’s Survival Guide (Feb 2007) / Moment

Job Posting (8/31/05) / The New York Times

Spring Training Chat, 2032 (2/27/12) / FanGraphs

New Rules for Fantasy Baseball (1/19/12) / FanGraphs

Strawman Sportswriter’s Hall of Fame Ballot (1/9/12) / FanGraphs

Oakland A’s Trades of the Future (12/29/11) / FanGraphs

All Your Prospect Questions, Answered (12/19/11) / FanGraphs

Bud Selig’s Dream Realignment Scenario (11/22/11) / FanGraphs

Errata: 2011 World Series (11/10/11) / FanGraphs

Your Favorite Team’s Top Five Prospects (11/7/11) / FanGraphs

Fantasy Mailbag: Rejected Questions (10/31/11) / FanGraphs

Fantasy Baseball Purity Test (10/13/11) / FanGraphs

Revealing The Soul of a Soulless Lawyer (NY Times, 12/26/04)

Virtually Fiction (Harvard Gazette)

Time’s 50 Coolest Websites 2005

Anonymous Lawyer Has Fun With The Firm (USA TODAY)

Anonymous Lawyer in Development for Television with Sony and NBC (The Futon Critic)

Interview With Jeremy Blachman (New York Inquirer)

Anonymous Law Firm parody law firm website

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