Alana Pockros

Catherine Lacey’s Missed Connections In her most personal work, The Möbius Book, Lacey uses a devastating moment of heartbreak to ruminate on the messy intersections between life and writing.

"Just like a Möbius strip, we might be sliced down our middles, even split in half. But the bind that holds us together will always stay intact," writes @apockros.bsky.social.

In on the Joke | The Point Magazine This past winter, the morning after arriving back in New York from Sundance Film Festival, I sat on my couch, eyes bleary and dry from […]

I wrote about Sorry, Baby, Materialists, and our current climate of sexual politics for @thepointmag.bsky.social!
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In on the Joke | The Point Magazine This past winter, the morning after arriving back in New York from Sundance Film Festival, I sat on my couch, eyes bleary and dry from […]

New on Forms of Life, @apockros.bsky.social on what “Sorry, Baby” understands about our current climate of sexual politics that “Materialists” doesn’t:

Illness Took My Mother’s Independence, but It Gave Us Something Precious

Bared my soul in the @nytimes.com magazine. It’s about looking at art, my mother, and what happens when you practice the difficult task of patience.

Texts from anxiety and depression and the houthi pc small group

Almodóvar’s Women | The Point Magazine If you are a leading woman in a Pedro Almodóvar film, your life will not be frictionless.

REVIEW @apockros.bsky.social “The first thing one will notice in Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film, ‘The Room Next Door’ (2024) …is that it both preserves this formula and subverts it in crucial ways.” #cinema thepointmag.com/criticism/al...

Photo of Jessie Hoffman at Angola prison in Louisiana

This is Jessie Hoffman. Louisiana plans to execute him tomorrow using nitrogen hypoxia, a profoundly experimental method that has only been used 4x in the US (or anywhere). In plainer language, this means the state will gas him to death.

Jfc this makes me sick

Wrote about the king of camp's newest film, which kind of flew under the radar IMO:

One of the funnier things I’ve edited

Sundance Film Festival 2025 “The New York City guys go blasting through traffic,” a young controller on Park Avenue quipped to his fellow beanied co-worker. Not that Park Avenue, where seeing piles of pedestrians muck through sn...

And my written dispatch from Sundance, for @screenslate.bsky.social:
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Sundance 2025 #3, with Lovia Gyarkye, Alana Pockros, and Lisa Wong Macabasco The Film Comment Podcast · Episode

Last week, I podcasted from Sundance Film Festival with @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy. We discussed some good, really good, and bad movies!
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Reflections on burning A warm (too warm) welcome to 2025.

I wrote something about how the fires and the internet are making me feel, and also Mike Davis:
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RFK Jr. Is Scary. His Online Fans Might Be Scarier. To understand RFK Jr.'s rightward shift, we need to examine the Internet culture that fostered his growth—and which the Harris campaign ignored.

Kennedy’s rise is one symptom of a cultural realignment that has merged hippie-coded New Age wellness fads with right-wing conspiracy thinking.
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Lauren Oyler and the Critic in the Internet Age In No Judgment, the novelist and critic explores the perilous activity of literary criticism in the era of social media.

For our April issue, I too wrote about Lauren Oyler’s NO JUDGMENT: a sort of underwhelming book, but one where Oyler’s attempt to be cynical actually reveals something fortuitous about her technique.

VOL. 01 IS HERE. Order on our website or request from your favorite independent purveyor of books and magazines.
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Vol. 01 launch parties have been scheduled for 12/2 in Cleveland and 12/7 in NYC. Details soon. Pencil us in. Use a pen even.

A really great essay which taught me many things but left me wondering: does Jordan Peterson have scurvy?

Family Punditry | Alana Pockros On social media, the children of far-right pundits and disgraced Republican candidates are achieving their own kind of fame.

Something I wrote! In case people are getting back on this platform and fleeing the other:

We have a new coat of paint!

Republicans Attacked These Queer Students' Lives. So They Fought Back. How three Kentucky high schoolers joined forces to stand up to a GOP assault on their rights—and brought hundreds of people along with them.

Really happy to have this lovely look at some very cool queer teens who fought back against Republican ghouls in Kentucky up on @thenation.com! https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/queer-kentucky-youth-rally/

the tectonic plates of the app just shifted bc @thenation.com’s very own @apockros.bsky.social has arrived!!