18 September, 2021

Nia DaCosta, Universal Pictures: Candyman
Listening/Watching
Ottessa Moshfegh: Death in Her Hands
Reading

“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”

–Pema Chödrön

Quote of the Week

I made a radio drama: The Case of the Missing Cards

My first radio drama. It was fun, grueling, experimental.

Thanks to all my helpers and collaborators: couldn’t have done this without you: Cinqué Hicks, Lauren Ludwig, Jarvis Turner, Jackie Trimble, Mauryne Less, M. Aviña, Jen Scott, Ramya Krishnaswamy, Stephone Watson, Amanda Diaz and my four-year-old nephew Ziv Bernstein. The power of art is in community for me.

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24 July, 2021

Jeff Orlowski, Netflix: The Social Dilemma
Listening/Watching
Jesmyn Ward: Salvage the Bones
Reading

“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.”

–Eugene Lonesco

Quote of the Week

10 July, 2021

Radha Blank, Netflix: The Forty-Year-Old Version
Listening/Watching
Naomi Klein: No Is Not Enough
Reading

“If now isn’t a good time for the truth, I don’t see when we’ll get to it.”

–Nikki Giovanni

Quote of the Week

26 June, 2021

Barry Jenkins, Amazon Studios: The Underground Railroad
Listening/Watching
Paula Vogel: The Mammary Plays
Reading

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.”

–Mark Twain

Quote of the Week