Favorite albums of 2025
Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE
Geese - Getting Killed
Goose - Chain Yer Dragon || Everything Must Go
The Beths - Straight Line Was A Lie
Sam Fender - People Watching
Justin Bieber - SWAG || SWAG II
Dijon - Baby
Snocaps - Snocaps
Tyler Childers - Snipe Hunter
My Morning Jacket - is
Lukas Nelson - American Romance
Best live performances I saw in 2025
Will Butler - Joe’s Pub
Father John Misty - Kings Theatre
Goose - MSG || Mann Center
Kevin Morby, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Waxahatche, Lukas Nelson, Flipturn, Bonny Light Horseman, Stephen Wilson Jr., Mt. Joy, Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners - Newport Folk Festival
Tyler Childers - Forest Hills
My Morning Jacket - Brooklyn Paramount
Favorite books of 2025
Shadow Divers - Robert Kurson
American Pastoral - Philip Roth
What’s Cooking in the Kremlin - Witold Szabłowski
Abundance - Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein
All the Worst Humans - Phil Elwood
The Lost City of Z - David Grann
The Gods of New York - Jonathan Mahler
The Rotter’s Club - Jonathan Coe
Lorne - Susan Morrison
Misbelief - Dan Ariely
Best places I ate in 2025
Foul Witch (Manhattan, NY)
Leroy and Lewis (Austin, TX)
Long Ji Zi Char (Singapore)
Dobu (Seoul, South Korea)
Muni (Seoul, South Korea)
Gage and Tollner (Brooklyn, NY)
Dame (Manhattan, NY)
Eleanore (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Hart’s (Brooklyn, NY)
Emmett (Philadelphia, PA)
Theodora (Brooklyn, NY)
