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alissawilkinson.bsky.social
Movie critic at @nytimes.com. Author of "We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine" (3/11/25) and "Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women" (2022). I teach writing & criticism, presently at NYU.
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NYC: I’m teaching a weekend workshop for nonfiction writers (but also, whoever) on a topic I am utterly obsessed with, at Brooklyn’s Center for Fiction. April 12-13! centerforfiction.org/group-worksh...

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Finally used my airline lounge pass for the first time and I gotta say: that is worth it

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

Google’s AI, so helpful

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My wishlist for these Oscars is that Conan’s writers take the time to come up with some bit that isn’t about how nobody has seen the nominees. At least provide citations

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Here's one small thing to look forward to: An opera of THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY coming to the Metropolitan Opera in September. www.metopera.org/season/2025-...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

If you leverage AI in literature review, CHECK THOSE REFERENCES. I just finished reading through a proposal on a topic that I knew well, and thus was surprised to see several papers referenced that I hadn't known of. Then when I looked them up online, I found they didn't exist. 7 fake references.

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I have previously announced on many occasions that writing a book is impossible and nobody has ever done it. But I would now like to add that promoting a book is also infeasible and no one has ever successfully tried

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Can someone explain what the Zoomers mean when they say “third places”? They’ve redefined the term and I can’t quite figure it out

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

I think near-constantly lately about how the definition of “power” is the ability to define reality

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Hey! Guess what! You can come hear me talk about Joan Didion, Hollywood, American political culture, and WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES (@liveright.bsky.social) very soon. There's even a virtual date!

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

If you have ever had the fortune/misfortune of being in one of my writing workshops you will understand how excited I am to have not one but TWO upcoming reasons to haul my old MFA thesis on the second person out of the attic

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Oh, because of one tiny tidbit in here that I didn’t reveal and they were very concerned that I do know about. Everyone was lovely. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/m...

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