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Alissa Wilkinson

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New York
As seen in: The New York Times, Medium, MSN, MSN Ireland, O Globo, The New York Times en Español, UOL, Booktopia, Estadão, The Washington Post, Yahoo Canada and
Covers:  Culture, movies, art, theatre, TV, books, politics, religion.
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’s Biography

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, RogerEbert.com, Film Comment, The Atlantic, Books & Culture, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Paste, Pacific Standard, and others. She holds an MA in humanities and social thought from New York University and an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from Seattle Pacific University. She lives in Brooklyn.