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Alissa Wilkinson

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Critic @nytimes. Author “We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine" (Liveright) & "Salty" (Broadleaf). Teaching @XE_NYU.

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Alissa Wilkinson is a movie critic at The New York Times. She’s the author of "Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women" (Broadleaf, 2022) and "We Tell Ourselves Stories" (Liveright, forthcoming). She is co-author, with Rob Joustra, of "How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World" (Eerdmans, 2016).

Alissa's work has appeared at Bon Appetit, Eater, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, Vulture,…