I am an artistic genius, and my medium is custom-designed plaques
How I forged a life-long friendship and weirded out the customer service representatives of Plaquemaker dot com, one plaque at a time
Emily St. James
Emily St. James is a writer and critic whose work has appeared in Vox, The A.V. Club, and the New York Times. She is the co-creator of the podcast Arden and a writer on the TV series Yellowjackets.
White babies
Or how a 4Chan shitpost continues to haunt me
Why Hayao Miyazaki and David Lynch excel at dream logic
And very few of their imitators do
Wheel of fortune
A story
Have I mentioned how much I don't like Sherlock?
On TV shows that want you to think you're smart just for watching them
The surprisingly similar arc of sitcoms about aliens
Why do most sitcoms about aliens start out as hits, then get canceled after season four?
The witch
Or: On finding new lenses through which to see the world
My wife vs. the fruit flies
In which Libby's quest for vengeance turns her into Captain Ahab
All of the things my parents thought I would be
And all of the things I wasn't
Babylon Berlin: "Episode 27" and "Episode 28" (with Libby Hill)
In which there's something horrible underneath the streets of Berlin
On becoming a bisexual in downtown Los Angeles
What is a sexuality anyway?
In which I am a TV character
Depersonalization does weird things to you, folks