Evan Kindley

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February 1, 2015

Strange Stories

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I interviewed Vanessa Davis about her father, the photojournalist Gerald Davis, and his new collection Strange Stories for the Paris Review Daily.

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January 22, 2015

Broad City

Broad City

Dear Television is covering Broad City this season for Talking Points Memo. Here’s my first contribution, on episode 2, “Mochalatta Chills.”

Update (2/12): Episode 5, “Hashtag FOMO.”

Update (3/12): Episode 9, “Coat Check.”

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January 15, 2015

Inherent Vice

My essay on Inherent Vice, lost love, and the objectification of women is up at Avidly.

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January 8, 2015

Culture Crash

My debut for Slate: a review of Scott Timberg’s Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class.

(Illustration by Jon Chadjurian)

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December 19, 2014

2014 Dear Television Questionnaire

I contributed to Dear Television’s year-in-review questionnaire over at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

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November 14, 2014

Getting On

I yakked with Lili Loofbourow about Getting On, probably my favorite show currently on television, for the Los Angeles Review of Books/Dear Television.

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November 12, 2014

Dory Previn

My appreciation of Dory Previn’s life and career is in the new issue of The Pitchfork Review, available now.

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August 22, 2014

The History of Rock’n’Roll in Ten Songs

I reviewed Greil Marcus’ The History of Rock’n’Roll in Ten Songs for the Los Angeles Times.

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July 8, 2014

Malcolm Cowley

I have a review of The Long Voyage: Selected Letters of Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1987 in the third issue of the Los Angeles Review of Books‘ quarterly journal.

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June 16, 2014

Love, Factionally

I reviewed the new expanded edition of Carl Wilson’s Let’s Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste for Public Books.

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May 20, 2014

Publicness

On Thursday, May 29th, I’ll be appearing at Betalevel’s Errata Salon to discuss questionnaires and quizzes, from the confession album to BuzzFeed. Also on the bill is Ben Wurgaft, who’ll be speaking about cafes as work spaces.

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May 10, 2014

The Animals

I reviewed The Animals: Love Letters between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy for the Los Angeles Times.

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May 2, 2014

I Did Not Approve This Message

I wrote about David Foster Wallace, James Joyce, and literary estates for the Paris Review Daily.

(Photo credit: loveleeliz, via Instagram)

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April 19, 2014

Willowbrook

I interviewed Rosten Woo about his new book Willowbrook is…/es… for the Los Angeles Review of Books.

(Photo credit: Alyse Emdur)

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April 14, 2014

L.A. Times Festival of Books

I covered two book panels for the L.A. Times this weekend: one on “The Art of the Personal Story” with Leo Braudy, Leslie Jamison, Pico Iyer, and Dinah Lenney, and one on “The Artist as Influencer” with William Todd Schultz, Ben Tarnoff, and Beverly Walker.

(Photo credit: Bret Hartman / L.A. Times.)

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March 17, 2014

Moonlighting

I wrote an essay for Avidly, responding to Yasmin Nair’s “Scabs: Academics and Others Who Write For Free.”

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March 12, 2014

True Detective

I contributed a post about the culture of recaps and precaps, and what I call “the Temporal Fallacy,” to Dear Television’s True Detective symposium.

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March 4, 2014

Train in Vain

I wrote a short essay on my reservations about the Amtrak Residency for n+1.

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February 7, 2014

Community

I did a guest appearance at Dear Television this week to discuss season 5 of Community.

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January 15, 2014

Ismism

I reviewed The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines for the London Review of Books.

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