Working at Morbid Anatomy’s Proteus Gowanus space in 2013
Northwest Know-How: Haunts // Sasquatch Books
The Extraordinary Body of Evatima Tardo // Wellcome Collection
The Nondescript (fiction) // The Ghastling
Possessed (essay/fiction) // The Happy Reader
Gray // Wildsam Field Guides, Seattle edition
Uncertainty Bootcamp // Seattle Met Magazine
The Pioneering Health Officer Who Saved Portland From the Plague // Smithsonian Magazine
What Should You Wear to Your Funeral? Future of Death // Considerable
Death Is Forever. Cemeteries, as They Currently Exist, Might Not Be Future of Death // Considerable
Mary Shelley’s Obsession With the Cemetery JSTOR Daily
How Jeremy Bentham Finally Came to America, Nearly 200 Years After His Death Mental Floss
“Lives on Show, Bodies Behind Glass: Julia Pastrana’s Parallels in Museum Collections” in The Eye of the Beholder: Julia Pastrana’s Long Journey Home
A Brief History of American Anatomy Riots The National Museum of Civil War Medicine
A Brief History of Medical Cannibalism Lapham’s Quarterly Roundtable
What Do the Scary Clowns Want? The New York Times
The Legend (and Truth) of the Voodoo Priestess Who Haunts a Louisiana Swamp Mental Floss
9 Behind-the-Scenes Secrets of Haunted Houses Mental Floss
How New Yorkers Became Convinced That Dinosaur Bones Were Buried in Central Park Atlas Obscura
The Woman Who Held Hitler’s Teeth Broadly/Vice
“Death Doulas” Are Helping Americans Savor the Last Days of Their Lives Quartz
The World’s Strangest Radio Broadcasts Mental Floss
The Eccentric British Headmaster Who Never Existed Mental Floss
Islands of the Undesirables series: Roosevelt Island, Randall’s and Wards Islands, Hart Island Atlas Obscura
The Time a Salvador Dali Painting Was Stolen From Rikers Island Mental Floss
The Secret History of the Pencil Mental Floss
Einstein’s Brain Heist: Why Are We So Obsessed with Famous Dead Bodies? Slate
The 20 Best Small Towns to Visit in 2015 Smithsonian Magazine
No One Really Knows What a Shamrock Is Smithsonian Magazine
How SkyMall Captured a Moment of Technological and American History Smithsonian Magazine
The Wee Hours Lapham’s Quarterly Roundtable
The Photographer Who Ansel Adams Called the Anti-Christ Smithsonian Magazine
Julia Pastrana: A “Monster to the Whole World” The Public Domain Review
Why Beheading is “The Ultimate Tyranny” Boston Globe
The Doctor Who Starved Her Patients to Death Smithsonian Magazine
The London Graveyard That’s Become a Memorial for the City’s Seedier Past Smithsonian Magazine
The Ten Crimes That Shook Seattle Seattle Met
Trap Streets: Copyrighting Cartography with Fictional Places Atlas Obscura
The Gory New York City Riot that Shaped American Medicine Smithsonian Magazine
Maude Paris Review Daily
Meet Grandison Harris, the Grave Robber Enslaved (and Then Employed) by the Georgia College of Medicine Smithsonian Magazine
The Graves of Forgotten New Yorkers The New York Times
How the Ouija Board Got Its Name Atlas Obscura
25 Objects that Changed Seattle Seattle Met
A Grave Matter: That Time We Exhumed Lee Harvey Oswald’s Body to See if He was a Soviet Assassin Slate
Body Snatchers of Old New York Lapham’s Quarterly Roundtable
Waiting for Houdini to Escape from Death Atlas Obscura
The Scattered Bones of Christopher Columbus Lapham’s Quarterly Roundtable
The Horrors of Premature Burial Atlas Obscura
Fond Farewells: A Reconsideration of The American Way of Death Lapham’s Quarterly
How Did Bits of Percy Shelley’s Skull End Up in the New York Public Library? Atlas Obscura
Cremation is On the Rise, But Where To Put the Ashes? Time Ideas
Why So Much Controversy over Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s Corpse? The Guardian
Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s Unwanted Body: Where Other Notorious Criminals Are Buried Time Ideas
Field Notes, The Double World: One Man’s Search for Meaning in the Seattle Public Library The Appendix
The Madam Who Turned to Stone The Stranger
The Rise in Exhumations The New York Times
The Dead Have Something to Tell You The New York Times
The Arctic Club’s Most Famous Tenant Seattle Met
Where Are They Now: Dictators Edition (PDF) Boston Globe Ideas, November 2011
A Measure of Mystery: Where Our Words for Mass, Weight, and Distance Come From (PDF) Boston Globe Word column, October 2011
A Deck Of Cards And A Golden Whistle: Grave Goods Of The Stars (PDF) The Believer, March 2011
Experimenting with Drugs Cover feature on Vancouver’s safe-injection site (Winner of a Society of Professional Journalists Excellence Award), The Stranger, June 2003
Invisible Literature: Wayde Compton Discovers the Unmapped Territory of Black British Columbia The Stranger, May 2002
Research and writing:
2005-2010: Five editions of Schott’s Almanac
Research:
iHeart Radio podcasts
Scott Rudin productions
Schott’s Vocab (NYT.com blog)
Toponymity: An Atlas of Words by John Bemelmans Marciano
Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words by John Bemelmans Marciano
Whatever Happened to the Metric System?: How America Kept Its Feet by John Bemelmans Marciano
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