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Critical perspectives on arts, politics, and culture.
Brooklyn, NY
Joined October 2010
RT @kimchimarx: For @TheBrooklynRail I reviewed Hong Sang-soo’s wonderful By the Stream, a thoughtful rumination on the history of art cens….
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RT @E_M_Charles: Excited to share my chat in @TheBrooklynRail with @prof_alopez on her new book Reel Freedom from @TempleUnivPress . https:….
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Alyssa Lopez speaks to the Rail about her new book Reel Freedom and the emergence of Black film culture in early twentieth-century New York City.
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RT @sadfilmcritic: I'm so pleased to be making my @TheBrooklynRail debut with a review of J. Hoberman's great new book, Everything Is Now:….
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Everything Is Now succeeds in reminding us that although many of the people written about may no longer be around, their work and their actual spirits live on in a real and gratifying way.
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RT @mnaaht: “At the crack of dawn, usually around 6 a.m., Brad Kahlhamer stretches out a white bed sheet onto concrete.” . I loved writing….
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At the crack of dawn, usually around 6 a.m., Brad Kahlhamer stretches out a white bed sheet onto concrete. Just as the sun comes up, looking out into the distance in Mesa, Arizona, he paints....
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RT @astrahousebooks: "FORECLOSURE GOTHIC is a goth song in novel form. It is full of murk, omens, melodrama, the lushness of carnality, and….
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Harris Lahti’s debut, Foreclosure Gothic, is a goth song in novel form. It is full of murk, omens, melodrama, the lushness of carnality, and the fearsomeness of love’s darker impulses. It follows the...
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RT @jake_romm: For the June issue of @TheBrooklynRail, I wrote about photographer Blake Little's beautiful "Construction Nudes 1981-1985",….
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The #LydiaMillet will be in conversation with Mandana Chaffa (@recycledgiraffe) about her latest collection of short stories, ATAVISTS (@wwnorton), this Wednesday (5/28). Join us in the Zoom at 1 pm Eastern!
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We're thrilled to welcome Morgan Jerkins (@MorganJerkins) for a conversation with Stephen Patrick Bell (@StephenOrBell) about her new novel ZEAL (@HarperCollins; @harperbooks) this Wednesday, May 21st. Join us in the Zoom at 1 pm Eastern!
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RT @naomi_elias: I spoke with queer historian Marc Zinaman about his new book, Queer Happened Here: 100 Years of NYC’s Landmark LGBTQ+ Plac….
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In 2021, queer historian and longtime Brooklynite Marc Zinaman began documenting New York City’s historic and little-known LGBTQ+ spaces on Instagram, now gathered and expanded in book form. Here he...
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RT @samfz7: For The Brooklyn Rail I reviewed Lauren Haddad's FIREWEED, a complicated and risky feat of storytelling that people aren't resp….
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RT @hbhicks4: "Deep House argues for us to not wait for the law to catch up to us, but to instead love anyways despite the threat and to do….
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The premise of Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told is simple. Jeremy Atherton Lin displays two parallel, interwoven narratives: a sprawling memoir of his love story with his long-term...
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We're overjoyed to welcome #MaggieNelson for a conversation with #DarceySteinke on her latest book PATHEMATA, OR, THE STORY OF MY MOUTH (#wavebooks) this Wednesday, April 23rd. Join us in the Zoom at 1 pm Eastern!
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RT @yalepress: @TheBrooklynRail reviews “Kareem James Abu-Zeid’s stellar translations” of the “powerful” poems by Najwan Darwish in No One….
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Whether as the result of foresight or just plain good timing, we are fortunate, then, for the November 2024 release of Kareem James Abu-Zeid’s stellar translations of poems by Najwan Darwish, a...
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*The Lidia Yuknavitch* joins us for a conversation with Porochista Khakpour (@PKhakpour) on her latest memoir, Reading the Waves (@riverheadbooks), this Wednesday, April 16th, at 1 pm Eastern!. We can't wait to see you in the Zoom. Register here:
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RT @E_M_Charles: A Tribute to David Lynch - A @TheBrooklynRail New Social Environment Conversation I’ll be part of this Thursday. Register….
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RT @softskull: "Tillman has a fondness for this kind of paradox—the way opposites tend to collapse in on themselves. In her stories, fictio….
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In one of the stories in Thrilled to Death, a newly published selection of stories from her singular career, Lynne Tillman describes Clint Eastwood as “a tall, lean man, who seemed he would never...
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RT @PetzelGallery: Thank you Jillian Russo for the review of Zorawar Sidhu and Rob Swainston's exhibition "Flash Point" in @TheBrooklynRail….
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Printmaking duo Zorawar Sidhu and Rob Swainston’s exhibition Flash Point intermingles three new bodies of work addressing current political and environmental crises.
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We're thrilled to welcome Danez Smith (@Danez_Smif) for a conversation with Mandana Chaffa (@recycledgiraffe) on their latest collection BLUFF (@GraywolfPress) this Wednesday, April 9th. Join us in the Zoom at 1 pm Eastern!
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