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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

First in my bloodline to watch an old Hinge date’s wedding via Instagram Stories

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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Just finished this incredible and singular bio of arguably the most important “Invisible Woman” in the arts, Elaine May. @carriecourogen.bsky.social captured an entire human and artistic life. Rough edges, heartbreak, warmth, reality. An orienteering guide for making art and moving through life.

Cover of Miss May Does Not Exist by Carrie Courogen

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

imagine hating me and i'm just alone in my apartment hitting a pen and listening to my "vada sultenfuss summer" playlist

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lindsey romain @lindseyromain.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

it is very intimidating writing about one of the greatest american movies of all time about one of the most consequential pieces of journalism of all time but alas i had fun!

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

this essay is incredible...the kind of essay that makes you want to be a better writer, and makes you think it might be worth it and even possible to keep trying

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Ticklish Business Podcast @ticklishbiz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The first episode of our Elaine in May series is out! We're joined by @carriecourogen.bsky.social, author of Miss May Does Not Exist! Check it out everywhere you get your podcasts! #elainemay #oldhollywood #womeninfilm #film

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Kristen Lopez @kristenklopez.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The two episodes we did on Elaine May are some of the best I’ve recorded. Nerding out with @carriecourogen.bsky.social was so great!

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I realize she's fallen out of favor because she hasn't dropped an album since the Obama administration and doesn't produce documentaries about herself. But Joanna Newsom is the best American songwriter of her generation.

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

elaine may 94th bday........ur all actually legally required to buy my book today. most people don't know this but it's true bit.ly/missmaymacmi...

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Happy Elaine May Day to all who celebrate. I wrote for @brightwalldarkroom.com about MIKEY & NICKY, the ubertext in her lifelong cinematic study of broken men and their slugtrail of betrayals, and a scab-torn, pus-flooded journey to the end of the night for two best friends.

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A Tunnel in My Head - Mikey and Nicky (1976) | Bright Wall/Dark Room

Mikey and Nicky is not the story of two men attempting to escape the mob, nor two men reckoning with themselves—it's the story of two boys wholly unequipped to mediate the complex emotions and respons...

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 21/04/2026

Quick quick reminder that if you haven't read @carriecourogen.bsky.social's MISS MAY DOES NOT EXIST you've missed one of the best showbiz biographies that there is

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

incredible totally normal playlist i started compiling at the top of this year bit.ly/4bwRDag

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Tom Ceraulo @tceraulo.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Excellent piece about an artist that way more people should know about.

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I wrote about the incredibly fucking cool and utterly peerless Mary Margaret O'Hara, whose music seems to have taken up permanent residence in my brain this spring as a balm for unbearably bleak times.

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agrestic subconscious soul singer: the off-beat beauty of mary margaret o'hara

The Canadian singer-songwriter made one captivating album, 1988's Miss America, then, as legend goes, vanished. But she's always been there for those who look.

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Munkle @unklemunkle.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

This is an excellent piece. I hope that the lost songs from the Miss America sessions will see the light of day at some point.

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

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agrestic subconscious soul singer: the off-beat beauty of mary margaret o'hara

The Canadian singer-songwriter made one captivating album, 1988's Miss America, then, as legend goes, vanished. But she's always been there for those who look.

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

thinking about the man old enough to be my father who last night at a party asked me what my beat is as a journalist and how i looked him dead in the eyes and said “well my friends like to say i’m on the boomer beat”

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 02/04/2026

IT’S REAL

The cover of a book: Becoming Alien, second edition, with the subtitle “The Beginning and End of Evil in Science Fiction’s Most Idiosyncratic Film Franchise,” with a foreword by Matt Zoller Seitz. There are two dippy birds drinking out of the same cup on the cover.

