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I am a writer, editor, and writing instructor with over 10 years of experience. Currently, I am a regular contributor to VeryWell Health and Health.com, as well as a remote adjunct instructor and writing coach at George Washington University's School of Medical and Health Sciences. As a health writer, my work has been featured in Men's Health and What's Good by V (Vitamin Shoppe's Blog), and Different Leaf. Previous experiences include content copy and design for Nobilis Health Corp and drafting white papers for Humana Insurance.
Outside of health and medicine, my book reviews, music reviews, and essays have appeared in other publications, including The Rumpus, The Culture Crush, Stamens Pistils Parties, Post-Trash, and others. In addition, I have completed writing and editing assignments for other clients, including Princeton Review and Rizzoli.
2016 saw the publication of my first book of poetry, Everybody's Automat (The Operating System, 2016). In addition, from 2015-7, I served as the Reviews Editor for New York-based literary magazine, Boog City. I live in Western Massachusetts with my wife and cats and play in a post-punk band called Teen Driver.
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Have you ever really thought about your posture or the way you move your body? Does that little voice in your head ever chime in to remind you to stand up straight? Unless you're an athlete, model, dancer, or actor, it's unlikely that the positioning of your body is on your mind too often (unless or until you're actually experiencing pain or discomfort, that is).
Essays, Reviews & Interviews
On gossamer threads of swirling, arpeggiated guitar lines, synth layers, driving bass, and tight four-on-the-floor drums, All Feels' This Place Is A Message stakes out territory we should find familiar in 2024, depicting the anxiety of facing collapses both personal and environmental.
It's all too easy to flatten a figure like Joni Mitchell, to take for granted her peerless body of work, her constant drive, the way her words can ache and cut, sway and celebrate. On the other side of the 20th century, she seems to have always been around-a beacon to whole generations of inventive musicians and performers: from Mitski, St.
Written by Mark Gurarie Accelerating through a landscape of collapsing, parasitic social media conglomerates, as well as a fractured record industry and its hype cycles, with tires on fire and leaving tread, the Wolfmanhattan Project emerges like the beautiful bastard grandchildren of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Bo Didley, and Robert Johnson they are.
An essay about the rise of post-punk music in today's Russia and other post-Soviet countries, drawing lines between Manchester/New York in the 70s, and the cultural landscape in cities like Moscow, St. Petersburg, Minsk and others today.
A review of Amy Lawless's My Dead.
