About/CV
Willy Staley writes about all sorts of stuff. Contact me at my name exactly as it appears in the URL [at] gmail [dot] com
New York Times Magazine
Riff: What Is the True Meaning of ‘Fanute’? (7/12)
The Lives They Lived: Roy Bates (Graphic Novel) (12/28)
The Lives They Lived: Stay High 149 & James Wilson (12/28)
The Lives They Lived: Larry Stevenson (12/28)
New York Magazine
The Awl
How the Looming Specter of Viral Marketing Ruins Rap Songs about Consumer Goods (7/16/10)
Why We Shouldn’t Treat Rap as Poetry (4/20/11)
The Point of Documenting Detroit (9/1/2011)
The McRib as Arbitrage (11/8/11)
The Street Names of Las Vegas (1/13)
Playboy
Whiskey Business (11/12)
Vasectomy Madness (3/13)
Complex
The 50 Greatest Bay Area Rap Songs (1/27/11)
E-40 Breaks Down His 25 Most Essential Tracks (4/1/11)
Too $hort Breaks Down His 25 Most Essential Tracks (2/24/2012)
San Francisco Bay Guardian
Lil B: The Man Behind the Meme (9/7/10)
Next American City
Urban Nation: Putting the UD back in HUD (12/10)
XXL
City of Dope (12/11)
Loverance (5/12)
The Classical
The FADER.com
Interview: Roach Gigz (6/23/11)
Next American City: Urban Nation
Little to Celebrate (12/27/10)
How Income Inequality Helps Explain Contemporary Urban America (9/15/10)
Urban Nation Abroad: Bogota! (8/31/10)
Libertarian Road Trip 2010! (8/11/10)
Can the Dep’t of Transportation Combat Obesity? (7/22/10)
Are We Becoming One Big Phoenix? (7/16/10)
Also, I Edit Copy:
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
Europe’s Parking U-Turn: From Accommodation to Regulation (Jan, 2011)
Advancing World Class BRT in the US (Jan, 2011)
Sustainable Transport Magazine, Issue 22 (Oct 2010)