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The Pauline Kael of now, Kristen Lopez, has a book dropping 11/27. Forward by TCM’s Ben Mankiewicz, praise from Patton Oswalt.
November 14, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The Pauline Kael of now, Kristen Lopez, has a book dropping 11/27. Forward by TCM’s Ben Mankiewicz, praise from Patton Oswalt.
I don't do this often but good lordy lord lord please go experience the audiobook of @sgj.bsky.social's The Buffalo Hunter Hunter if you can. High recommend. Victorian em dashes and excalmation points.
November 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I don't do this often but good lordy lord lord please go experience the audiobook of @sgj.bsky.social's The Buffalo Hunter Hunter if you can. High recommend. Victorian em dashes and excalmation points.
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New byline!! Got to shout out some of the disabled movies worth watching for @letterboxd.social!!
letterboxd.com/journal/disa...
letterboxd.com/journal/disa...
Disability Visibility: a starter pack of twenty depictions of disability on film • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
With her book Popcorn Disabilities soon to hit shelves, author Kristen Lopez offers a starter pack of twenty films about disability—from the good (The Best Years of Our Lives) to the not-so-good (Rain...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
New byline!! Got to shout out some of the disabled movies worth watching for @letterboxd.social!!
letterboxd.com/journal/disa...
letterboxd.com/journal/disa...
Congratulations to FalkinLit client Laurent Bouzereau for the 2026 Grammy nomination (Best Music Film) for his work on the documentary 'Music by John Williams'!
November 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Congratulations to FalkinLit client Laurent Bouzereau for the 2026 Grammy nomination (Best Music Film) for his work on the documentary 'Music by John Williams'!
Gotta story, THE ROCK STATUE, in here: booktrib.com/2025/10/27/e...
Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year, Volume 17 Delivers Terror at Its Finest | BookTrib.
I have to admit, as a horror writer, editor and reader, these “best of” anthologies are like candy. Part of me wants to curl up on the couch and read such a lovely volume straight through, and another...
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October 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Gotta story, THE ROCK STATUE, in here: booktrib.com/2025/10/27/e...
Attending the Legacy Elementary ribbon-cutting with my author client Craig Garnett felt necessary. I also had the honor of meeting the staff at the Uvalde Leader-News, including Kimberly Rubio. #Uvalde #craiggarnett #uvaldesdarkesthour
October 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Attending the Legacy Elementary ribbon-cutting with my author client Craig Garnett felt necessary. I also had the honor of meeting the staff at the Uvalde Leader-News, including Kimberly Rubio. #Uvalde #craiggarnett #uvaldesdarkesthour
“Kirk declared his risk was worth it. Uvalde’s 19 students and two teachers never had a say.” www.uvaldeleadernews.com/articles/ima... #Uvalde #CraigGarnett
Images can’t force compassion in culture that accepts violent death - Uvalde Leader News
In the chaotic days after May 24, 2022, I fielded calls, emails, and handwritten letters from heartbroken and angry people across the nation, urging families to release photos of the children’s wounds...
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September 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
“Kirk declared his risk was worth it. Uvalde’s 19 students and two teachers never had a say.” www.uvaldeleadernews.com/articles/ima... #Uvalde #CraigGarnett
Good times with client Wendy Benchley this morning at @lbjlibrary.bsky.social. Before Jaws took over his life, Peter Benchley was a speechwriter in the LBJ White House.
September 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Good times with client Wendy Benchley this morning at @lbjlibrary.bsky.social. Before Jaws took over his life, Peter Benchley was a speechwriter in the LBJ White House.
FalkinLit’s David Masciotra’s latest in re DFW: unherd.com/2025/08/davi...
David Foster Wallace: prophet of American loneliness
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August 29, 2025 at 1:22 AM
FalkinLit’s David Masciotra’s latest in re DFW: unherd.com/2025/08/davi...
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For all my ARC readers/podcasts/journalist friends! #POPCORNDISABILITIES is now available to read via @Netgalley. #tcmparty
August 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
For all my ARC readers/podcasts/journalist friends! #POPCORNDISABILITIES is now available to read via @Netgalley. #tcmparty
FalkinLit's David Masciotra: "Anyone honest would have to acknowledge that it is impossible to imagine the rise of anyone like Ozzy in the contemporary “marketplace,” which more than anything is what it sounds like–a zone where commerce has finally won its ancient fight with art." shorturl.at/j07uT
Better to Reign in Art Than Serve the Algorithm: Ozzy Osbourne as One of the Last Rebels
What distinguishes Ozzy from the boring and unimaginative pop stars of the algorithm is that it was an image he created. And when he created that image, he was often battling against record company ex...
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July 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
FalkinLit's David Masciotra: "Anyone honest would have to acknowledge that it is impossible to imagine the rise of anyone like Ozzy in the contemporary “marketplace,” which more than anything is what it sounds like–a zone where commerce has finally won its ancient fight with art." shorturl.at/j07uT
Yes. Yet more Jaws stuff from #falkinliterary. Not often you have 2 clients (Bouzereau & Benchley) in one moment. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/a...
Why ‘Jaws’ Works
www.nytimes.com
July 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Yes. Yet more Jaws stuff from #falkinliterary. Not often you have 2 clients (Bouzereau & Benchley) in one moment. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/a...
Holy god giant mutant ticks in ATX everybody run
June 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Holy god giant mutant ticks in ATX everybody run
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This is all to say I’ll be sharing more from my book WELCOME BOILS AND GHOULS, the first oral history ever written on the show, as we get closer to its release in 2027.
June 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This is all to say I’ll be sharing more from my book WELCOME BOILS AND GHOULS, the first oral history ever written on the show, as we get closer to its release in 2027.
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So excited to announce my next book, POPCORN DISABILITIES, hits shelves November 13th! This was a labor of love that I hope makes people look closer at the movies they love. Preorders are available now through the @Bloomsbury website.
www.bloomsbury.com/us/popcorn-d...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/popcorn-d...
June 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
So excited to announce my next book, POPCORN DISABILITIES, hits shelves November 13th! This was a labor of love that I hope makes people look closer at the movies they love. Preorders are available now through the @Bloomsbury website.
www.bloomsbury.com/us/popcorn-d...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/popcorn-d...
paperback out now. if not, why haven’t you read this yet? tell me…
June 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
paperback out now. if not, why haven’t you read this yet? tell me…
Excited about this. The core reason I wanted to work with Kristen. thefilmmaven.substack.com/p/popcorn-di...
'Popcorn Disabilities' Cover Reveal and Release Date
I'm going long, book long, on disability in film.
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June 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Excited about this. The core reason I wanted to work with Kristen. thefilmmaven.substack.com/p/popcorn-di...