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

I Would Do Anything for Indie Pop
All the other kids with the pumped-up kicks can’t outrun Brittany Menjivar’s excitement at the Foster the People show in West Hollywood.
Brittany MenjivarAug 20, 2024
Revenge of the Horror Comic
Ready, boils and ghouls, for a jolting tale of tension in the EC tradition? Read the Britt-Keeper’s account of a spooky little soirée at Revenge Of in Glassell Park … if you dare!
Brittany MenjivarAug 3, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
Nothing Is Trivial
Brittany Menjivar lunges for the buzzer at Wednesday Night Trivia in Los Feliz’s Bigfoot Lodge.
Brittany MenjivarJun 27, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
Sweet Emptiness: On Nicolette Polek’s “Bitter Water Opera”
Brittany Menjivar reviews Nicolette Polek’s “Bitter Water Opera.”
Brittany MenjivarApr 19, 2024
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Modern Blur Is Not Rubbish
Woo-hoo! Brittany Menjivar gets her head checked by a jumbo jet at Blur’s pre-Coachella warm-up show in Pomona.
Brittany MenjivarApr 17, 2024
Are You Receiving Her Psychic Messages?
Brittany Menjivar will not rest until the whole world has fallen in love with Kenzy Peach.
Brittany MenjivarApr 13, 2024
This Is Me on Top of You
Britt Menjivar attends a “hardcore” screening of Mara Mckevitt’s “Val” and Miranda July’s “The Amateurist” in Chinatown.
Brittany MenjivarMar 15, 2024
For the Love of Books
Brittany Menjivar went to the antiquarian book conference and found a fuzzy belly, murderous frog, and rec center chairman.
Brittany MenjivarFeb 9, 2024
Appreciating Appreciation
Come for the Gen-X indie film legend, stay for the 245-piece disposable Jack Sparrow tableware set.
Brittany MenjivarFeb 1, 2024