Annie Berke
@sayanniething.bsky.social
Senior editor @ LARB, freelance culture writer, mom in the DC burbs. Here for the nuanced takes, the good faith arguments, and the jokes
What does this little blue-tagged text box thing mean in a Word document? Why is it there, and how do I make it go away?
Thanks, word nerds! ;)
Thanks, word nerds! ;)
November 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
What does this little blue-tagged text box thing mean in a Word document? Why is it there, and how do I make it go away?
Thanks, word nerds! ;)
Thanks, word nerds! ;)
Waterloo Bridge (1930)
May 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Waterloo Bridge (1930)
Some nerve! Where does this “Jeffrey Toobin” character get off anyway?
December 2, 2024 at 10:02 PM
Some nerve! Where does this “Jeffrey Toobin” character get off anyway?
November 7, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Get your hands on the Sept. print issue of @newrepublic — with @kamalaharris on the cover — and hold my review of FLY ME TO THE MOON! In your *hands*! Print is fun 🙌
August 24, 2024 at 1:45 PM
Get your hands on the Sept. print issue of @newrepublic — with @kamalaharris on the cover — and hold my review of FLY ME TO THE MOON! In your *hands*! Print is fun 🙌
Thanks to the kind invitation and generous guidance of @AmmonFrancesca and @bgoldst, I am a contributor to the #NEH Sunset Over Sunset project with my essay on Ed Ruscha's movie marquee photography.
Please check it out!
www.sunsetoversunset.org/stories
Please check it out!
www.sunsetoversunset.org/stories
August 5, 2024 at 12:45 AM
Thanks to the kind invitation and generous guidance of @AmmonFrancesca and @bgoldst, I am a contributor to the #NEH Sunset Over Sunset project with my essay on Ed Ruscha's movie marquee photography.
Please check it out!
www.sunsetoversunset.org/stories
Please check it out!
www.sunsetoversunset.org/stories
"Her performances interrogate the images and myths that make up our shared history... Dunst’s body of work teaches us that all period pieces are anachronisms, and all histories are revisionist."
Thanks, @mubi Notebook, for the chance to write this!
Thanks, @mubi Notebook, for the chance to write this!
June 3, 2024 at 7:21 PM
"Her performances interrogate the images and myths that make up our shared history... Dunst’s body of work teaches us that all period pieces are anachronisms, and all histories are revisionist."
Thanks, @mubi Notebook, for the chance to write this!
Thanks, @mubi Notebook, for the chance to write this!
Lastly, as I try to bring more first person into my criticism, I am eyeing Zinsser's "Writing About Your Life" but am open to alternate suggestions...
www.dacapopress.com/titles/willi...
www.dacapopress.com/titles/willi...
December 30, 2023 at 4:58 PM
Lastly, as I try to bring more first person into my criticism, I am eyeing Zinsser's "Writing About Your Life" but am open to alternate suggestions...
www.dacapopress.com/titles/willi...
www.dacapopress.com/titles/willi...
Speaking of short, two @rosemetalpress.bsky.social titles I'd love a buddy for:
FIELD GUIDE TO WRITING FLASH NONFICTION
and
MY VERY END OF THE UNIVERSE: FIVE NOVELLAS-IN-FLASH AND A STUDY OF FORM
Turn your distracted, constantly interrupted lifestyle into art with me!
FIELD GUIDE TO WRITING FLASH NONFICTION
and
MY VERY END OF THE UNIVERSE: FIVE NOVELLAS-IN-FLASH AND A STUDY OF FORM
Turn your distracted, constantly interrupted lifestyle into art with me!
December 30, 2023 at 4:55 PM
Speaking of short, two @rosemetalpress.bsky.social titles I'd love a buddy for:
FIELD GUIDE TO WRITING FLASH NONFICTION
and
MY VERY END OF THE UNIVERSE: FIVE NOVELLAS-IN-FLASH AND A STUDY OF FORM
Turn your distracted, constantly interrupted lifestyle into art with me!
FIELD GUIDE TO WRITING FLASH NONFICTION
and
MY VERY END OF THE UNIVERSE: FIVE NOVELLAS-IN-FLASH AND A STUDY OF FORM
Turn your distracted, constantly interrupted lifestyle into art with me!
In the last couple of years, I've returned to fiction writing, a pursuit I let go by the wayside after college. So here come those titles. Laura Portwood-Stacer sent me her copy of Stephen King's ON WRITING, so I'm hoping it has cross-over appeal!
stephenking.com/works/nonfic...
stephenking.com/works/nonfic...
December 30, 2023 at 4:51 PM
In the last couple of years, I've returned to fiction writing, a pursuit I let go by the wayside after college. So here come those titles. Laura Portwood-Stacer sent me her copy of Stephen King's ON WRITING, so I'm hoping it has cross-over appeal!
stephenking.com/works/nonfic...
stephenking.com/works/nonfic...
Balancing strategy with inspiration is... well, some people are great at it, but not me. Jane Friedman, teach me how to be a business lady!
businessofwriting.org
businessofwriting.org
December 30, 2023 at 4:49 PM
Balancing strategy with inspiration is... well, some people are great at it, but not me. Jane Friedman, teach me how to be a business lady!
businessofwriting.org
businessofwriting.org
Double feature: Pamela Haag's REVISE. The cover art alone was enough to sell me, but it looks like a great companion, counterpoint to Germano.
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
December 30, 2023 at 4:46 PM
Double feature: Pamela Haag's REVISE. The cover art alone was enough to sell me, but it looks like a great companion, counterpoint to Germano.
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
If you are doing/did a PhD and didn't read Germano's book on turning your dissertation into a book, how did you *live*? Anyway, I'd love to read his book on revision, because I'm one of those jerks who dreads the first draft and loves revising...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
December 30, 2023 at 4:44 PM
If you are doing/did a PhD and didn't read Germano's book on turning your dissertation into a book, how did you *live*? Anyway, I'd love to read his book on revision, because I'm one of those jerks who dreads the first draft and loves revising...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
I am absolutely an evangelist for Helen Sword, and while 2023 was a very busy year for me in terms of writing productivity, it wasn't necessarily a peak in terms of joy and pleasure. Writing for a living can be a slog! I'm here for a good time, not a long time ;)
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 30, 2023 at 4:42 PM
I am absolutely an evangelist for Helen Sword, and while 2023 was a very busy year for me in terms of writing productivity, it wasn't necessarily a peak in terms of joy and pleasure. Writing for a living can be a slog! I'm here for a good time, not a long time ;)
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
November 3, 2023 at 12:43 AM
Thanks so much to Jennifer Dougherty for sharing this with me... my review of TERRACE STORY for Washington Post was featured in THE WEEK!
October 12, 2023 at 3:57 PM
Thanks so much to Jennifer Dougherty for sharing this with me... my review of TERRACE STORY for Washington Post was featured in THE WEEK!
Check out my #september #reads! 📚
October 1, 2023 at 3:00 AM
Check out my #september #reads! 📚
Check out my #august #reads 📚
September 4, 2023 at 2:16 AM
Check out my #august #reads 📚
BRB gotta go whine, cope, and seethe
August 29, 2023 at 6:05 PM
BRB gotta go whine, cope, and seethe
Welcome to Bluesky, or whatever.
August 19, 2023 at 6:34 PM
Welcome to Bluesky, or whatever.
For research: who remembers, keenly, fondly, furiously, when Gosling and McAdams won Best Kiss at the @MTV Movie Awards?
August 17, 2023 at 5:42 PM
For research: who remembers, keenly, fondly, furiously, when Gosling and McAdams won Best Kiss at the @MTV Movie Awards?
Everyman persona? Um… what?
Also, if all the Notorious RBG totes or whatever have led us to a place where Justices have to—nay, GET TO—cultivate personas like TikTok influencers instead of live quiet lives like legally-minded monks, I’m sorry for ALL of it!!!
Also, if all the Notorious RBG totes or whatever have led us to a place where Justices have to—nay, GET TO—cultivate personas like TikTok influencers instead of live quiet lives like legally-minded monks, I’m sorry for ALL of it!!!
August 5, 2023 at 3:50 PM
Everyman persona? Um… what?
Also, if all the Notorious RBG totes or whatever have led us to a place where Justices have to—nay, GET TO—cultivate personas like TikTok influencers instead of live quiet lives like legally-minded monks, I’m sorry for ALL of it!!!
Also, if all the Notorious RBG totes or whatever have led us to a place where Justices have to—nay, GET TO—cultivate personas like TikTok influencers instead of live quiet lives like legally-minded monks, I’m sorry for ALL of it!!!