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Michelle Dean
@michelledean.bsky.social
I wrote for websites & I wrote for magazines & I wrote a book called SHARP & I wrote a TV show called THE ACT & now I hope to find some meaning in life again (but am unfortunately mired in Hollywood) 🇨🇦
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I made a starter pack of the best narrative journalists in America. It's a vanishing art but one still worth a lot.

If I haven't added you yet and you clearly meet this description, it's just because I haven't found you on Bluesky.

go.bsky.app/45aomyC
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Then this is the substack for you: alifeofcrime.substack.com/p/1-why-im-e...
#1: Why I'm Embarking on A Life of Crime
The truth about true crime is that we're all drowning in it.
alifeofcrime.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Do you have a simultaneous attraction and allergy to "true crime"? When you dip your toes in do you feel like they come away stained with blood and greed?
October 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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I was already subbed and you should too.
October 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Do you have a simultaneous attraction and allergy to "true crime"? When you dip your toes in do you feel like they come away stained with blood and greed?
October 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
@janeespenson.bsky.social I am so honored you follow me at all! I was the kind of Buffy fan who knew all the writers’ names back in the day, you’re a heroine of mine.
August 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
It’s time to rewatch Buffy and Angel.
August 17, 2025 at 3:46 AM
A lot more WHITE LOTUS crossover with ALIEN EARTH than anyone was expecting
August 13, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I have no Canadians at hand to discuss this Don McKellar strike-breaking situation with
August 9, 2025 at 3:40 AM
there’s a lot of delusional property pricing out there rn
August 9, 2025 at 3:22 AM
my review of [redacted] is mixed except that I would like an Oscar for Amy Madigan
August 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I regret that I may have to start a substack
August 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
“elevated horror movie weekend” Is my favourite kind of movie weekend
August 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
People have outsized moral expectations of actors.
August 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Marilyn Monroe passed away on this date in 1962. Monroe and Joe DiMaggio carved their initials into the Coq d’Or cocktail lounge’s wooden bar at the former Cape Cod Room in Chicago. hometownstohollywood.com/travels/cape... #MarilynMonroe #Marilyn #Monroe #Chicago #CapeCodRoom
August 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
the end of the gilded age tonight had the production values of an Ed Wood movie, with none of the self-awareness
July 28, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I miss Peak TV and the new movies in the theatre every week. Yeah, a lot of it was bad and lazy. But at least there were interesting experiments to watch at night, in the theatres. Now there's just nothing. I hate it.
July 25, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Just remembered the classic CanLit novel about an archivist who has sex with a bear.
July 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Would also like to suggest SUCH BRAVE GIRLS to anyone with a sense of humor.
July 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
It would be so much easier to get through this time if there were more resources for art-making.
July 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Completely obsessed with Will Sharpe’s performance in TOO MUCH.

Also Adèle Exarchopoulos but that goes without saying.
July 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I am writing all the time but unable to comment on anything in real time anymore.
July 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I return to check out the WHITE LOTUS memes.
April 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
tfw you are not alone
March 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
a weird thing about the Pitt is that one of the “nurses” is actually a nurse at the urgent care we use
March 7, 2025 at 2:28 AM