New Yorker staff writer. Books: "I Like To Watch" & “Cue The Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV." I’m not here— Find me at Bluesky/Insta: emilynussbaum
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Gonna maintain this cursed account for voyeuristic purposes but will no longer post here— I should have ditched a long time ago, but have never been known for my self-control... You can find me on Bluesky (which seems to be popping!), Threads and Instagram, under the same name
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This piece is extraordinary - so well reported and sensitively written, so illuminating, just an incredible, must-read for our MAHA times
A father wanted to vaccinate his children. Their mother didn’t. Then the kids got sick.
The Scare newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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i listened to the “dolly parton’s america” podcast the summer after my first miscarriage when i was taking long walks to clear my head and grieve. it was such a comforting listen. this my first time seeing this quote and it just made me sob. i love this perspective
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Who wants to live in New York? Who wants the worry, the noise, the dirt, the heat? Who wants the garbage cans clanging in the street? Suddenly I do!
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Boots Riley’s zany movies combine pop aesthetics with radical politics. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
My profile of the delightful Keri Russell, the darkly funny, surprisingly introverted former New Mickey Mouse Club member who—even after Felicity, The Americans and The Diplomat!—has never fully embraced the idea of herself as an actress: newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…
I had a blast pulling an all-nighter with Jesse Eisenberg and Meredith Scardino while they magically speed-wrote a musical: newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…
My essay about the brilliant, pioneering & shockingly forgotten showrunner-pioneer Gertrude Berg, who invented the family sitcom (pre-Lucy!), then got eaten by the blacklist in the 1950s — a story with disturbing modern parallels
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In 1951, Gertrude Berg, the creator behind “The Goldbergs,” won an Emmy and was poised to become one of TV’s greatest luminaries. Instead, just three years later, her life’s work was in peril. What happened? nyer.cm/1MM6ILV
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.@emilynussbaum remembers Gertrude Berg, the first “showrunner” of any gender and a life-style influencer 50 years before Oprah or Martha Stewart, whose progressive sitcom became a victim of the McCarthy era. nyer.cm/gLFeTXG
“Last Wednesday, as I watched Grok bring up white genocide in response to an anodyne query about the Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Max Scherzer’s career earnings, I couldn’t shake the question: Why are people still using this website?” theatlantic.com/technology/a…
I read Threads, too; I like Insta; I read Reddit. Clive loves Mastodon. I genuinely enjoy social media, but life got better when I wasn’t hanging out in a creepy sewer run by a malevolent dork. Just posting this bc in case you’re thinking of leaving, you can, there are options
Warning: this Mari Heller profile contains two (2) bad dreams, a sky that turns orange, methods for directing cute toddlers, Amy Adams, Maria Bamford, a Weird Al deep cut, marital strife related to SNL & a Sharon Olds poem containing the word colostrum
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.@emilynussbaum profiles the director Marielle Heller ahead of the release of her new film, “Nightbitch,” a darkly funny fable about how motherhood changes women by forcing them to tap into a feral physicality. nyer.cm/3taXBHY
My profile of the sharp, insightful director Marielle Heller (Diary of a Teenage Girl, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood), whose newest movie Nightbitch comes out in December: newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…
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“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” - Hannah Arendt in “The Origins of Totalitarianism”
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The 2025 #ALA_Carnegie Medals for Excellence shortlist has been revealed, including works by Percival Everett, Kaveh Akbar, Jailing Tang, @HigginbothamA, @emilynussbaum, and @KevinFedarko. The winners will be announced on Jan. 26, 2025. @ALALibrary ow.ly/XUoY50U6jI4
