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

Speculative Fictions: Finance, Excess, and HBO's Industry

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen

Television

<h4>Phillip Maciak (@pjmaciak) is the TV editor of the <em>Los Angeles Review of Books. </em>He is also the author of a book about religion and early cinema called <em>The Disappearing Christ: Secularism in the Silent Era </em>(forthcoming from Columbia University Press), and his film, television, and literary criticism has appeared in <em>Slate</em>, <em>Film Quarterly</em>, <em>J19</em>, <em>PMLA</em>, <em>The New Republic</em>, and other venues. He is also the co-founder—with Jane Hu, Evan Kindley, and Lili Loofbourow—of the “Dear Television” column. He teaches in the English Department and the American Culture Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis.</h4>

Phillip Maciak

<h4>Sarah Mesle (PhD, Northwestern) is faculty at USC and Senior Humanities Editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books. Prior to arriving at USC, she held post-doctoral fellowships in English at the University of Michigan and the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a nineteenth-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">Avidly.org</a>. You can <a href="https://twitter.com/sunsetandecho">follow her on Twitter</a>.</h4>

Sarah Mesle

<strong>Jane Hu is an English PhD candidate at UC Berkeley with an emphasis in Film and Media Studies. She has published in <em>Textual Practice</em>, <em>The New Yorker</em>, the <em>New Republic</em>, <em>Slate</em>, and <em>The Awl</em>.</strong>

Jane Hu

Dear Television vs The Psychometric Personality Quiz

Aaron Bady, Jane Hu, Evan Kindley, Lili Loofbourow, Phillip Maciak, Sarah Mesle, &amp; others