Josh Roiland

2026

• “The Last Hurrah: John Sack and Literary Journalism of the Absurd” • Literary Journalism Studies • Vol. 17, No. 1, Spring 2026, pp. 8-33

2023

• “Teaching the 1898 Wilmington Massacre: Literary, Historical, and Archival Perspectives” • North Carolina Literary Review • Fall 2023

2019

• “The Speaking Length” • Longreads • November 19, 2019

2018

• “Something Like Springtime” • Popula • November 10, 2018

2017

• “Derivative Sport: The Journalistic Legacy of David Foster Wallace” • Longreads • December 7, 2017

• “It Was Like Nothing Else in My Life Up to Now” • Haunted by Waters: The Future of Memory and the Red River Flood of 1997 • Edited by David Haeselin •  Grand Forks: The Digital Press of the University of North Dakota, 2017, pp. 167-182.

  • Reprinted by Longreads: “It Was Like Nothing Else in My Life Up to Now”

• “A Shot in the Arm” • Longreads • February 9, 2017

  • Best of 2017: Top 25 Longreads Exclusives of 2017

2016

• “By Any Other Name: The Case for Literary Journalism” • Literary Journalism Studies • Vol.7, No.2, Fall 2015, pp.60-89

2015

• “How Can I Tell Them There’s Nothing Left? Review of The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion“ • Washington Post, August 28, 2015

• “Annotation Tuesday! Literary Journalism in America Syllabus” • Nieman Storyboard, August 25, 2015

• “Spiritually Midwestern: What Middle America Meant to David Foster Wallace” • A24 Films • The End of the Tour

2013

• “‘Just People’ are Just People: Langston Hughes and the Populist Power of African American Literary Journalism” • Literary Journalism Studies • Vol.5, No.2., Fall 2013, pp.15-35 • SPECIAL ISSUE: African American Literary Journalism

  • Best Article 2013, Literary Journalism Studies

• The Fine Print: Uncovering the True Story of David Foster Wallace and the “Reality Boundary” • Literary Journalism Studies • Vol.5, No.2, Fall 2013, pp.148-161

  • Reprinted by Longreads: “David Foster Wallace and the Nature of Fact”

  • Best of 2014: 10 Most Popular Longreads Exclusives of the Year

• “Why’s This So Good?” No.87: Hunter S. Thompson and the Kentucky Derby • Nieman Storyboard • November 12, 2013

2012

• “Getting Away From It All: The Literary Journalism of David Foster Wallace and Nietzsche’s Concept of Oblivion” • The Legacy of David Foster Wallace • Eds. Samuel Cohen & Lee Konstantinou • Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2012, pp.25-52.

2009

• “Getting Away From It All: The Literary Journalism of David Foster Wallace and Nietzsche’s Concept of Oblivion” • Literary Journalism Studies • Vol.1, No.2, Fall 2009, 89-105.