Hello. I’m Christopher Bahn, a writer and editor from Minneapolis specializing in the arts and pop culture.
My features, reviews, interviews, album liner notes, and other writing have appeared in The A.V. Club, MSNBC.com, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Clarkesworld, Momentum, Spaces, The Rake, Request, City Pages, Citysearch, Sidewalk, The Minnesota Daily, and elsewhere. I was also the lead editor for the A.V. Club’s Minneapolis-St. Paul edition from 2004 to 2010, and an associate editor at The Rake and the Minnesota editions of Citysearch and Sidewalk.
About this website
This collects previously published writing from print and online. I might occasionally publish new material here, but the main intention is to be an archive of my work that might be hard to find or even completely vanished in its originally published form. If the article is still available at its original site, I’ll probably just provide a link from here to there, but in other cases I’m reprinting things in full.
I have, in some cases, updated the articles presented here. When that goes beyond copyediting, I’ll mention that in an editor’s note. As you may know, writers usually don’t write their own headlines—that’s traditionally reserved for their editors. I have taken the liberty of changing the original headlines, if it seems necessary, when republishing here.
Publication dates listed here match the original as closely as possible. If I’ve updated the text significantly, such as my interview with Michael Yonkers, I’ve kept the original publication date but also noted the date of the re-edit.
Where I’ve been published
Click on the logos above to see a list of my writing for each publication.
Want to get in touch?
You can reach me via my Contact page.