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Deputy culture editor for strategy & operations at The New York Times. Ex-WSJ. Former resident of Hong Kong and Brussels. #IStandWithEvan
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Halloween Movie Watch Party: Let’s All ‘Scream’ Original

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By Barbara Chai Verified
| The New York Times Verified
I’ll be the first one to admit I’m not the biggest horror fan. It’s not that I can’t appreciate the use of sound to build suspense or marvel at a deep character study of a villain. Or that I don’t love freaking out in a movie theater with a loud audience. I can, and I do! It’s just, I like being able to sleep at night. And if I watch a certain kind of horror movie, I know I’ll become paralyzed by a fear of the night outside my glass doors, or by shower curtains. I’m a bit of a horror wuss.
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Tess Felder joins Culture at The New York Times - Editor and Publisher

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By Sia Michel Verified, Michael Cooper, Matt Anderson Verified, Barbara Chai Verified
| Editor & Publisher Verified
We are delighted to announce that Tess Felder will be joining the Culture desk as a senior staff editor in London. Tess will assign, edit and write news stories and quick-turnaround off-the-news features, working with our European culture editor, Matt Anderson, and reporter Alex Marshall. European culture is a big patch — covering everything from contemporary art to TV across the continent — and Tess will help us keep on top of news events and follow pop culture trends as they bubble up.
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In 'Interior Chinatown,' the Sets Have Main Character Energy Original

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By Barbara Chai Verified
| The New York Times Verified
Charles Yu's novel "Interior Chinatown" is about stories. Stories we tell ourselves, stories we tell about others. Stories where only certain people get to be the main characters while others, like the protagonist Willis Wu, are relegated to playing bit parts. Yu structured the novel in the format of a screenplay. The title follows the scriptwriting convention of scene headings, which specify where the action is taking place (for example, INT. UNMARKED POLICE CAR).
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