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I Love LA – Episode 1, Review
By Sammy Ginsberg Decided to watch I Love LA since my cousin is watching it and the billboards and some posts on Instagram! Also the main character lives in Los Feliz just like me! The first episode is making me spiral. Someone said it’s supposed to be satire. Is it an exaggeration or is it…
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Event Review: Melissa Febos talking about The Dry Season, with Q&A by Maggie Nelson at Skylight Books
By Sammy Ginsberg Typically we only tend to write book reviews, however, the traditional way of selling books is to host an event at a bookstore to try to get you to buy the book. These events are usually free, therefore the only money made is in buying the book. At the same time, trying…
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Book Review: Service by John Tottenham
By Sammy Ginsberg Just finished reading Service by John Tottenham. Stumbled upon John’s launch party at 2220. The room was packed with big names in literature introducing the book – Colm Toibin and Rachel Kushner – and was published by Semiotexte, aka publisher of the artistic and academic elite in Los Angeles. Over a hundred people…
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Book Review: Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
Just finished reading Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way we Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown at the bar at Tabula Rasa and now understand why I started crying before work, and decided to take a mental health day this morning. And why I burnt out at my…
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Event Review: LA Zine Fest 2025
It’s been a dream of mine to table at a zine fest, and yesterday I did it!! It was amazing and even better than I hoped it would be, which a surreal and rare feeling. I’ve been making zines for the last ten years. I started in college (that’s when I sold my first one…
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Film Review: Exhibiting Forgiveness (2024)
This film is my favorite movie of 2024, even after going off about Queer and A Complete Unknown, this movie was fucking beautiful and profound and moving. Exhibiting Forgiveness is raw and genuine with such a story! Titus’s kids were growing up and kept asking about his childhood, but he didn’t know how to talk…
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Film Review: Queer(2024)
While I’m freewriting reviews about A Complete Unknown, I also saw Queer and it was transportive and mesmerizing and nostalgic. Another time period I studied and am obsessed with – I presented at the European Beat Studies Conference in Vienna and have gone to two others, as well as studying at the Jack Kerouac School…
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Film Review: A Complete Unknown (2024)
Just back from seeing A Complete Unknown at Los Feliz 3 and felt inspired to write a freewrite like review about the movie. Oh it was so fun and transportive. Been seeing a lot of transportive films recently about my favorite time periods that I’ve studied! Oh yes the joy – having taken a folk…
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Film Review: Anora directed by Sean Baker (2024)
Been seeing a lot of movies recently – hey I live in LA okay! I consider myself more of a book person, but I also want to have friends, and going to movies is a lot more of a social activity. Anora! What a film! My roommate saw it twice and even got a shirt.…
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Film Review: A Real Pain written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg (2024)
I’m part of a film club, and so we decided to see A Real Pain at the Alamo Drafthouse in DTLA. If you wanna join the club, just contact me and can invite you to the next one! This film was some honest white Jewish boy problems that was raw and vulnerable and spoke to…