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Julia Lloyd George

@jlloydgeorge.bsky.social
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writer for hire. Bylines in the LA Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, and Inverse. recovering Hollywood assistant. www.julia-lloyd-george.com

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Julia Lloyd George @jlloydgeorge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It was such a pleasant surprise to read this collection of short stories by a writer I had never heard of before, Ben Pester, and realize how talented he was. If you're looking for a fresh voice, I recommend checking out "Sail Away Land." www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
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Floating above a flat world
Stories of apathy, dissociation and the numbing pull of television
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If you haven’t read the dedication of Gloria Steinem’s autobiography My Life on the Road, it is really worth taking a second today.
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Julia Lloyd George @jlloydgeorge.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I read Julio Cortázar for the first time in one of my MFA classes last fall, so it was an exciting challenge to review his newly reissued novel, "A Certain Lucas", for @thetls.bsky.social: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
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Destroying literature
Describing A Certain Lucas as a novel is characteristic of the rebelliousness that made Julio Cortázar such a singular writer. It would be more accurate
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Julia Lloyd George @jlloydgeorge.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I'm extremely (fashionably?) late to the zeitgeist, but I reviewed Madeline Cash's novel, "Lost Lambs", for @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
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Competing crises
It’s rare to see an author having as much fun as Madeline Cash seems to have had writing her zany debut novel, Lost Lambs. It’s difficult to resist the
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Julia Lloyd George @jlloydgeorge.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
It’s been two years of Florida’s near-total abortion ban. Please donate to abortion funds like @flaccessnetwork.bsky.social if you can.
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Julia Lloyd George @jlloydgeorge.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Interviewed Hallie Cantor about her hilarious new novel about the TV industry, "Like This, But Funnier." julialloydgeorge.substack.com/p/an-intervi...
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An Interview with Hallie Cantor
Comedy Writer and Novelist!
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Julia Lloyd George @jlloydgeorge.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
My first article for @inverse.com was on the 10th anniversary of "Midnight Special," an unusually quiet and thoughtful sci-fi film that I'd failed to truly appreciate until this rewatch. www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
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10 Years Later, One Underrated Sci-Fi Movie Shines A Light on The Genre’s Corny Flaw
Kid discovers supernatural forces; government finds kid; chase ensues. It used to be so simple — until 'Midnight Special' came along.
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Julia Lloyd George @jlloydgeorge.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Thinking of Virginia Giuffre today
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Julia Lloyd George @jlloydgeorge.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
writing book reviews often feels like playing the violin on the Titanic these days, but Becca Rothfeld has written about it so beautifully that I dare say my spirits are buoyed: www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
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The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post
Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, on the death of the paper’s books section.
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Julia Lloyd George @jlloydgeorge.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
This is a very cool history, but it’s also sad to think of how this “coaching tree” model is essentially dead in the current age of TV
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
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Rebecca Kelliher @rebeccakelliher.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Thank you to the fabulous @jlloydgeorge.bsky.social and @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social for this Q&A on my new book, JUST PILLS, chronicling the extraordinary history of abortion pills—and of feminist networks putting these pills into women's hands despite the odds! lareviewofbooks.org/article/pill...
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Pills Have Legs | Los Angeles Review of Books
Julia Lloyd George interviews Rebecca Kelliher about her new book “Just Pills: The Extraordinary Story of a Revolution in Abortion Care.”
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 29/09/2025
"The review of mifepristone marks the second time in less than a week that the Trump administration has marshaled false medical claims and junk science in an effort to constrain the freedoms of pregnant women and curtail their access to relief," writes Guardian US columnist Moira Donegan.
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The abortion pill is safe. But why should Trump let facts get in the way of his agenda? | Moira Donegan
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
It’s going to break your heart how many people you know, love, and respect will turn out to be cowards. Prepare yourself as best you can. You are not alone, but you are your own center. Be a strong center.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
it’s pretty nuts that 9 months into trump 2.0 we need a whisper network just to get a fucking covid vaccine
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Julia Lloyd George @jlloydgeorge.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
I wrote about Laila Lalami's "The Dream Hotel", a dystopian novel I still think about every time I have to sign a service agreement, for @thetls.bsky.social
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More than a set of data points
If you squint, the dystopian future of Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel looks a lot like our present reality. The rules of this meticulously drawn world are
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Julia Lloyd George @jlloydgeorge.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Loved this @nplusonemag.com essay on the TV novel and the “uneasy, mutually needy relationship between writing (or reading) fiction and making (or watching) television” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/rev...
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New TV Novels | Lisa Borst
It’s a literature of dimming stars, smoggy drives through flammable chaparral, frequent benders, prostitutes. Flash periods of productivity where somebody bangs out a script in a week. There’s at leas...
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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
“A review is whatever a work of art brings to mind; everything is criticism.” I’ve read a lot of “defenses” of criticism from the past decade or so, and this Brody essay is the best by a country mile. What a knock-out. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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In Defense of the Traditional Review
Far from being a journalistic relic, as suggested by recent developments at the New York Times, arts criticism is inherently progressive, keeping art honest and pointing toward its future.
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Julia Lloyd George @jlloydgeorge.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Reviewed a director's memoir for the first time. 'Twas a challenge! Though I'll never complain about watching films as "homework." www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
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Propagating chaos | TLS
The most impressive fact about the Spanish film-maker Albert Serra’s fragmented memoir, A Toast to St Martirià, is that its central essay came from a speech that was “entirely improvised”, according t...
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Julia Lloyd George @jlloydgeorge.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I had so much fun reading and re-reading Christopher Bollen's "Havoc", a thriller set in an Egyptian hotel during lockdown, for @thetls.bsky.social. If you're sad about "The White Lotus" ending this Sunday, this might be for you!
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Havoc by Christopher Bollen | Book review | The TLS
The chaos agents who drive Christopher Bollen’s latest thriller belong to two of the most easily overlooked demographics: an old woman and a child. The
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
A reminder that fiction — books, film, games, what have you — is always political. The willful absence of “politics” in any work is itself a political choice and a political act. Who gets to tell (and sell) stories is political. It might be an undercurrent — covert, not overt. But it’s there.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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Julia Lloyd George @jlloydgeorge.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Thinking about the time some guy was trying to convince me that RFK Jr was “carrying the torch for the Kennedys”
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Julia Lloyd George @jlloydgeorge.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Wrote my first book review for @thetls.bsky.social! Feeling very thankful www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
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Lazarus Man by Richard Price | Book review | The TLS
Resurrection stories typically aren’t a hard sell; readers are seduced by the promise of miracles and by the possibility that they too can rise again to
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