Megan Abbott
@meganabbott.bsky.social
NYT-bestselling author of EL DORADO DRIVE (out June 24, 2025), BEWARE THE WOMAN, THE TURNOUT, GIVE ME YOUR HAND, YOU WILL KNOW ME, THE FEVER, etc. Co-creator/showrunner: DARE ME on Netflix. www.meganabbott.com
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Megan Abbott
@meganabbott.bsky.social
· May 24
Megan Abbott and the lure of private worlds
The crime writer talks about her new novel, “El Dorado Drive,” and what keeps her motivated: “I always want to go to a place I haven’t gone.”
www.washingtonpost.com
This interview was incredibly fun (and a great excuse to live out my film noir dreams with the photo shoot)
Big thanks to Sophia Nguyen (and to Amir Hamja)
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
Big thanks to Sophia Nguyen (and to Amir Hamja)
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
Is Wallace Shawn the Only Avant-Garde Artist Who Gets Stopped in Times Square?
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Between IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, THE SECRET AGENT and IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU, is this the year of the cinematic leg?
February 8, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Between IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, THE SECRET AGENT and IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU, is this the year of the cinematic leg?
“If it weren’t for these, I reckon I might not have gotten into reading what I do.”
Truly a loss. Mass-market paperbacks made me a reader.
So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...
Truly a loss. Mass-market paperbacks made me a reader.
So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...
So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:16 PM
“If it weren’t for these, I reckon I might not have gotten into reading what I do.”
Truly a loss. Mass-market paperbacks made me a reader.
So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...
Truly a loss. Mass-market paperbacks made me a reader.
So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...
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February 4, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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“It’s happening in the U.S. It’s happening in Brazil and in Europe. There is a group of society, usually from the far right, and they are fighting reality every day. They wake up in the morning and go to sleep fighting reality.”
Extraordinary interview with Kleber Mendonça Filho, by my colleague Stephania Taladrid, that goes far into the sources, ideas, and methods of The Secret Agent; his approach to the archival is a fundamental and far-reaching ethic of cinema:
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Brazilian Director Who’s Up for Multiple Oscars
Kleber Mendonça Filho wants his films to reclaim lost history.
www.newyorker.com
February 1, 2026 at 5:37 PM
“It’s happening in the U.S. It’s happening in Brazil and in Europe. There is a group of society, usually from the far right, and they are fighting reality every day. They wake up in the morning and go to sleep fighting reality.”
“My father warned me about men and booze, but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine.”
HBD, the incendiary Tallulah Bankhead ...
HBD, the incendiary Tallulah Bankhead ...
January 31, 2026 at 4:44 PM
“My father warned me about men and booze, but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine.”
HBD, the incendiary Tallulah Bankhead ...
HBD, the incendiary Tallulah Bankhead ...
one of my absolute favorite Catherine O'Hara performances:
January 30, 2026 at 7:58 PM
one of my absolute favorite Catherine O'Hara performances:
"How can you talk to someone who doesn’t live in the same reality that you do?"
variety.com/2026/film/aw...
variety.com/2026/film/aw...
Wagner Moura on Making Oscars History With ‘The Secret Agent’ and His Warning to America: ‘Polarization Is Democracy’s Greatest Threat’
Wagner Moura on his historic Oscar nomination, Brazil’s past under dictatorship and why Donald Trump alarms those who’ve lived it.
variety.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:24 PM
"How can you talk to someone who doesn’t live in the same reality that you do?"
variety.com/2026/film/aw...
variety.com/2026/film/aw...
and every elitist notion of Midwesterners.
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 27, 2026 at 1:52 PM
and every elitist notion of Midwesterners.
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ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
What an excellent, deeply thought-provoking book. As a consumer of true crime since childhood, it changed the way I'll think about it forever.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/b...
A Journalist on the Inside Upends Good vs. Evil Criminal Stereotypes
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2026 at 2:52 PM
What an excellent, deeply thought-provoking book. As a consumer of true crime since childhood, it changed the way I'll think about it forever.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/b...
