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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Sally Rooney: The Chronicler of Institutionalized Self-Consciousness
Sally Rooney (b. 1991) is the most widely read literary novelist of her generation, and among the few serious literary writers who have turned literary fiction into a global mass phenomenon. Her ascent tracked the exhaustion of the post-2008 liberal … Continue reading
Jeffrey Toobin and the Juridification of American Public Life
Jeffrey Toobin (b. 1960) rose during the late twentieth century as an influential interpreter of the American legal system for a mass audience. Across magazine journalism, television commentary, prosecutorial memoir, and narrative non-fiction, he helped turn constitutional law, federal prosecution, … Continue reading
The Rage of the Disinherited Insider: The Angry WASP Writer
The angry WASP writer is a literary type that the decline of the Protestant establishment produced over the past three decades. The form rests on a reversal. The White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite once held the command heights of American institutions … Continue reading
Robert Caro and the Anatomy of Power
Robert Caro (b. 1935) holds a central place in modern American nonfiction. He turned political biography into an instrument for examining the hidden structure of democratic power. Over more than five decades he fused investigative reporting, literary realism, oral history, … Continue reading
Jill Stewart and the Unmaking of Civic Journalism in Los Angeles
Jill Stewart belongs to the generation of American metropolitan journalists formed by the prestige of post-Watergate investigation and reshaped by the commercial collapse of the newspaper that gave them their start. She holds an undergraduate degree from The Evergreen State … Continue reading
Matt Drudge and the Collapse of the Editorial Gatekeeper
Matthew Nathan Drudge (b. 1966) reshaped American journalism at the turn of the twenty-first century. He assembled a hyperlink page and turned speed, selection, and amplification into a power that often surpassed the largest media institutions in the country. He … Continue reading
Harry Knowles and the Birth of Networked Fandom
Harry Knowles (b. 1971) is an American film commentator, internet entrepreneur, and founder of the website Ain’t It Cool News. He stands at the transition from twentieth-century entertainment journalism to digitally networked fan culture. Through his site he showed that … Continue reading
The Permanent Witness: Jeffrey Wells and the Transformation of Film Criticism
The Jeffrey Wells career runs across the collapse of the metropolitan print order, the rise of independent internet publishing, the conversion of film criticism into continuous online commentary, and the arrival of personality-driven media economies that dissolved the old boundaries … Continue reading
David Poland and the Reinvention of Entertainment Journalism
David Poland (b. 1964) is a transitional figure in American entertainment journalism. He occupies the unsettled ground between the declining authority of the twentieth-century trade press and the rise of decentralized digital commentary. Across more than three decades he moved … Continue reading
Beneath the Spectacle: David Rensin and the Oral History of Hollywood Labor
Coming up through the magazine culture of the 1970s and 1980s, David Rensin (b. 1950) became a principal architect of the celebrity oral history and the ghostwritten memoir during the years when Hollywood, television, magazines, and commercial publishing fused into … Continue reading