Bruce Handy
@brucehandy.bsky.social
Adult stuff: New Yorker, NYT, The Atlantic, elsewhere. Latest book: “Hollywood High: A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies.” Kid stuff: picture books including “There Was a Shadow” and (coming October 14) “Balloon.”
I wrote an op-ed about Bruce Springsteen’s breakthrough moment in the context of aspirational 1970s male rock stardom (I.e. what he meant to doofy normcore teenage boys like me)…
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...
October 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I wrote an op-ed about Bruce Springsteen’s breakthrough moment in the context of aspirational 1970s male rock stardom (I.e. what he meant to doofy normcore teenage boys like me)…
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...
I talked comedy and politics and cowardly networks with Dick Smothers.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
October 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I talked comedy and politics and cowardly networks with Dick Smothers.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Just caught this lovely “Briefly Noted” that ran in last week’s New Yorker. Thank you anonymous critic! The last line summarizes the book way better than I ever have.
September 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Just caught this lovely “Briefly Noted” that ran in last week’s New Yorker. Thank you anonymous critic! The last line summarizes the book way better than I ever have.
As seen in print Vanity Fair!
June 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
As seen in print Vanity Fair!
Doomscrolling old school.
June 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Doomscrolling old school.
June 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
You know you’re in France when the train station newsstand has a Vivian Maier bookazine.
June 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
You know you’re in France when the train station newsstand has a Vivian Maier bookazine.
How it started.
How it’s going.
How it’s going.
June 13, 2025 at 6:35 AM
How it started.
How it’s going.
How it’s going.
June 7, 2025 at 10:04 AM
A perspicacious (IMHO) review of Hollywood High by Mark Judge in the @washingtonexaminer. Behind a paywall, but here’s the money quote….
May 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
A perspicacious (IMHO) review of Hollywood High by Mark Judge in the @washingtonexaminer. Behind a paywall, but here’s the money quote….
Is there a through line from Gidget to Bella Swan? What do Kahuna and Edward Cullen have in common? Find out one week from today! (Or watch the movies yourself!)
May 14, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Is there a through line from Gidget to Bella Swan? What do Kahuna and Edward Cullen have in common? Find out one week from today! (Or watch the movies yourself!)
Hollywood High is in very nice company (Amanda Hess, Keith McNally, Ocean Vuong, and more) on a very cool list. Thank you Emma Alpern and Vulture
www.vulture.com/article/new-...
www.vulture.com/article/new-...
May 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Hollywood High is in very nice company (Amanda Hess, Keith McNally, Ocean Vuong, and more) on a very cool list. Thank you Emma Alpern and Vulture
www.vulture.com/article/new-...
www.vulture.com/article/new-...
April 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The one person in America suffering from Biden Derangement Syndrome.
April 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The one person in America suffering from Biden Derangement Syndrome.
Good news: Poland is hiring.
March 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Good news: Poland is hiring.
And that’s a wrap! Just finished the final tweaks on Hollywood High, so it’s off to the printer. Publishes on May 20th.
Also got a nice Kirkus review over the weekend: “A well-informed conversation starter… Good, smart, occasionally naughty fun.” Occasionally naughty!
Also got a nice Kirkus review over the weekend: “A well-informed conversation starter… Good, smart, occasionally naughty fun.” Occasionally naughty!
March 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
And that’s a wrap! Just finished the final tweaks on Hollywood High, so it’s off to the printer. Publishes on May 20th.
Also got a nice Kirkus review over the weekend: “A well-informed conversation starter… Good, smart, occasionally naughty fun.” Occasionally naughty!
Also got a nice Kirkus review over the weekend: “A well-informed conversation starter… Good, smart, occasionally naughty fun.” Occasionally naughty!
Are subtweets still a thing?
February 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Are subtweets still a thing?
An all-timer from a couple weeks ago.
January 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
An all-timer from a couple weeks ago.
NYT best-selling novelist Helen Schulman (also my wife) started this terrific Paris-based writing program, now in its third year. Check it out…
January 26, 2025 at 12:37 AM
NYT best-selling novelist Helen Schulman (also my wife) started this terrific Paris-based writing program, now in its third year. Check it out…