Why I'm leaving New York
And what it means to come home
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.
Listen to some audio fiction podcasts already
Tired of Netflix? Allow me to suggest an entertainment medium that I, personally, benefit from.
Just watch the early "bad" episodes
A TV show teaches you how to watch it. Sometimes, it has to teach you via episodes that don't quite seem to work.
In which Roger Ebert almost gets me fired
On unlikely friendships, meeting your heroes, and avoiding yourself on the internet
"All Too Well" is Taylor Swift's best song, and I will fight you if you claim otherwise
Okay, it might be "Blank Space" actually
What do we want from the TV small town?
On Letterkenny, Schitt's Creek, and the ways we romanticize rural lives
Life jacket
Or: I watched the Mr. Robot finale and had an existential crisis
From the cutting room floor...
A cut excerpt from my recent end-of-the-2010s culture piece
What's your favorite pop culture New Year's Eve/Day?
My 11 favorite things I wrote in 2019
(Not including all of the things I wrote in 2019 that you won't see until 2020 at the earliest)
Let's make tiny New Year's resolutions together
