Hey, I’m Cat! I’m a Brooklyn-based critic who covers books, TV, movies, and music at The Cut. Previously I was an associate editor at Pitchfork, where I edited reviews and wrote widely across the site. In 2022, I received the American Society of Magazine Editors’ Next Award for Journalists Under 30.
Pitchfork
- Review of Caroline Polachek’s Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
- Review of Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts
- Review of Mitski’s The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
- Review of Water From Your Eyes’ Everyone’s Crushed
- Review of Boygenius’ The Record
- Profile of Yaeji ahead of her debut album With a Hammer
- Deep dive into music fandom on Discord
- Sunday Review of Kesha’s 2010 debut, Animal
- Essay about Imogen Heap’s longstanding influence
- Feature about the meaning of “Asian American music”
- Feature about city pop and the Western imagination of Japan
Select other
- New York Fungus Festival scene report (New York Times)
- Short profile of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research (New York Times)
- Trend story on the rise of fan edits online (New York Times)
- Profile of comedian Jamie Loftus (New Yorker)
- Review of Esther Yi’s novel Y/N (Vulture)
- Review of Sheena Patel’s novel I’m A Fan (Washington Post)
- Review of Awkwafina’s sitcom Nora from Queens (The Cut)
- Analysis of “TikTok Face” (Real Life)
- Look at the Instagram gossip site Deuxmoi (Real Life)
- Interview with TikTok fashion forecaster OldLoserInBrooklyn (Vice)
Appearances
I’ve been a guest on the New York Times’ Popcast, NPR’s All Things Considered, Slate’s ICYMI, Vulture’s Switched on Pop, and the Pitchfork Review. Netflix subscribers can find me on season 3, episode 11 of the Vox docuseries Explained.