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Karl Taro Greenfeld

@karltaro.bsky.social
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Television writer, novelist and bad journalist

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Karl Taro Greenfeld @karltaro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Comic short story in Alta -
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Karl Taro Greenfeld: How to Survive a Crumbling TV Industry
Vanishing showrunners, gaping plot holes, and the small, essential solaces of the craft services breakfast sandwich—a veteran TV writer attempts to survive in this fictionalized tale of a crumbling in...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/07/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Even if the Paramount deal shrinks the industry further, great movies and television shows will continue to be made,” Karl Taro Greenfeld writes. “Though they may not be made in the United States. Or by humans.”
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Opinion | I’m a Screenwriter. Hollywood Is in Trouble.
A scriptwriter’s lament about Hollywood’s decline
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Karl Taro Greenfeld @karltaro.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I wrote this casual for NYT: Downwardly Mobile in Hollywood www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/o...
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Opinion | I’m a Screenwriter. Hollywood Is in Trouble.
A scriptwriter’s lament about Hollywood’s decline
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Karl Taro Greenfeld @karltaro.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
The venerable Roads&Kingdoms is back with a print issue. I contributed an essay about the fire and fleeing America. I think it’s among my strongest essays.
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Roads & Kingdoms, Issue 1
Included with Conspirator and Fellow Traveler memberships Our annual print magazine includes 144 pages of arresting visuals and in-depth storytelling from writers, artists, and photographers around th...
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Karl Taro Greenfeld @karltaro.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Do Not Obey in Advance
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
This is excellent and painfully necessary & says a lot more than its headline suggests - so it’s well worth reading it through. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-believ...
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ICE believes it will never face accountability again
The Trump administration is letting an unaccountable secret police form at the heart of our democracy.
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Karl Taro Greenfeld @karltaro.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Musk must be delighted they are defacing and vandalizing Waymos instead of Teslas
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Karl Taro Greenfeld @karltaro.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
How does the NYT do a story about James Frey w/out mentioning his 20 year career as a TV writer and producer? Presumably that’s how he’s made a living. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/s...
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Oprah Shamed Him. He’s Back Anyway.
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Karl Taro Greenfeld @karltaro.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
It’s a Home Depot, not a Reichstag, but you see where he is going with this.
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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
On Ibiza, by @karltaro.bsky.social for Roads and Kingdoms, from 2015:
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The Island of No Regrets
In the limitless, drug-fuelled summer before the publication of his first book, the young writer Karl Taro Greenfeld buries looming disappointments with Europe’s drifters in Ibiza.
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Karl Taro Greenfeld @karltaro.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I wrote what we used to call a “casual” in The Atlantic
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Why I’m Leaving Pacific Palisades
My family survived the fire. We want to rebuild. But another, greater conflagration has enveloped us.
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