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soraya roberts

@sorayaroberts

5 months

i have an agent now. she sent me this. 💋

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3 years

it makes my day that malala married a hottie.

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4 years

when i am bored of my proper work i start researching eighties actors no one cares about but i do and so today i have discovered mallory's boyfriend nick from family ties is now a partner at a boutique investment firm and looks like my dad.

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8 months

i would rather get hate mail than this creepy shit

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6 years

what.

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6 years

the woman who sold geoffrey owens out to the mail clearly knows nothing about a career in the arts.

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soraya roberts

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7 years

jonathan van ness ❤️

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soraya roberts

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4 years

very smart dissection of @aoc 's revelation by @moiradonegan who will have had to have written this pretty fast to get it up so soon after the fact. impressive clarity and depth for such a quick turnaround. this bit in particular is very familiar:

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1 year

oh man, the quotes in the vulture tv piece.

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6 years

i'm always curious about how many people these sorts of things actually went through.

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7 years

shit works. #emmys

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4 years

TIL jason mantzoukas and connie britton were once a couple.

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soraya roberts

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1 year

wrote about KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and why martin scorsese was the one to tell this story.

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soraya roberts

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5 years

i love the idea of phoebe waller-bridge and andrew scott puzzling endlessly over why the world wants to fuck him so much.

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7 years

these baby pictures of scott moir and tessa virtue are giving me life.

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soraya roberts

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6 years

mahershala ali stopped saying yes to roles after GREEN BOOK because he believed it was his wife’s time to focus on her art. i can’t think of many - if any - actors who would do this at their peak.

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soraya roberts

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2 years

fucking adorable

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2 years

the great @mckinneykelsey on the contraction of the internet.

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1 year

@jennygzhang @nerdygirly I was like: only?!?!? (:///)

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soraya roberts

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6 years

from 2016 to 2017, the number of millennials who identify as lgbtq increased by 1.2%, while it is only 0.2% for gen-xers. this might explain why:

The Queer Generation Gap - Longreads

How the sexual fluidity of the next generation reflects the limitations of the one that came before it.

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soraya roberts

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3 years

the horror of the nineties celebrity profile

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soraya roberts

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11 months

this is very cute.

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soraya roberts

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4 years

i am no longer a columnist at longreads. @saribotton & i resigned together in solidarity (you can't actually resign as a permalancer but we did anyway). i will forever be greatful to @reportermike for hiring me on sari's recommendation & supporting me whole-heartedly. 1/9

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soraya roberts

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6 years

i wrote about that thing where every week we all rush to cover the same thing at the same time and the same, like, two people are lifted up above the flood. and what kind of cultural critic are you if yer not coining some shit!

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4 years

"he says it boo-sem-ee, not boo-shem-ee" 🤯

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soraya roberts

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5 years

i wrote about the $4 a word thing. whether or not you share this is a litmus test (kidding...sort of ;)).

If I Made $4 a Word, This Article Would Be Worth $10,000 - Longreads

Journalism’s one percent would rather make up a fake feud than address the reality of the industry’s pay disparity, which benefits them and no one else.

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soraya roberts

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3 years

oh, hello turkish actor can yaman who i have never heard of before but whose name i will now know forever

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5 years

oof, but glad AZIZ ANSARI isn’t approaching this like louis ck.

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5 years

canadian media is racist. 🇨🇦

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soraya roberts

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7 years

the toronto public library is looking for a romance writer in residence, which is kind of awesome.

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soraya roberts

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3 years

whenever i see JIM CAVIEZEL trending i can't stop thinking about the person who worked with him who said he was so dumb she hoped he never got stuck in a paper bag because he would never be able to get out.

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2 years

“it spread almost like a cult film over here.” ICYMI i wrote about why RRR was the indian film to hit with western audiences. #rrrmovie @rrrmovie @defectormedia

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soraya roberts

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6 years

john singleton was 24 when his DEBUT - BOYZ N THE HOOD - was nominated for the oscar for best director, also making him the first african american in the category. bow down!

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2 years

im not the only one who thinks this shit is weird right

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soraya roberts

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6 months

“I was warned by friends in the film community that no one would talk to me about TIFF. I spoke to 10 people for this piece. Among the 17 others I contacted, most did not respond.” My feature on the TIFF Lightbox has dropped.

How Did TIFF’s Lightbox Become Its Money Pit?

The outlook was bright for the Toronto International Film Festival when the arts organization opened its sparkly King Street hub 14 years ago. What happened?

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1 year

soderbergh, the man who always delivers.

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soraya roberts

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6 years

🚨FROM YOUR NEW CULTURE COLUMNIST @LONGREADS 🚨: i wrote about stephen elliott, louis c.k. & aziz ansari, the men who lack the self-awareness to apply their prescriptive masculinity to themselves.

