Daniel Felsenthal is a music writer for Pitchfork and the assistant editor of NOON. His short stories, essays, and criticism have appeared in a variety of publications, including the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Village Voice, The Baffler, The Believer, Hyperallergic, Kenyon Review, and BOMB, among others. In 2019, his novella, Sex With Andre, came out in The Puritan, and he received a 2020–’21 Fellowship Grant from The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. He is currently at work on a novel and a collection of short stories. Read more of his stuff at Danielfelsenthal.com.
Daniel Felsenthal
Articles
Gentrifi(Kink)tion: Sex Writing Goes Literary, Again
Daniel Felsenthal on the presumptions and missed opportunities of “Kink.”
(Un)happy Partners: On Jazz and Independent Film
How American independent cinema learned improvisation from jazz.
The Devils of Our Better Nature: On Dennis Cooper and His New Film
“Permanent Green Light” is the demonic author’s most innocent work.
That Somber City: In Search of Saul Bellow’s Montréal
On Saul Bellow and the city of his early childhood.
In Youth Is Suffering: Denton Welch and the Literature of Convalescence
Identity and disability in the fictions of a neglected modernist.
A Carnal Contact with Reality: On Pasolini’s Novels
On a great director’s neglected novels.
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