Archive - Lou Reed's Nephew

What if saying it out loud is the trick?

Jun 24 •

May 2025

A Note on the Candidate

"I would invite you to see these concerns, taken together, as a feature, rather than a bug."

May 12 •

November 2024

The Undepressed Person

Nov 25, 2024 •

The Rise and Rise of the Savvy Bumpkin

A theory I can't stop thinking about.

Nov 17, 2024 •

August 2024

Before Nathan Fielder there was A Day With Picasso

Published on Medium Cool • Aug 19, 2024

May 2024

How to write about the things we love.

May 15, 2024 •

December 2023

Lou Reed's Nephew's Author Gets a Book Deal

What happens now?

Dec 15, 2023 •

October 2023

E40. Lou Reed's Nephew on Lou Reed

“That would be like Jesus actually having a son.”

Oct 27, 2023 •

E39. Lou Reed's Nephew's Narrator Sells Out

I worked to live, or had at one point, and could not learn how to live to work. Not now. It was too late.

Oct 26, 2023 •

E38. The Commencement Address of Lou Reed's Nephew

"Life is infuriating, the way it wrests appropriateness from us when inappropriateness is called for."

Oct 24, 2023 •

E37. Lou Reed’s Nephew on Lou Reed’s Nephew’s Narrator’s Epic Pivot

"Though we rarely speak of it, technology is a mess. It’s riddled with mistakes, and these mistakes compound on one another daily, like the brain…

Oct 19, 2023 •

E36. Lou Reed's Nephew's Narrator Sleeps In

How could I have been so foolish?

Oct 18, 2023 •

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