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1 year

omg, steven soderbergh on lack of data transparency by streamers is 👑

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1 year

jesus, @davidklion on our inability to learn.

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soraya roberts

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3 years

@ThatJakePC @redroomrantings he has a face from a 1970s children's show and i will never get over it

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5 years

WHY IS THIS THE PORTRAIT.

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soraya roberts

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7 years

1 + 1 = ...

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soraya roberts

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6 years

“enough,” this is so depressing.

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soraya roberts

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2 years

idk who the stylist is on ONLY MURDERS but i have never seen a woman with curves look so good on television.

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soraya roberts

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8 years

tuna neck wrote about carrie fisher and its adorable:

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soraya roberts

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7 years

I WROTE ABOUT WHY RUPI KAUR AND SO MANY INSTAPOETS ARE IN FACT BAD POETS AND WHY WE FAIL TO SPEAK THIS TRUTH OUT LOUD:

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soraya roberts

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9 years

so, basically, @MTV is julia roberts walking into ESPN, holding up bags of GRANTLAND staffers and saying: "big mistake. huge."

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1 year

BLACKBERRY director matt johnson gets at the problem with the arts in canada.

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soraya roberts

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6 years

“i don't want to be like a martyr for the horny cause.” @hunteryharris i wrote about thirst.

For the Thirsty Girl - Longreads

Thirst used to be desperation, now it's aspiration. And men are finding it hard to quench.

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soraya roberts

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1 year

the last paragraph of NICKEL AND DIMED by barbara ehrenreich, a seer, published in 2001.

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soraya roberts

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4 years

HELEN SLATER, who got only $75,000 in 1984 to star in SUPERGIRL, the 1st ever female-led superhero film, told me: “for me, that was more money than i could ever imagine.” ahead of WONDER WOMAN 1984, i went long @hazlitt on female superheroes now & then:

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soraya roberts

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4 years

love that netflix canada keeps upping the price while maintaining HALF the content available to americans. altho frankly from what i can tell about their aesthetics mandate, if you've watched one netflix original, you've watched them all.

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soraya roberts

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2 years

me to this adam levine story

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soraya roberts

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1 year

watching the last episode of SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE and i am going to miss this guy more than the entire roy family combined

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2 years

“we have a problem with our structure that has to be blown up.” my investigation into canadian television's lack of diversity is finally here. a big thank you to the executives/producers/academics who talked.

The Superficial Diversity of Canadian TV | The Walrus

How risk avoidance shapes our entertainment

thewalrus.ca

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soraya roberts

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6 years

"no."

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soraya roberts

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5 years

@BrandyLJensen I think it’s from a puppy mill :/ I looked it up :/

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soraya roberts

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7 years

"i was, and continue to be, the only black medical student in my cohort of 259 medical students at university of toronto." bet the first nations numbers aren't much better.

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soraya roberts

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2 years

i wrote about ai "art."

AI Art Only Looks Like Art If You Don't Care | Defector

Years ago, I remember an image online catching my eye. It was two photos, side by side, that purported to be of a perfectly symmetrical face. In the left photo, the left side of the face had been...

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i didn't get it.

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1 year

@maddiewhittle Omg do we have to explain this to ppl :/

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soraya roberts

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4 years

who was your first film crush? mine was PATRICK SWAYZE in DIRTY DANCING.

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soraya roberts

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1 year

no one does crime stories like this fucking magazine and i would give my eyeteeth for the chance to do one there (imagine having skip hollandsworth as a mentor?!)

Everyone Thought They Knew Who Killed Susan Woods

That left the real culprit free to prey on others, including one victim who was ignored for two decades.

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4 years

this is like a darwin award group effort.

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soraya roberts

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4 years

i know automattic ceo matt mullenweg believes his data backs him up. i know every tech millionaire believes the utopia in their minds. i wonder why none of them ever stop to ask why their numbers, their plans, always come at the expense of everyone below them. 8/9

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5 years

i have extreme anxiety over this column but i think it’s important for white journalists to own up to how they cover black culture (usually badly). infinite thanks to @carvellwallace @sorayamcdonald @craftingmystyle & @ira for not telling me to fuck off.

White Looks - Longreads

Should white critics cover black culture? Only if they're able to own their whiteness.

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3 years

@KindaHagi this guy is totally gonna drop dead at 40 of some undetected heart valve issue

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5 years

it’s weird when deserving people win. it’s like a mindfuck.

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soraya roberts

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6 years

i wrote about the death of ROOKIE -- and LENNY and THE TOAST and THE HAIRPIN -- which all have one thing in common, they were run and read by young women. coincidence?

