Nicholas Miriello

Nicholas Miriello is an editor and writer in New York. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, McSweeney’s, CutBank Literary Magazine, Huffington Magazine, Word Riot, and others.

Articles

Radiohead’s Emotional Cryonics
Every Radiohead album has occasioned famously bad music criticism. Why is it so hard to write about Radiohead’s music?...
Nicholas MirielloJul 7, 2016
- Music
“Siphoning Away the Warmth”: On Jim Shepard’s Radical Empathy
"The Book of Aron" is a book about annihilation, and the human spirit that somehow lives on, in slivers and cracks....
Nicholas MirielloJun 12, 2015
- Fiction
The Anti-Mamet: On Tina Fey’s Men
Masculinity in '30 Rock' and 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'...
Nicholas MirielloApr 18, 2015
- Television
The Lives of Our Memories
The story of the narrator’s conception and birth: Andrea Canobbio’s inverted bildungsroman....
Nicholas MirielloJan 16, 2015
- Fiction
The Last Donut of the Night
J DILLA WAS NOT well as he worked to finish his now widely heralded Donuts. Friends recall him frail, tirelessly tinkering with the final tracks from his hospital bed. A lasting photograph reveals the sight of a diminished Dilla alone with ...
Nicholas MirielloJul 11, 2014
- Music
Blake Bailey’s Splendid Things
Blake Bailey avoiding the traps of the memoir form....
Nicholas MirielloMay 16, 2014
My Friend, Frasier Crane
Netflix, 'Her,' and the endless search for intimacy...
Nicholas MirielloFeb 25, 2014
Only Disconnect: Peter Orner's Latest
Peter Orner’s Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge is fragmented. That’s what makes it hang together....
Nicholas MirielloOct 6, 2013
What Is This Review Interested In?: On Frederick Seidel’s Review of Rachel Kushner’s “The Flamethrowers”
On Seidel's "NYRB" critique of Kushner's "Flamethrowers."...
Nicholas MirielloJul 13, 2013