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culture writer. contributing @defectormedia. IN MY HUMBLE OPINION: MY SO-CALLED LIFE (ECW, 2016). UNTITLED CULTURAL HISTORY (LIVERIGHT, 2025). firstlast @ gmail

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soraya roberts
1 year
i have an agent now. she sent me this. šŸ’‹
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27 days
nothing like spending months on a super sprawling reported culture piece to make you realize how few places run that shit anymore. if anyone has any names for places that do i would love to hear them.
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2 months
if you are a culture critic, it's rare to have your work be actively obviously useful, but i wrote about writer hanif kureishi suddenly becoming a paraplegic and capturing his changing perspective in his new memoir, SHATTERED, and got a magical comment.
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5 months
i thot this was just a j-cloth. i wrote about it.
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soraya roberts
7 months
wrote about sebastian stan, A DIFFERENT MAN, and the power of perspective.
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soraya roberts
9 months
last column before christmas break is on james acaster's new special, HECKLERS WELCOME (i really wanted to like this!!!), and the inundation of crowd work in comedy.
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I hate to say it, but the biggest laugh in James Acaster’s new special, Hecklers Welcome, comes from a heckle. Obviously. The show opens with the British comic naming his house rules, which amount to...
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soraya roberts
10 months
wrote about SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE and this:
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10 months
wtf is in the north carolina water that everyone from there is a genius singer songwriter.
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soraya roberts
10 months
just read jill lepore as amanda lepore in a piece of historical scholarship on textiles and got REALLY confused for a second.
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soraya roberts
10 months
didn't realize gary indiana passed, but read this recently and adored it. 🚬
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ā€˜It happens when you realize that your legs are no good anymore. They won’t carry you far before they hurt.’
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