Writing for The Newark Star-Ledger
In the summer of 2010, Jay Lustig offered me my first writing gig, to cover jazz for my then-hometown newspaper, The Newark Star-Ledger. I relished the opportunity and published regularly there, covering the "jazz beat" for about a year before I decided to leave for a PhD program in faraway Los Angeles. By then, the writing was already on the wall for the newspaper industry and as much as I loved the work, I knew that it wouldn't sustain a professional career. Still, I have fond memories of this time and am proud of the writing that came out of it, which can still be read online: