Annie Berke-but call me @sayanniething.bsky.social

(she/her) - senior hum (film/TV) ed @lareviewofbooks - culture writer @newrepublic @nytimes @washingtonpost @LitHub @villagevoice @wcp @theavclub @yalereview

[Annie Berke-but call me @sayanniething.bsky.social @sayanniething]

Happy Monday, everyone... Gird your loins, I started a Substack: it's called TWO HATS!

It's about the culture of writing / writing about culture, and it's totally free.

Please check it out, subscribe, and share <3

https://t.co/z0jv1D6Lep

[Annie Berke-but call me @sayanniething.bsky.social @sayanniething]

@matthiasellis When you say "people," do you mean acting teachers (Stella Adler? Lee Strasberg?) or, like, normies? I have a feeling it started in the drama schools, but I could be wrong.

[Annie Berke-but call me @sayanniething.bsky.social @sayanniething]

this essay is *canon*

(laboringggg to turn "canon" into slang, like trying to make fetch happen)

[Los Angeles Review of Books @LAReviewofBooks]

"The oeuvre of every great poet is a canon unto itself, and Bloom’s ideal required an authoritative canon of canons."

Alex Lanz on Harold Bloom and the context of "The Man Who Read Everything": https://t.co/ZRSEiSGkKr

[Annie Berke-but call me @sayanniething.bsky.social @sayanniething]

Wonderful review of a beautiful film (or beautiful review of a wonderful film, take your pick)

[Los Angeles Review of Books @LAReviewofBooks]

"The pleasures and practice of poetry exist in the world, even if our pens do not always draw lines around it."

Frank Falisi reviews Kent Jones's film "Late Fame": https://t.co/tTpLRFK9Sx

[Annie Berke-but call me @sayanniething.bsky.social @sayanniething]

@RVoronaCote literally sitting down to write about this movie as this pops up on my timeline

[Los Angeles Review of Books @LAReviewofBooks]

"As Bloom said to John Ashbery after this quarrel, 'I am maturing as a writer, but seeing also that I will wither rather than mature emotionally.'"

Alex Lanz on "The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom": https://t.co/ZRSEiSGkKr

[Annie Berke-but call me @sayanniething.bsky.social @sayanniething]

@Jacob_Brogan phew.

[Annie Berke-but call me @sayanniething.bsky.social @sayanniething]

@Jacob_Brogan ps. academic twitter, i'm kidding. pls don't come for me, i'm a lowly faculty wife.

[Annie Berke-but call me @sayanniething.bsky.social @sayanniething]

@Jacob_Brogan Compromise: it's both. Miles comes in with a particular expectation of what country life and its people will be, and then he finds an opportunity to get lost in the best of all ways (by quitting academia).

[Annie Berke-but call me @sayanniething.bsky.social @sayanniething]

@Jacob_Brogan Okay... for me?... it's because both books are about the category of the "country person" is made up, a cultural invention rather than a real actual thing you might find IN THE WILD (or that what you find isn't at all like the influencers or academics say...)

[Annie Berke-but call me @sayanniething.bsky.social @sayanniething]

College professors, this is what you put in your syllabus as “Policy on AI Usage.”

From John Steinbeck’s EAST OF EDEN (1952)—

[Annie Berke-but call me @sayanniething.bsky.social @sayanniething]

I enjoy THE PAPER more than I ever liked THE OFFICE.

[Annie Berke-but call me @sayanniething.bsky.social @sayanniething]

Look, I love Melissa McCarthy, and I can see I'm in the minority here, but why was my first thought "oh no no no no no"?

[Netflix @netflix]

Two Oscar-nominated actors. One of the most consequential cases in American memory.

Melissa McCarthy and Clive Owen star as Patsy and John Ramsey in The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey. Premiering December 10.

[Annie Berke-but call me @sayanniething.bsky.social @sayanniething]

Emmys on tonight, so of course my mind goes here--

https://t.co/NfWQzBHRmi

[Jacob Brogan @Jacob_Brogan]

Now do a books section

[Annie Berke-but call me @sayanniething.bsky.social @sayanniething]

@judysquirrels what range! i mean these but then also BIG LEBOWSKI? BOOGIE NIGHTS? 30 ROCK??

[Annie Berke-but call me @sayanniething.bsky.social @sayanniething]

The holiday weekend is over, time to go back to avoiding work at work by reading my newest Substack post ;)

[Annie Berke-but call me @sayanniething.bsky.social @sayanniething]

My new post on Coyote vs. Acme, May December, and whose pain is funniest went live this AM on Substack -- please check it out and, if you like it, please subscribe (it's free) --

https://t.co/iNV9Nkl9un

[Rachel Vorona Cote @RVoronaCote]

Before Emerald Fennell's adaptation of "Wuthering Heights" was released, an editor commissioned an essay from me on it. It was later killed. For months, I wasn't sure what, if anything, to do with it. Today I decided to publish it in my newsletter:

https://t.co/f4l3f0lhJg

[Annie Berke-but call me @sayanniething.bsky.social @sayanniething]

I'll never stop watching this clip, never.

[ana @shivlestat]

you just had to be there

[Annie Berke-but call me @sayanniething.bsky.social @sayanniething]

special thanks to my editor on this, @RVoronaCote

[Annie Berke-but call me @sayanniething.bsky.social @sayanniething]

My new post on Coyote vs. Acme, May December, and whose pain is funniest went live this AM on Substack -- please check it out and, if you like it, please subscribe (it's free) --

https://t.co/iNV9Nkl9un