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Annie Berke

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Takoma Park, United States
Covers:  Film, Television, Literature, Gender & Feminism, Comedy, Media Industry, Acting and Performance, Jewish Representation

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Annie Berke’s Biography

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Writer - Editor - Cultural Critic

My book, Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television (January 2022) is the first volume in the University of California Press’ new Feminist Media Histories series. Read my criticism and scholarship in the Washington Post, Ms., Feminist Media Histories, Literary Hub, and Public Books.

I edit for the Film/TV section of the Los Angeles Review of Books (see Editing) and have 10+ years experience teaching at the college level, curating film events,…

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Committing to the High Romance of The Notebook

Committing to the High Romance of The Notebook

Critical, Darling: On Nicole Holofcener and 'You Hurt My Feelings' - The Village Voice

Critical, Darling: On Nicole Holofcener and 'You Hurt My Feelings' - The Village Voice

Author Katherine Heiny on How to Read the Room

Author Katherine Heiny on How to Read the Room

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

For LA Review of Books, I use Microsoft 365 products. At the New Books Network, I record interviews using Zencastr.

What's your favorite social network?

Twitter, because it's the only one I think Oscar Wilde would even *consider*

Why did you become a journalist?

Coming from academia (PhD in American Studies & Film), I look to translate my expertise for a public audience with insight and humor.