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In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
adding Once Upon a Crime ❤️
bookshop.org/shop/onceupo...
bookshop.org/shop/onceupo...
I would absolutely love to give you a personalized book recommendation if you promise that tomorrow, not today, you purchase from Bookshop.org to benefit a Twin Cities bookstore.
January 23, 2026 at 2:57 PM
adding Once Upon a Crime ❤️
bookshop.org/shop/onceupo...
bookshop.org/shop/onceupo...
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Okay one more: cool to finally see casting noms and one for the secret agent, which has the greatest collection of faces of any movie I’ve recently seen
January 22, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Okay one more: cool to finally see casting noms and one for the secret agent, which has the greatest collection of faces of any movie I’ve recently seen
"Wherever you are, get organized now." www.theverge.com/policy/86419...
It’s worse than it looks in Minneapolis
But locals are organizing to keep each other safe from ICE agents.
www.theverge.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:13 PM
"Wherever you are, get organized now." www.theverge.com/policy/86419...
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Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
January 20, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
HBD, David Lynch, missed every day 💔
(from Film Comment, 1986)
(from Film Comment, 1986)
January 20, 2026 at 2:18 PM
HBD, David Lynch, missed every day 💔
(from Film Comment, 1986)
(from Film Comment, 1986)
“Obsessions are the only things that matter. Perversion interests me most and is my guiding darkness.”
HBD, 👑 Patricia Highsmith ...🖤🖤
📷Rolf Tietgens, 1942
HBD, 👑 Patricia Highsmith ...🖤🖤
📷Rolf Tietgens, 1942
January 19, 2026 at 1:35 PM
“Obsessions are the only things that matter. Perversion interests me most and is my guiding darkness.”
HBD, 👑 Patricia Highsmith ...🖤🖤
📷Rolf Tietgens, 1942
HBD, 👑 Patricia Highsmith ...🖤🖤
📷Rolf Tietgens, 1942
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ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (2025)
January 18, 2026 at 9:12 PM
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (2025)
"A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up."
HBD, the queen Eartha Kitt, born on this day ...
HBD, the queen Eartha Kitt, born on this day ...
January 17, 2026 at 4:17 PM
"A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up."
HBD, the queen Eartha Kitt, born on this day ...
HBD, the queen Eartha Kitt, born on this day ...
An outstanding and compulsively readable history. What I loved most was the smaller portraits of key women who were restricted to the periphery in past books about this era, e.g., Marcia Lucas, Melissa Mathison, Eleanor Coppola. Essential reading for movie lovers.
celadonbooks.com/book/the-las...
celadonbooks.com/book/the-las...
The Last Kings of Hollywood - Celadon Books
The untold, intimate story of how three young visionaries—Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg—revolutionized American cinema, creating the most iconic films in history while riski...
celadonbooks.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:16 PM
An outstanding and compulsively readable history. What I loved most was the smaller portraits of key women who were restricted to the periphery in past books about this era, e.g., Marcia Lucas, Melissa Mathison, Eleanor Coppola. Essential reading for movie lovers.
celadonbooks.com/book/the-las...
celadonbooks.com/book/the-las...
One of my favorite Scorsese moments, worthy of a Scorsese movie.
January 12, 2026 at 4:00 PM
One of my favorite Scorsese moments, worthy of a Scorsese movie.
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At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
January 11, 2026 at 12:48 AM
At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
“What I really wanted to do was start another Nouvelle Vague, our own New Wave.”
A lovely obit of a NYC legend.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/a...
A lovely obit of a NYC legend.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/a...
Amos Poe, New York’s No Wave Film Pioneer, Dies at 76
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 4:19 PM
“What I really wanted to do was start another Nouvelle Vague, our own New Wave.”
A lovely obit of a NYC legend.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/a...
A lovely obit of a NYC legend.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/a...
A striking production of an eerily prescient play.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/t...
‘Bug’ Review: Carrie Coon Is Superb in an American Gothic Tale
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:26 PM
A striking production of an eerily prescient play.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/t...