jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 18/09/2025crazy how america is adopting the worst measures of what we always decry in countries like china (censorship, attacks on political freedom), with literally none of the good things (public safety, no gun violence, renewable energy, mass poverty reduction efforts). flop era is real 181
Reposted by jenny g. zhangDel Winters @del.winters.rodeo · 21/08/2025“Surprise: Chinese people aren’t a monolith, and they aren’t all driven by a red-tinted bloodlust for national dominance.” great piece @jennygzhang.bsky.social 0102
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 22/08/2025the chinese blockbuster ne zha 2, the english dub of which opens in theaters today, is an interesting case study in how western media still regards anything chinese with suspicion. wrote about this phenomenon, and the movie itself, for @slate.com slate.com/culture/2025...slate.comA24’s Latest Has Already Made More Money Than Any Star Wars Movie. I Bet You’ve Never Heard Of It.It isn’t even here yet, and it’s already misunderstood. 413932
Reposted by jenny g. zhangLouise Matsakis @lmatsakis.bsky.social · 21/08/2025one of the best film reviews I've read in a while, I miss when more places published work like this. “It may shock some Americans to learn that many Chinese people, on many days, don’t even have the thought of America cross their minds,” @jennygzhang.bsky.social writes slate.com/culture/2025...slate.comA24’s Latest Has Already Made More Money Than Any Star Wars Movie. I Bet You’ve Never Heard Of It.It isn’t even here yet, and it’s already misunderstood. 5779
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 07/08/2025has your big brain ever considered the possibility that a publication worsening in quality is the direct result of shitty owners cutting that publication's resources in half and decimating headcount, freelancer budgets, and all the myriad things that go into creating something "reliably good" 150
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 29/07/2025sort of at peace knowing that my sydney sweeney piece has ticked off both libs declaring that a denim brand is a nazi and small business owners named dale who insist i'm jealous of sydney and racist toward white people. that's how you know you've hit the perfect equilibrium 150
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 29/07/2025wrote about the sydney sweeney inflection point and how celebrity can cheapen and tarnish slate.com/life/2025/07...slate.comSydney Sweeney Has Caused an Uproar. It Was Always Going to Come to This.It was inevitable. 172
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 14/07/2025wrote about really ruined love island usa this year: the specter of "america," which haunted nearly every decision and dynamic inside that villa slate.com/culture/2025... 020
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 08/07/2025the state of reality TV and fervent fandom slate.com/culture/2025... 040
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 07/07/2025wrote about the biggest news cycle of this day and age... love island usa and the sheer ugly wreckage of what is happening with reality tv and the internet slate.com/culture/2025...slate.comThe Controversy Over This Summer’s Hottest Show Just Keeps Getting UglierA reality show kicked off a contestant over a racial slur. What’s happened since hasn’t been pretty. 130
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 01/07/2025getting a million writer pitches now that are all basically "i asked AI to ___." i'm telling you this for your own good: ENOUGH 170
Reposted by jenny g. zhangVan Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Our grand Andor mini-series is finally complete! Shoutout to @jennygzhang.bsky.social, @pauladlerstein.bsky.social, @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social, @davidklion.bsky.social, and Matt Duss for helping us explore every political nook and cranny of the Andor universe www.bangbangpod.com/p/the-comple...bangbangpod.comThe Complete Andor Mini-SeriesOur grand Andor mini-series is finally complete! 1156
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 30/06/2025reason no. 983 to abolish comedians: this email blast promoting a podcast and standup show from some guy who indiscriminately added every single person whose contact info wasn't properly bcc'd on a writers guild event notification 000
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 30/05/2025someone should invent a way for it to be vacation every day 010
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 30/05/2025what it's like on the factory line, by Franklin Schneider, genuinely (probably) one of the best writers to ever do it slate.com/life/2025/05...slate.comTrump Is Selling One Job as America’s Future. I Did It—and It’s Absolutely Miserable.Bringing back the punishing factory floor to make America great again is like giving yourself severe acne to recapture your youth. 184
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 13/05/2025speaking of diaspora lit, reviewed a book about fruit / asian identity for @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...washingtonpost.comReview | This book strips away the orange peel to ask what fruit meansIn “Foreign Fruit,” Katie Goh looks into the history and personal significance of oranges. 070
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 07/05/2025excited to be one of the few remaining humans with a functioning brain and critical thinking skills in 20 years nymag.com/intelligence...nymag.comEveryone Is Cheating Their Way Through CollegeChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project. 041
Reposted by jenny g. zhangPatrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 01/05/2025Wow sounds awesome! Definitely gotta check that out, especially since they are apparently firing everybody who made Polygon good www.theverge.com/news/659575/... 913519
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 30/04/2025went on bang-bang pod to talk about andor (again!) 020
Reposted by jenny g. zhangJeremy Gordon @jeremygordon.bsky.social · 21/04/2025I had a long chat with Jenny about SEE FRIENDSHIP and the process of writing it while working in journalism — sorry to quote myself but here's a bit I will emphasize over and over: 092
