For Your (Re)Consideration

Allison Picurro is a writer and critic from New Jersey, whose semi-weekly Substack newsletter, Boy Movies, has been going strong since 2022. Her work has been featured on TV Guide, Vanity Fair, IndieWire, Harper’s Bazaar, and more.

LINKS & MENTIONS

* Subscribe to Boy Movies

* Boy Movies #118

* Gossip Time

* The Lizzie McGuire Movie Soundtrack

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* CORRECTION: In the episode, I mention that Bram Stoker’s Dracula was published in 1899. Dracula was actually published in 1897.

Tia Glista is a Toronto-based arts writer and PhD candidate. Her criticism and essays on gender in film, literature, and art have appeared in The Guardian, Toronto Star, Los Angeles Review of Books, Dazed, Document Journal, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She is a co-founder and Reviews Editor at Toronto Review.

LINKS & MENTIONS

* You can follow Tia on Instagram @tiaglista and subscribe to No Outlet on Substack

* Read Toronto Review (Tia’s interview w/ Brian Dillon)

* Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” (1894), “Lilacs” (1894), “Desiree’s Baby” (1893)

* Elaine Showalter, “Shakespeare’s Sister”

* Alisha Mughal, The Archaic Mother’s Embrace: How “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” and “Die My Love” Reframe the Monstrous

* Vivian Gornick, Unfinished Business (2020)

* Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth (1905)

* Lauren Groff, Matrix (2021)

* Claire Luchette, Agatha of Little Neon (2021)

* Charlotte Wood, Stoneyard Devotional (2023)

* Nella Larsen, Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929)

* Mary MacLane, I Await the Devil’s Coming (1901)

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Heather Akumiah is a writer based in New York. She’s the author of the YA novel Bad Witches and co-host of the podcast Limousine. She’s currently at work on a collection of literary short stories.

LINKS & MENTIONS

* Follow Heather on Instagram @hizzaire

* Buy Bad Witches

* Listen to Limousine

* Richard Brody, “The Empty Exertions of La La Land” (The New Yorker)

* John Powers, “La La Land Director Damien Chazelle Used to Really Hate Musicals” (Vogue)

* A.O. Scott, “Review: Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone Aswirl in Tra La La Land” (The New York Times)

* Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009, dir. Damien Chazelle)

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