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

ai could simply never do what i do (spend entire days gleefully falling down newspapers dot com rabbit holes)

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

opening day you know what that means (time to rewatch the 1982 SCTV cast and writers vs. SCTV crew softball game)

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

you give a ticketing monopoly one little doj settlement one time and—

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

as if the past decade of suffering has not been trying enough we still don't have a new joanna newsom album

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Phillip Iscove @pmiscove.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

This week on @podcastlikeits The 2000s @emilystjams.bsky.social and I continue our Christopher Guest miniseries by talking A Mighty Wind with @carriecourogen.bsky.social! We discuss music documentaries, Nicks & Buckingham, cults and of course the always wonderful Catherine O’Hara.

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Clapping my hands like a seal the entire time I read this!!!! Glorious, unhinged, and surprisingly insightful about something supposedly stupid; a made in the lab for me essay!!!

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I want to make it clearly known that I am not affiliated with this play in any manner, much as this implies my association. My publisher and agents are aware of this ongoing situation. The rights to Miss May Does Not Exist are already spoken for and in ethical, talented hands.

Screenshot of a play breakdown for Miss May Does Not Exist by Beth Kander for the 2026 Contemporary American Theater Festival

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

i wrote about catherine o'hara: a hero who did delusion like no other.

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goodbye to a great actress 😎

On Catherine O'Hara

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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 04/01/2026

"We can’t wait for someone to approve of the stories we wish to tell, can’t allow a suit to tell us there’s no market for it. We have to take matters into our own hands, have to do the hard and unglamorous work, have to grin and bear it and just fucking do it." - @carriecourogen.bsky.social

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A Woman Under the Influence (1974): Tomorrow's Gonna Be Better

A Woman Under the Influence endures as a statement on womanhood not because it is a film-as-time-capsule—a relic of the women’s lib era—but because it’s just as relevant now as ever.

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

This is about A Woman Under the Influence but it is also a lot about saying fuck corporations, be uncomfortable, make independent art—even if it doesn’t pay off in your lifetime

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

"Reiner may not have been showy, but that’s the other thing about genius: he didn’t have to be." @carriecourogen.bsky.social on the work of Rob Reiner, who made work you "want to crawl inside and live in." lareviewofbooks.org/article/he-unde…

a shot of Rob Reiner in This is Spinal Tap

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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 05/12/2025

"It’s always winter in REDS, and someone is always thinking about the future. It’s always winter, and someone is always fighting, someone is always hoping, someone is always gritting their teeth and doing the work." - @carriecourogen.bsky.social

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It's Always Winter in 'Reds' (1981)

It’s always winter in Reds, and someone is always fighting, someone is always hoping, someone is always gritting their teeth and doing the work.

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

not seeing nearly enough commentary about what the fuck olivia nuzzi did to her eyebrows

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Nat Missildine @natmissildine.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I was able to be a part of this latest issue at @bwdr.bsky.social and sit still with the unfinished journey of this film. Thanks to @carriecourogen.bsky.social and @eccantwell.bsky.social for helping the words along. I could be moved… www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/11/24/w...

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Io Capitano (2023): We Passengers

Matteo Garrone’s Io Capitano surpasses documentary or reportage or neorealist cinema into something like a modern-day legend.

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

it never occurred to me that the secret to becoming a wildly successful writer was to be a terrible writer

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

miss may does not exist is out in paperback out today if u even care bookshop.org/p/books/miss...

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Phillip Iscove @pmiscove.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

This week on @podcastlikeits The 1990s Patreon I started a brand new miniseries on Mike Nichols 90s films by talking Postcards From The Edge with @carriecourogen.bsky.social! We talk Meryl, Mike, Carrie (Fisher), Gene and of course Debbie! Great movie! Great episode!

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Andrew Cuomo: I pay $7800 in rent Andrew Cuomo's actual rent: $8242

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

i'm in new york straight up "globalizing it"............ and by "it" haha. well,,,,,,,......,,,let's just say "the intifada"

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I’m visiting my mom and it’s 10:30pm here which means the only way available to me to watch Reds is on my phone which I guess means I’m gonna watch Reds on my phone at 10:30pm, now

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