Avidly Reads Screen Time

<strong>Jorge Cotte is a writer living in Chicago. His work has appeared in <i>The New Inquiry</i>, <i>Complex</i>, and <i>Remezcla</i>. When not writing, he is cooking, binging, and <a href="https://twitter.com/FranziaFanon" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable">tweeting.</a></strong>

Jorge Cotte

<strong>Aaron Bady is a writer in Oakland.</strong>

Aaron Bady

<h4>Lili Loofbourow is a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley working on Milton and 17th-century theories of eating and reading. She tweets at <a href="https://twitter.com/Millicentsomer">@millicentsomer</a>, blogs at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em><a href="http://www.excrementalvirtue.com/">Excremental Virtue</a></em>, and writes TV criticism over at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em><a href="http://www.deartelevision.wordpress.com/">Dear Television</a></em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>along with Jane Hu, Phillip Maciak, and Evan Kindley. You can sometimes find her at <em>The Awl</em>, <em>The Hairpin</em>, and <em>The New Inquiry</em>.</h4>

Lili Loofbourow

<strong>Jane Hu is a critic who lives in Los Angeles.</strong>

Jane Hu

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<h4>Phillip Maciak (@pjmaciak) is the TV editor of the <em>Los Angeles Review of Books.&nbsp;</em>His essays have appeared in&nbsp;<em>Slate</em>,&nbsp;<em>The New Republic</em>, and other venues, and he's co-founder of the Dear Television column. He's the author of&nbsp;<em>The Disappearing Christ: Secularism in the Silent Era&nbsp;</em>(Columbia University Press, 2019) and&nbsp;<em>Avidly Reads Screen Time&nbsp;</em>(New York University Press, 2023). He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.</h4>

Phillip Maciak

<h4>Sarah Mesle (PhD, Northwestern) is faculty at USC and Senior Humanities Editor at the <em>Los Angeles Review of Books</em>. Prior to arriving at USC, she held postdoctoral fellowships in English at the University of Michigan and the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a 19th-century Americanist by training and is interested, generally speaking, in the long history of the American popular novel and in the many ways pop culture can excite, estrange, and surprise.</h4>
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<h4>With Sarah Blackwood, she is co-editor of <a href="http://avidly.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Avidly.org</a>. You can <a href="https://twitter.com/sunsetandecho">follow her on Twitter</a>.</h4>

Sarah Mesle

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Jorge Cotte is a writer living in Chicago. His work has appeared in <i>The New Inquiry</i>, <i>Complex</i>, and <i>Remezcla</i>. When not writing, he is cooking, binging, and <a href="https://twitter.com/FranziaFanon" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable">tweeting.</a>

Jorge Cotte

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