Brittany Menjivar was born in the DMV; she now works and plays in the City of Angels. She serves as a Short Takes columnist for the Los Angeles Review of Books; her journalism and cultural criticism can also be found in Coveteur, Document Journal, and V Magazine, among other outlets. She is the author of the poetry and prose collection Parasocialite (2024) and the co-founder of literary reading series Car Crash Collective. As a screenwriter (Fragile.com), she has been recognized as an AT&T Hello Lab Filmmaking Fellow.
Brittany Menjivar
Articles
Working Out the Kinks
Brittany Menjivar interviews Brittany Newell about style, symbolism, and representations of sex work in her second novel, “Soft Core.”
Sleep No More, No More
In a special dispatch from NYC, Brittany Menjivar is but a walking shadow in the background of immersive “Macbeth” production “Sleep No More.”
Going Bananas for Balboa Island
Brittany Menjivar says “snow way!” when she bumps into Frosty, Olaf, and Ronald Reagan in Newport Beach.
I Heart Christmas
All Brittany Menjivar wants this holiday season is to be rockin’ around the Christmas tree at IHEARTCOMIX’s anniversary party.
Nothing Is Certain Except Death and Taxidermy
Brittany Menjivar stuffs herself with trivia on the art of museum dioramas.
Saints and Seekers and Stories
At Bruce Wagner’s Echo Park book launch, he discusses the “Joker” sequel and attention-starved cave-dwelling monks, as Brittany Menjivar reports.
The Play’s the Thing
Brittany Menjivar watches absurd characters blur the lines between “persona” and “actual man” in two new one-act plays in East Hollywood.
Blinded by the Frights
Aspiring It-ghoul Brittany Menjivar gets stabbed by the Grabber and barbed by Chucky at Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights.
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