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Alana Pockros

@APockros

Associate Editor @thenation. Editing The Weekend Read. Writing all over.

เข้าร่วม Aralık 2012
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Alana Pockros@APockros·
@spiccarella I have to say this is basically that writers only shtick with reviews. “This book is bad because it’s actually like this one, which maybe you haven’t read” — even when the author themselves may be very public about that book being inspired stylistically
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Stephen Piccarella
Stephen Piccarella@spiccarella·
It’s always important when writing a piece of literary criticism to firmly establish yourself as smarter and better-read than the author whose work you’re criticizing, as well as every person who might be reading the piece
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Alana Pockros@APockros·
@snjeriwambugu I have actually written a line about this in my forthcoming review of the book
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Cleveland Review of Books
Cleveland Review of Books@clereviewbooks·
CRB Vol. 4.1 is here, with writing on Meridel Le Sueur's communist deathbed, the American art market's forged Etruscan bronzes, Garth Greenwell’s novels about pain, key words in video games, & so much more. The discount code LOOKSMAX will get ya 30% off any level.
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Rachel Tashjian Wise
Rachel Tashjian Wise@theprophetpizza·
I CANNOT WAIT FOR RICHARD BRODY'S REVIEW OF "THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Alana Pockros@APockros·
"Noem had perhaps taken too seriously her mandate as chief nativist influencer. She had girlbossed too close to the sun, waddled too far into the icy wilderness."
Mitch Therieau@MitchTherieau

For @thedrift_mag, I went long on the regime of images under Trump 2. In which I try to make sense of the penguin, Cowboy Kristi, the TPUSA halftime show, Sound of Freedom, Steve Lockjaw, and much more thedriftmag.com/into-the-right…

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Kevin Lozano
Kevin Lozano@kevlloydlozano·
Hello! My last day @thenation is tomorrow! Editing alongside @davidimarcus these last eight years has been an honor. More TK...on what's next for me And if you want to get in touch - or pitch me or whatever - I am at kevinlloydlozano@gmail.com
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Lena Dunham
Lena Dunham@lenadunham·
All adventurous women do.
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Christopher Shay
Christopher Shay@ChrisBurkeShay·
Jasper Lo writes about being a fact checker at the New Yorker and then being illegally fired by Conde Nast. It captures much of what's good about this industry—the care for words, truth; the worker solidarity—and so so much of what's fucked up about it. thenation.com/article/cultur…
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kelly erin
kelly erin@kelly_erin_·
They’ve cast Will Poulter to play Ben Lerner in Auofiction: The Movie
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Dirt
Dirt@dirtyverse·
"While calling yourself a Freudian today might induct you into a crowd of elites, being born as a Freudian only made me an outsider." @APockros on being born into Freud, the first piece from Still Alive x Dirt.
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