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What it's like to be an author promoting a new book

A portrait of the artist in pre-publication limbo.

May 14, 2024 •

April 2023

On Media Survivorship Bias

Success and failure in the attention economy tend to be much more chaotic and less controllable than we'd like to believe.

Apr 23, 2023 •

A New Direction

The high point of any book launch comes at the beginning.

Apr 14, 2023 •

January 2022

Killing the Father: Station Eleven (Patrick Somerville, 2021)

The HBO adaptation of the popular novel is haunted by the relationships between parents and children, and the fraught legacies handed down from…

Jan 22, 2022 •

December 2021

The Snacks Were Free: Don’t Look Up (Adam McKay, 2021)

McKay’s satire is not the best movie of 2021, but it is the most 2021 movie of 2021.

Dec 31, 2021 •

May 2021

Ode to Joy: Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg, 2020)

The Danish film explores the pleasures and perils of drinking—and asks us to interrogate our own relationship with alcohol.

May 14, 2021 •

March 2021

Help Thou My Unbelief: Saint Maud (Rose Glass / 2019)

In a new religious horror film, the scariest thing is belief itself.

Mar 24, 2021 •

February 2021

One More Before I Go: Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2013)

A movie about the struggles of a life spent creating.

Feb 11, 2021 •

January 2021

Put the Weight On Me: I'm Your Woman (Julia Hart, 2020)

A subversive film noir take on the haze of early parenthood.

Jan 21, 2021 •

It Don't Worry Me: Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)

What Altman's masterpiece has to teach us about living through history.

Jan 14, 2021 •

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