Hometown Harvest: Canlis finds inspiration—and a new chef—in its own backyard // Seattle Magazine

Shadow Work: The Human Magic of Manual Cinema // The Stranger

Hives Among the Headstones: Inside a north Seattle project reimagining cemeteries as sanctuaries for pollinators. // Seattle Magazine

From controversy to clarity: How a Philadelphia medical museum is rethinking the display of human remains // The Art Newspaper

Loved to Pieces: On the Appeal of Collecting Well-Worn Books // Fine Books & Collections Magazine (print-only)

The Phantoms of Beacon Hill: How Seattle Lost (and Found) Comet Lodge Cemetery // The Stranger

Spirit House at the Henry Art Gallery Makes Room for the Living and the Dead // Public Display Art

Leonora Carrington: The Rise of Surrealism’s Forgotten Feminist Witch // Public Display Art

Hungry Ghosts: Pulitzer Winner Tessa Hulls on Comics, Creativity, and Activism // Public Display Art

A New Look at Letterlocking: Secrets Sealed in Paper // Fine Books & Collections Magazine

Old Language, New Life // Seattle Met

How Do You Lose 3,200 Dead People? // The Stranger

On a San Francisco Roof, an Artist’s Work Is Birthed by the Night Sky // The Art Newspaper

Library Shines in Frick Renovation // Fine Books & Collections Magazine

In a Luminous New Home, Arion Press Shares How Books Are Made // Fine Books & Collections Magazine

Seattle’s Coolest Libraries and Archives // The Ticket (Seattle Times)

The Story of Lake Washington’s Floating Bridges // Seattle Met

The Amazing Journey of the Three Kichis (research & podcast script) // iHeart

Why Visiting Cemeteries Is Good for You // The Stranger

The Haunted History of Washington’s Strangest Gravesite // Seattle Met

What’s the Deal with Tolo Dances? // Seattle Met

Internal Theft (fiction) // Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 

One Man’s Fight to Save a Mental Hospital’s Forgotten Cemetery // Atlas Obscura

Northwest Know-How: Haunts (non-fiction book) // Sasquatch Books

The Extraordinary Body of Evatima Tardo (essay) // Wellcome Collection

The Nondescript (fiction–print only) // The Ghastling

Possessed (essay/fiction–print only) // The Happy Reader

Gray (essay–print only) // Wildsam Field Guides, Seattle edition

Uncertainty Bootcamp (essay) // Seattle Met Magazine

The Pioneering Health Officer Who Saved Portland From the Plague // Smithsonian Magazine

What Should You Wear to Your Funeral? // Considerable

Death Is Forever. Cemeteries, As They Currently Exist, Might Not Be // 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? (op-ed) // The New York Times

The Legend (and Truth) of the Voodoo Priestess Who Haunts a Louisiana Swamp // 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

Einstein’s Brain Heist: Why Are We So Obsessed with Famous Dead Bodies? // Slate

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 (essay) // 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 (op-ed) // The New York Times

The Arctic Club’s Most Famous Tenant // Seattle Met 

Where Are They Now: Dictators Edition (PDF) // Boston Globe Ideas

A Measure of Mystery: Where Our Words for Mass, Weight, and Distance Come From (PDF) //  Boston Globe Word column

A Deck Of Cards And A Golden Whistle: Grave Goods Of The Stars (PDF) // The Believer

Experimenting with Drugs feature on Vancouver’s safe-injection site (Winner of a Society of Professional Journalists Excellence Award) // The Stranger, 2003

Invisible Literature: Wayde Compton Discovers the Unmapped Territory of Black British Columbia // The Stranger, 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