Julia Lloyd George
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Julia Lloyd George
@jlloydgeorge.bsky.social
writer for hire. Bylines in the LA Review of Books & Times Literary Supplement. recovering Hollywood assistant.
This is a very cool history, but it’s also sad to think of how this “coaching tree” model is essentially dead in the current age of TV
For The Ringer, I wrote about the best TV coaching trees, from series that did the best job of finding and nurturing writers and/or directors who would go on to make great shows of their own:
Which TV Show Has the Best Coaching Tree?
Vince Gilligan is eternal proof of the strength of the ‘X-Files’ writers room. But frankly, that room has a ton of competition across television history.
www.theringer.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Thank you to the fabulous @jlloydgeorge.bsky.social and @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social for this Q&A on my new book, JUST PILLS, chronicling the extraordinary history of abortion pills—and of feminist networks putting these pills into women's hands despite the odds!
lareviewofbooks.org/article/pill...
Pills Have Legs | Los Angeles Review of Books
Julia Lloyd George interviews Rebecca Kelliher about her new book “Just Pills: The Extraordinary Story of a Revolution in Abortion Care.”
lareviewofbooks.org
October 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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"The review of mifepristone marks the second time in less than a week that the Trump administration has marshaled false medical claims and junk science in an effort to constrain the freedoms of pregnant women and curtail their access to relief," writes Guardian US columnist Moira Donegan.
The abortion pill is safe. But why should Trump let facts get in the way of his agenda? | Moira Donegan
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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It’s going to break your heart how many people you know, love, and respect will turn out to be cowards. Prepare yourself as best you can. You are not alone, but you are your own center. Be a strong center.
September 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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it’s pretty nuts that 9 months into trump 2.0 we need a whisper network just to get a fucking covid vaccine
September 7, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I wrote about Laila Lalami's "The Dream Hotel", a dystopian novel I still think about every time I have to sign a service agreement, for @thetls.bsky.social
More than a set of data points
If you squint, the dystopian future of Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel looks a lot like our present reality. The rules of this meticulously drawn world are
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August 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Loved this @nplusonemag.com essay on the TV novel and the “uneasy, mutually needy relationship between writing (or reading) fiction and making (or watching) television” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/rev...
New TV Novels | Lisa Borst
It’s a literature of dimming stars, smoggy drives through flammable chaparral, frequent benders, prostitutes. Flash periods of productivity where somebody bangs out a script in a week. There’s at leas...
www.nplusonemag.com
July 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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“A review is whatever a work of art brings to mind; everything is criticism.”

I’ve read a lot of “defenses” of criticism from the past decade or so, and this Brody essay is the best by a country mile. What a knock-out.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
In Defense of the Traditional Review
Far from being a journalistic relic, as suggested by recent developments at the New York Times, arts criticism is inherently progressive, keeping art honest and pointing toward its future.
www.newyorker.com
July 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Reviewed a director's memoir for the first time. 'Twas a challenge! Though I'll never complain about watching films as "homework." www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
Propagating chaos | TLS
The most impressive fact about the Spanish film-maker Albert Serra’s fragmented memoir, A Toast to St Martirià, is that its central essay came from a speech that was “entirely improvised”, according t...
www.the-tls.co.uk
April 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I had so much fun reading and re-reading Christopher Bollen's "Havoc", a thriller set in an Egyptian hotel during lockdown, for @thetls.bsky.social. If you're sad about "The White Lotus" ending this Sunday, this might be for you!
Havoc by Christopher Bollen | Book review | The TLS
The chaos agents who drive Christopher Bollen’s latest thriller belong to two of the most easily overlooked demographics: an old woman and a child. The
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April 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism
March 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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A reminder that fiction — books, film, games, what have you — is always political. The willful absence of “politics” in any work is itself a political choice and a political act. Who gets to tell (and sell) stories is political. It might be an undercurrent — covert, not overt. But it’s there.
February 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Thinking about the time some guy was trying to convince me that RFK Jr was “carrying the torch for the Kennedys”
Here is Caroline Kennedy absolutely coming for RFK Jr, a "predator" whose behavior, she says, would leave both her father and his "disgusted." www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLLx...
Caroline Kennedy reads her letter to Senators denouncing her “predator” cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
YouTube video by The Golden Circle
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January 30, 2025 at 2:34 AM