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 21/04/2025should i write a book? should you? should anyone? i asked Real Novelist @jeremygordon.bsky.social, who said that, realistically, the world doesn’t need any more novels, but there are still reasons to do so if you so choose jennygzhang.substack.com/p/should-i-w...jennygzhang.substack.comShould I write a book? Should you?A candid interview with author Jeremy Gordon about what writing a novel did to and for him. 172
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 15/04/2025recalling the time i was trying to publish a book excerpt from an author, and their literary agency was proving difficult to work with, so i gave up and said let's cut our losses, sorry we couldn't make it happen this time, and the agent replied berating/threatening me and cc'd my company's CEO 150
Reposted by jenny g. zhangHenry Grabar @henrygrabar.bsky.social · 31/03/2025"There’s a ghost casting a pall from beginning to end: the death of American magazines as a source of power, taste, and money." 021
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 31/03/2025in a banner week for "jenny doing stuff in the public eye" i reviewed graydon carter's new memoir, which is ultimately an elegy in want of an examination slate.com/culture/2025... @slate.comslate.comThanks, Wealthy Magazine Editors, for Telling Us How Good You Once Had ItBottomless budgets. Important journalism. In-office brow care. Graydon Carter wants to make sure you know how great magazines used to be. 0142
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 28/03/2025wrote about how hayao miyazaki would hate you fucking losers slate.com/life/2025/03...slate.comHayao Miyazaki Would Hate You LosersThe famed animator is the last person who would approve of your little Ghibli-fied waste of pixels. 134876
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 28/03/2025if you find my email address—from, say, a pitch guide meant to make it accessible for writers to pitch me stories—and use it to sign me up for your substack, rest assured i am unsubscribing, marking as spam, and setting up a filter so that any email you send goes straight to trash forevermore 061
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 27/03/2025someone please do this but for costco's double chocolate muffins 120
Reposted by jenny g. zhangSam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 21/03/2025in which @jennygzhang.bsky.social goes deep on Severance and makes an argument for going veganslate.comThe Moral Paradox at the Heart of Severance Is Strange, Tense, and UncomfortableIs it unethical for the innies to exist? Or is it unethical for them not to? 0112
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 21/03/2025wrote about severance, factory farming parallels, and PHILOSOPHY!!! slate.com/culture/2025...slate.comThe Moral Paradox at the Heart of Severance Is Strange, Tense, and UncomfortableIs it unethical for the innies to exist? Or is it unethical for them not to? 021
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 20/03/2025new way to check if you're a "somebody" writer or not just dropped 030
Reposted by jenny g. zhangRyan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 19/03/2025At some point in the last decade, Article World, the universe of corporate journalism and punditry that used to hold up American democracy, was defeated by Post World, random internet content our officials see on their feeds. Nothing has worked ever since. www.garbageday.email/p/when-was-t... 38220
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 18/03/2025wrote about the genre of day-in-my-life videos, the growing aesthetic and spiritual appreciation for the quotidian 9-to-5, and the tightrope of performing relatability for an audience jennygzhang.substack.com/p/9-to-5-pre...jennygzhang.substack.comThe 9-to-5 pretendersa.k.a. social media's relatability trap. 0354
Reposted by jenny g. zhangNitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 11/03/2025yesterday was a tough day for us. please send all love, support, and job opportunities to @methsaxon.bsky.social, @hashtagkatie.bsky.social, and @natalieshut.bsky.social, all of whom deserved so much better than this. 05320
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 27/02/2025for my monthly newsletter, i wrote about the diverging valuations of writing, the creep of an anti-effort sentiment disguised as noble resistance to capitalism, and one weird trick to doing that thing you always said you were going to do jennygzhang.substack.com/p/writers-bl...jennygzhang.substack.comThe truth about writer's blockSince when did discipline and work become evidence of "assembly-line capitalist thinking"? 151
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 20/02/2025should i buy this and become the worst person you know 060
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 18/02/2025when i post the exact same joke on twitter and bluesky, that's not me double-dipping. i'm conducting empirical research 1163
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 17/02/2025some of you may wonder how a human being could genuinely fall in love with an AI chatbot. watch a single episode of Love Is Blind and you will understand completely 080
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 13/02/2025going emo mode listening to death cab for cutie after missing out on tickets for their upcoming tour because 29,000 people were ahead of me in the queue - that's called embracing the millennial experience 030
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 11/02/2025it feels like more and more people are using ratings/streams/box office numbers/etc. as an obvious signifier of artistic merit or shield against exacting critical assessment... not great imo 020
Reposted by jenny g. zhangJaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 05/02/2025"America has a long history of celebrating immigrant food without valuing immigrants themselves. The value of any person should not be reliant on producing things the dominant class deems delicious enough to embrace." www.eater.com/24359357/und...eater.comFor Undocumented Restaurant Workers, Everything Is in QuestionPresident Trump’s threats against undocumented immigrants put America’s entire food chain at risk. 220461
jenny g. zhang @jennygzhang.bsky.social · 31/01/2025pigeons can sense if you're pure of heart. if a pigeon poops on you that's a sign of your moral repugnance 030