Writer from Mississippi. MFA from Columbia. Previously a nonfiction editor at Guernica. Usually in Brooklyn.
Also: copywriting, fact checking, etc.
hello@paulmcadory.com for all inquiries ;-/
-Essays, Etc.-
Capacity to Deform (The Drift, 2024)
Art Basel Diary (Plaster, 2023)
On Derek Jarman’s The Garden (Metrograph, 2023)
Kamala Harris’s Word Salads (The New York Times Magazine, 2023)
On Gaming, Gaping, and God (Astra, 2022)
Save Scumming, and Art Handling (Dirt, 2022)
External Self-Talk (The New York Times Magazine, 2022)
On Narrative Illness and Gary Indiana’s Hate-Love Relationships (Gawker, 2022)
Swim Shorts, $159 (The Believer, 2022)
Cranly’s Arm and gay subtext in Joyce (Lit Hub, 2022)
Visions of Tom (Joyland, 2022)
Gay Sincerity Is Scary (Gawker, 2021)
Dark Clouds (The New York Times Magazine, 2021)
Snakes (The New York Times Magazine, 2020/21)
-Interviews-
100 Gecs (Interview Magazine, 2023)
-Video-
“…and then we dance?” ft. Julio Torres + Tilda Swinton (them., 2024)
-Reporting and “Reporting”-
Rising from the Dead at Monster Jam (The New York Times, 2024)
Line Dancing Toward Euphoria (The New York Times, 2023)
Consider the Jockstrap Brand Launch Event Party (Interview, 2023)
-Reviews-
Les Vampires (Dirt, 2022)
On Hanne Ørstavik’s ‘Love’ (The Millions, 2018)
-Shorts-
Supply and Demand: On Josh Kline (Frieze Week, 2023)
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Screen Slate, 2022)
Mind Game (Screen Slate, 2021)
169 Water Street (The Drift - Mentions, 2021)