“Five Details They Cut from My Season of ‘The Biggest Loser’”: Cracked
well worth reading even if you have no especial interest in weight loss or shows about ditto:…Every week on the show, you watched us exercising and working out. That’s part of the process, of course —...
View ArticleI Review Christopher Beha’s New Novel of Reality-TV Redemption
for AmCon:Christopher Beha’s Arts & Entertainments is built around a classic morality-tale structure: the devil’s bargain, the spiraling consequences, the choice between a good reputation and a...
View ArticleFrom “Infinite Jest”
The ‘base [freebase cocaine] frees and condenses, compresses the whole experience to the implosion of one terrible shattering spike in the graph, an afflated orgasm of the heart that makes her feel,...
View ArticleCommonweal’s Take on My Novel, “Amends”
is very generous:Now Tushnet has published her first novel, Amends, which is about a group of young alcoholics participating in a reality-TV series about rehab. Apart from their addiction, the six...
View Article“Too Much Reality”: Martyn Wendell Jones reviews my novel
at the University Bookman:Eve Tushnet’s self-published debut novel Amends is at full gallop out of the gate:J. Malachi MacCool was born in Berkeley, California, in the last decade of the Cold War, to...
View Article“A Paleocon, An Otherkin, And a Saint Walk into a Bar”: Kate Havard
reviews my novel–and gets off some great lines of her own in the process:Eve Tushnet’s wonderful debut novel Amends takes place during the first and only season of a doomed reality television show...
View Article“Amends” reviewed by Rachel Manija Brown
author of All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: …The prose and dialogue of Amends is a real pleasure, biting and clever and snappy, quotable and re-readable. At times it’s almost too polished. One of the...
View ArticleDouble Exposure: Notes on “Weiner”
This is a documentary about Anthony Weiner’s 2013 campaign for mayor of New York City. At the start of the film–whose makers included a former aide–Weiner has already resigned in disgrace from Congress...
View ArticleHelen Andrews on the Private Meanings of Public Shaming
at First Things: Moving to the other side of the world did not diminish the video’s place in my life as much as I thought it would. It was still the first result when you Googled my name, which...
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