Pete Tosiello // writer // New York
I'm a New York-based freelance writer. I mostly write about pop music and books. Sometimes I write about tech, labor, and politics.
My criticism, reportage, and interviews have appeared in The New York Times, Pitchfork, The Paris Review, Gawker, The Washington Post, Vulture, and the Los Angeles Times. My short fiction has appeared in Hash Journal.
You can subscribe to my periodic Substack dispatches and follow me on Twitter.
Selected writing:
Essays
on Law & Order's response to the police reform movement (The New York Times Magazine)
on Feral City and the politics of municipal collapse (Gawker)
on the new, non-populist poptimism (Dirt)
on Half God and marking time in the Lower East Side (Laid Off NYC)
Music
on Naughty By Nature's 19NaughtyIII (Pitchfork)
on Nas's King's Disease III (Passion of the Weiss)
on Jensen McRae's Are You Happy Now? (Pitchfork)
on Westside Gunn's Peace "Fly" God (Passion of the Weiss)
on Michelle Branch's The Trouble With Fever (Pitchfork)
on Rome Streetz's Kiss the Ring (Pitchfork)
on Benny the Butcher's The Plugs I Met 2 (Pitchfork)
on Nas's Magic (Pitchfork)
on Brockhampton's The Family (Pitchfork)
on Bruce Hornsby's Non-Secure Connection (Pitchfork)
on Nyck Caution's Anywhere But Here (Pitchfork)
Books
on Zain Khalid's Brother Alive (The New York Times Book Review)
on Peter Heller's The Guide (The New York Times Book Review)
on Dario Diofebi's Paradise, Nevada (The Washington Post)
on Emma Glass's Rest and Be Thankful (The Washington Post)
on Chip Cheek's Cape May (The Kenyon Review)
on Lynn Steger Strong's Want (The Washington Post)
on Karen Dukess's The Last Book Party (The Washington Post)
on Patrick Nathan's Some Hell (Los Angeles Times)
on Steve Anwyll's Welfare (The Washington Post)
Interviews
Anna Wiener (The Paris Review)
Alexandrea Ravenelle (The Outline)
Rebecca Kauffman (Guernica)
One Be Lo (Passion of the Weiss)
O.C. (Bandcamp Daily)
B.G. Firmani (Los Angeles Review of Books)
