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My Friend Ellis

The Paris Review | Feb. 27, 2024

Geoffrey Mak

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Portrait of the Technocrat as a Stanford Man

New England Review | Nonfiction from NER 44.1 (2023)

Shaan Sachdev

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The New Yorker

My Unlikely Connection to Steely Dan

The New Yorker | Oct. 12, 2022

Chelsea Leu

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What Was Gay?

Slate | May 12, 2015

J. Bryan Lowder

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