Michelle Orange

Author of PURE FLAME (2021), and THIS IS RUNNING FOR YOUR LIFE (both FSG). Terrible at Twitter.

[Michelle Orange @michelleorange]

Happy birthday to PURE FLAME, and to my mom, who would have turned 77 today. I’m so grateful for this considered, generous review: https://t.co/hcNrymdKpA

[Michelle Orange @michelleorange]

In honor of Madonna Day, my 2023 @NewYorker piece on one of our greatest artists and most electrifying performers. https://t.co/ZVJrW4B04p

[Melissa E Anderson @MelissEAnderson]

“Romvari emphasizes the fracturing effects of Jeremy’s chaos, the way trauma can isolate, replicating the estrangement from which it springs.” — @michelleorange on BLUE HERON, in this week’s @4_columns. https://t.co/jYtu8ClBjC

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“​​Plenty of Leni Riefenstahl’s signature self-pity and prevarication is on display here, redolent now as ever of the many uses of doublespeak.”—@michelleorange writes about “Riefenstahl,” the new documentary directed by Andres Veiel https://t.co/45eIKH4iyq

[Melissa E Anderson @MelissEAnderson]

"The context Riefenstahl insisted upon, across decades spent trying to puzzle together a viable edit of her own story, is also what condemns her." —@michelleorange on RIEFENSTAHL, in this week's @4_columns. https://t.co/CYLcwAnw82

[Longreads @Longreads]

This week's Top 5:

➡️ Dark-web dealing
➡️ A cruel tradition
➡️ Revisiting Twain
➡️ Flushing in flux
➡️ An unlikely reunion

https://t.co/vlv84NljVF

[Longreads @Longreads]

"They have names like Hashtag Uppity, Flamin Paws, Mizzen the Point, and Corona Virus. . . At top speed, the greyhound inhabits its modern ensign: almost completely horizontal, a flying em dash." @michelleorange @oxfordamerican
https://t.co/EnfxwWl5mB

[Michelle Orange @michelleorange]

My new story about the last two active greyhound racetracks in the country, for @oxfordamerican, is also a sneak preview of DOG PEOPLE, forthcoming from @astrahousebooks. https://t.co/pZX1xUhaW4

[Michelle Orange @michelleorange]

For your long-weekend reading list--then check out the whole terrific issue.

[Oxford American @oxfordamerican]

“Why does a man gamble? What makes a greyhound run?” —#MichelleOrange explores the tangled past and unsettled future of greyhound racing in West Virginia in this new preview of our Summer 2025 Y’all Street Issue!

https://t.co/NaDNabMH0a

Art by Clare Menck

[Melissa E Anderson @MelissEAnderson]

“Unlike the novel, Almodóvar paves a smooth and stylish path for Martha’s departure…focusing on a friendship that lacks the spark of life.” —@michelleorange on THE ROOM NEXT DOOR, in this week’s @4_columns. https://t.co/VCJIBrkUX3

[Michelle Orange @michelleorange]

I wrote about THE ROOM NEXT DOOR, Pedro Almodóvar's solemn, strangely hollow first English-language feature, @4_columns https://t.co/vjxoFnHpHb

[Michelle Orange @michelleorange]

After 21 years in the U.S., this immigrant and newly naturalized citizen has voted in her first federal election. If you haven't already and if you can: please, please vote today.

[Michelle Orange @michelleorange]

@michelledean She has...mellowed some over the years.

[Michelle Orange @michelleorange]

Ten years today with this beauty girl.

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“In its willingness to linger, to foreground character as a function of existence in time, Annie Baker’s film is closely allied with the work of Chantal Akerman: scenes of gloom and stillness offset by streaks of life.”—@michelleorange on “Janet Planet” https://t.co/QIW6EyLnOE

[Michelle Orange @michelleorange]

@alanziegler @likaluca Seconding, I stumbled upon it and bought a print of the mosaic there to remember the amazement of that discovery. Walking the Appia Antica: also unforgettable.

[Michelle Orange @michelleorange]

@DavidCote I hope you love the movie, and thank you. 🙏

[Michelle Orange @michelleorange]

I wrote about Annie Baker's JANET PLANET and its portrait of a most tender mother-daughter rupture @4_columns. https://t.co/QE75y9kzbS

[Michelle Orange @michelleorange]

I get to speak with Geoffrey Mak about MEAN BOYS, his extraordinary debut, at @booksaremagicbk tonight, come join us!