A few pieces of text and audio that I’ve done in recent years.

Audio

The Dreamer (October 2020) - David Ben Shabat hates being called a prophet. As he sees it, he’s just a guy who stumbled upon a deep truth and wants to share it with the people. But, come to think of it, isn’t that precisely the definition of a prophet? Reported over the course of 14 months, “The Dreamer” explores one man’s attempts to change the course of history and create a better life for Israelis and Palestinians.

Creative Writing

Flight Paths (The New Journal at Yale, 2017) - Ornithologists estimate there are about 400 million pigeons worldwide, of which more than 60 million—or about 15 percent—are domesticated racing pigeons. And rearing these 60 million are somewhere around 1.2 million breeders (or, as the cohort prefer to be called, “pigeon fanciers”). This is the story of one man, his pigeons, and the curious bond between human, bird, and home.

Stories of the Body (The Yale Herald, 2017) - In 2015, I sat in a doctor's office in Houston and managed to string together, for the first time, the story of my illness. In the preceding year, I had shuttled sporadically between doctors' offices in Connecticut, Colorado, and at home in Texas, looking for an answer to what was making me sick. As my symptoms got worse, I attempted to explain to one doctor, and then the next, and then the next, why my pain was worth investigating. Each time, I left feeling like I had been cast aside. This is the piece that came out of that ordeal. It's a story of my body, the history of American medicine, and the ways we talk about pain.

The Dream is Very Much Alive (The Yale Daily News, 2015) - Is social mobility a reality for Yale's lowest-income students? Comic artist Madeleine Witt and I interrogated this question by crunching numbers, interviewing past and present students, and talking to sociologists about the complicated role that an undergraduate education does or doesn't play in social mobility.