So, I watched the 2025 American Music Awards. This essay isn’t really about that, but it begins there all the same. It was a strange broadcast, interspersed with live performances, celebrities, influencers. There were fewer celebrities than expected—especially the most famous ones. Only a handful of awards were given out live, and of those, only … Continue reading American Unreality
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Josh’s Halloween Movie Binge
For this Halloween season, I decided to fill in some of the glaring gaps in my movie watching history. I picked out a bunch of horror and horror-adjacent films I had never seen before (don't judge me) and sat down to expand my experience with horror on screen. Foreign films, classics, and more recent releases--here … Continue reading Josh’s Halloween Movie Binge
Book Recommendations from Josh and Daien
In the 12th episode of our Writers, Readers, and the Stories We Love livestreams, Daien Sanchez and I discussed a list of some of our favorite books from various genres. If you missed it, you can listen to the full conversation below. I've also written up the complete list of titles and authors we discussed … Continue reading Book Recommendations from Josh and Daien
Dear, Chester
Dear, Chester, I’ve been thinking over the past two days about how it felt to hear that you were gone, and about all that I’ve heard, seen, and felt since then. I never met you, yet the news that you had died has left the world feeling like there’s a piece of it missing. And … Continue reading Dear, Chester
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