Commonplace Book
Alissa WilkinsonThings I picked up along the way. Written by Alissa Wilkinson.
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A few things of note
Hello friends!
I am making a little pit stop in your inbox with a few announcements and things that might be of interest to you, and also some well wishes. Mostly I hope you are doing okay. Everything feels uphill, and I hope you’re doing...
How to be a movie critic
For many years, on a very regular basis, I get emails from aspiring film critics who want to know how to get a job being a critic. The short answer is that I have no idea. The very slightly longer one is that you need to think like an entre...
Last call for Didion event tonight
Hi, friends. If you have some free time today (Thursday, June 5) around, say, 8pm EST, and you’re interested in Joan Didion, mythologies, history, or me, you might want to join me for this masterclass I am teaching on the Five Things I’ve L...
I read my audiobook! And wrote about The Rehearsal!
Hello from Paris! I’m off work for the next couple of weeks, mostly thinking about future book projects. In fact, I just got back from a whirlwind trip to Amsterdam for research, which I am hoping will be fruitful.
But I have two things o...
What to Bring to Cannes (or anywhere)
I have been at the Cannes Film Festival for about a week, and am heading back to Paris for a bit today. This was my seventh Cannes so I guess I’m a bit of a vet by now, which is helpful at a festival that can be a little Byzantine and weird...
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I’m a movie critic at the New York Times. I also wrote "We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine" (Liveright, 2025) and "Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women" (Broadleaf, 2022).
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