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This #LaborDayWeekend, I celebrate the pub date for Lydia Paar's THE EXIT IS THE ENTRANCE, a powerful class memoir UGA Press that rejects the hero's journey for something much more real. Here's my review Jacobin. Thanks, Meagan Day, for laboring to edit! jacobin.com/2024/08/lydia-…

A whole year before #charliexcx's "Sucker," my sister Elizabeth put out a super-campy, self-consciously goofy, hyper-femme single "Put a Bow On It." The 2013 self-produced video anticipates so much of the zeitgeist now. youtube.com/watch?v=7PFkKf…

Super fun playing “Ransom Note” with friends.

This #LaborDay, check out Lydia Paar's debut THE EXIT IS THE ENTRANCE, a powerful class memoir UGA Press that rejects the hero's journey for something much more worldly and true. Honored to review Jacobin. jacobin.com/2024/08/lydia-… #class #solidarity #Portland #Flagstaff

 Congrats to the 2024 #Rabkin winners: Robin Givhan, Greg Allen, TK Smith, Thomas Lawson, Holland Cotter, Cassie Packard, Siddhartha Mitter, and Emily Watlington ✨. I am grateful to the Rabkin Foundation for awarding my work last year, and honored to be among such stellar company

Teaching Broyard’s “Portrait of a Hipster” for the hundredth time this morning, and delighted to find this 2010 gem @salon Christopher Byrd salon.com/2010/12/22/wha…

Psyched to start Rachel Kushner’s latest this weekend. She’s one of few contemporary novelists whose style is as stellar as her mind. I preorder every novel.

Last night I dreamt I died and went to heaven, which was a balcony seat next to Frank O'Hara at a grand opera house. "Heaven isn't so bad," I said to him before the curtains opened. "Oh, honey, this isn't heaven," Frank said. "The soprano is an understudy."

Shared this podcast I did with Arielle Bernstein and Gabe Bullard with my modern media students and a few actually listened and liked! We discuss generational differences, nostalgia, and pedagogy. Also: how delightfully weird the TMNTs were! watchingtogetheralone.com/p/the-importan…

The editor in me itches to fix the transitive verb here, but delighted to see my first book of nonfiction, for the Object Lessons series Bloomsbury U.S. get an official shout-out! My book on #lipstick will toss expired ideas about femininity like so many tubes of melting wax. 💄💄

Lana Wilson’s provocative new doc LOOK INTO MY EYES opens today Film Forum. In my review hyperallergic, I explore the blurry line between empathy and psychic healing. hyperallergic.com/948107/lana-wi…

Wasn't a consummate trap fan, but saddened to hear of #RichHomieQuan's untimely death at 34. I loved the ambiguity of the refrain for his biggest single: still feeling "some type of way" eleven years later. youtube.com/watch?v=-KKbdE… #RipRichHomieQuan #Atlanta

Scott Burton: Shape Shifting is a moving melange of dance and design, industrial materials and lithe limbs—in my favorite modern building in St. Louis: Pulitzer Arts Foundation!

Love that my new “Real ID” resembles a punkish elf! I’ve never felt more genuinely seen by state authorities.

“This creature of pure sex and mischief and silky ambiguity, I now saw, was also dark, vindictive and sad. This artist who liberated so many could be pathologically controlled and controlling.” Excellent piece Sasha Weiss on #Prince doc Netflix nytimes.com/2024/09/08/mag…

Saw REPO MAN (1984) on the big screen last week Alamo Drafthouse. What a delightfully trippy, anarchic, and original film! Proof that Emilio Estevez can nail any archetype—and that the Reagan '80s produced some excellent satire.

Online Film Comment Magazine now: the 🔥 story of how a group of filmworkers & activists saved La Clef, a community cinema in Paris, from closure by occupying it for 2.5 years, then raising funds to buy the building & turn it into a collectively-owned theater filmcomment.com/blog/a-key-for…

Speaking of new books, I am particularly looking forward to one on lipstick by Eileen G'Sell for Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series, due in late 2025. ❤️💄

This story Devika Girish Film Comment Magazine brought me a reel of hope filmcomment.com/blog/a-key-for… #Paris #Film