Life during wartime
On Tolstoy, Talking Heads, and slow-motion tragedy
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And now Marianne and Heloise from Portrait of a Lady on Fire go to see Hadestown
Or: Sophie the maid has some thoughts on capitalism
Green light
Or: Some things I realized about men once I finally admitted I wasn't one
Why I'm leaving New York
And what it means to come home
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