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writer — New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, NYT, Pitchfork, GQ, etc. writing a novel. bradybricknerwood.com
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wrote about the stunning dijon album for the new yorker:
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The Fiery Mania of Dijon’s “Baby”
The album’s frantic, unruly nature aims to communicate the madness of living with big feelings—emotions that are difficult to process and to hold to the light.
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August 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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i wrote this
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Jul 16
Up until recently, Justin Bieber had “never made a great album, not even a very good one,” Brady Brickner-Wood writes. “SWAG,” his seventh studio album, is the first to hover above his noisy celebrity, to make a case for his own specificity.
Justin Bieber’s Messy, Improbable Masterpiece
“SWAG” is the artist’s first album to hover above his noisy celebrity, to make a case for its own specificity.
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July 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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catch me on the new yorker's political scene podcast, in conversation with my wonderful editor Tyler
www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...
What Does It Mean to Resist Trump in 2025?
“I think the Democrats have worked themselves into a bit of a corner,” the writer Brady Brickner-Wood says. “They’re going to need to soul search in a way that’s not just performative and is consisten...
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February 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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i wrote this
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Feb 5
After Donald Trump’s election in 2016, establishing a cultural and a political resistance to his Administration was a project of urgent importance. Why does the resistance feel diminished this time around?
What Happened to the Trump Resistance?
If the President’s first term was colored with protests and hashtags, his second has so far been characterized by a lack of dissidence.
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February 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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my latest for @newyorker.com — what was the "#resistance," anyway? why did it fail to generate large-scale social and political change? & why are the democrats down to run back the same failed strategy/messaging? this and more:
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
What Happened to the Trump Resistance?
If the President’s first term was colored with protests and hashtags, his second has so far been characterized by a lack of dissidence.
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February 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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When social-media users and tech reporters, en masse, spurned this year’s Spotify Wrapped, the referendum had an air of epiphany: was knowing how many minutes we listened to music worth all the data mining and craven appeals to our vanity?
The Hollow Allure of Spotify Wrapped
This year’s recap, with A.I. bots and uninspired presentation, revealed a company that seems chiefly concerned with profit margins and squashing its competition.
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December 10, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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hello i have a short story coming out in the winter issue of @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/edition/fixa...
LARB Quarterly #43: Fixation | Los Angeles Review of Books
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December 4, 2024 at 2:57 PM