Brittany Menjivar

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.

Articles

Peter Pantages
Brittany Menjivar can fly: straight from La La Land to Never Land, for the revamped “Peter Pan” production at the Pantages.
Brittany MenjivarJul 24
A New Genus of Genius
Someone give Brittany Menjivar a MacArthur Fellowship for her work reviewing Tarek Ziad’s one-man show in Los Angeles!
Brittany MenjivarJul 17
I Had the Time of My Afterlife
Brittany Menjivar attends Boardner’s goth club in Hollywood and finds that she’s in parties. It’s in the can!
Brittany MenjivarJul 4
Nothing Is Trivial
Brittany Menjivar lunges for the buzzer at Wednesday Night Trivia in Los Feliz’s Bigfoot Lodge.
Brittany MenjivarJun 27
One for the Road
Honk if you love Brittany Menjivar taking the scenic route at Petersen Automotive Museum’s “Eyes on the Road” exhibit.
Brittany MenjivarJun 3
A Fair’s in Order
Brittany Menjivar catches a Rave Wave and accepts Grogu’s invite to an exhibition of nerds at the L.A. County Fair.
Brittany MenjivarMay 26
Hot Moms in Your Area
Fiction moms have got it going on, Brittany Menjivar discovers at Kimberly King Parsons’s Skylight Books reading.
Brittany MenjivarMay 22
All’s Fair at the Ren Faire
Brittany Menjivar forgoes turkey legs and opts instead for a taste of pulled pork and momento mori at the Renaissance Faire.
Brittany MenjivarMay 2

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