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soraya roberts

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1 year

i spoke to the people who did this. i had to. it was haunting me. #itysl

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soraya roberts

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4 years

if you are looking for a culture writer or editor, i am as available as the thousands of other journalists without staff positions. my email is meyrink @hotmail .com. and, of course, there is no better colleague than @saribotton . hire her first. 9/9

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soraya roberts

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1 year

also publications either can’t or won’t pay to send you anywhere anymore. so basically even a field story becomes one that is within your own community in the end.

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i wanted to google who came up with the choreo for this and apparently cate blanchett just showed up to the set of the music video /w red headphones on and did her own dance (she was supposed to stand still lol).

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4 years

“she was kind of an easy laugh, but that’s ok. i’ll take it.” oh my god. :x

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soraya roberts

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2 years

they need a word for the rage i feel having been a model tenant for 10 years siphoning $200k into this person’s pocket and getting this kind of response to a request to slow down the rent increases.

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soraya roberts

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6 months

ICYMI i wrote about the shit going on in the toronto arts scene.

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soraya roberts

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10 months

can’t stop thinking about all those people who think privatizing everything is the way to go because the government is inefficient or doesn’t use funds properly or whatever. private companies are openly stealing from everyone and actively destroying the world and it’s like: cool.

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soraya roberts

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3 years

BEN STILLER, hands down my favourite interview of all time.

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soraya roberts

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6 years

i wrote about how we continue to romanticize journalism even though it's a well-established shit show: "yes, it's cool...and i might be out of a job next week."

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soraya roberts

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4 years

i want to live in a world where this is the sum total of news.

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soraya roberts

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6 years

“often child sex abuse is bundled up into an issue of violence against women, and therefore it is catering to girls rather than boys.” i wrote @longreads about the boys of hollywood whose abuse is not reckoned with on its own gendered terms.

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soraya roberts

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8 years

“Everything used to be wilder and more romantic.”

Chloë Sevigny: ‘I now have total disdain for directors’

In the 90s she was dubbed ‘the coolest girl in the world’. Now happily reunited with Whit Stillman, she looks back at her rollercoaster career

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“two of the most pressing issues of this dark and darkening period: hair trigger violence among americans and the constant drumbeat of propaganda against the homeless and here we are today at the perfect intersection of the two.” @lukeoneil47

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"Instead, Raab was connected to Brandon Rubinshtein, a publicist who also represents Dennis Rodman through his non-public-facing PR firm, Dog Shit Media." ROLFMAO.

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soraya roberts

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i wrote about how rich executives have fucked the arts in toronto and how the media has just kind of watched. thanks @thelocal_to and amazing editor @nickhunebrown for asking ❤️

Toronto’s Arts Institutions Are Crumbling and it’s Always the Same Story | The Local

The trouble at Hot Docs, TIFF, Artscape and the AGO are part of a larger failure in a country that doesn’t take art seriously.

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soraya roberts

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1 year

joan didion in the sixties got, adjusted for inflation, $15,000 for an ESSAY

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1965 Esquire spent $5,000 over three months while Gay Talese researched "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold". That's $48,000 adjusted for inflation.

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soraya roberts

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5 months

early for banff writing residency, room looks very conducive to a pulitzer 🖋️

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2 years

smart little nugget by @willsloanesq on removing corporate ownership from the “modern myths” they have fostered.

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soraya roberts

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7 years

went long @hazlitt on sofia coppola & her fixation on young privileged white women: #thebeguiled

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soraya roberts

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6 years

was sick of being told what i HAVE TO consume so i wrote about pop culture becoming homework.

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soraya roberts

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6 years

i wrote about how useless it feels to be a critic when the planet is dying...and what we can do about it (it doesn't include fighting with celebrities).

Critics: Endgame - Longreads

If there's no earth, there's no art. How do you engage in cultural criticism at the end of the world?

longreads.com

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soraya roberts

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4 years

MALE PODCASTERS: stop interrupting your guests. for FUCKSSAKE.

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soraya roberts

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2 years

MY HUGE BILAL BAIG PROFILE DROPPED @MACLEANS (4k wds). it is HARD to find a home for in-depth celebrity profiles in canada. i pitched this piece EVERYWHERE & am thankful to @emilylandau for taking it. more editors need to commission pieces like this. 1/3

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soraya roberts

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5 years

fyi: i am sick af (karma?) so will be offline today but i worked for months on this piece. it’s the real story behind the feminist blogosphere and the women who helped make feminism what it is today — even if they aren’t recognized for it.

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soraya roberts

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4 years

do you know how many times i have wanted it to be a one night stand and it’s nonconsensually turned into a relationship?

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1 year

this made my day

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soraya roberts

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4 years

writing sucks for many reasons but one of the big ones is that you almost definitely know when it's working. so every time you DON'T feel that, it's, like, why am i bothering. which is, like, about 80 percent of the time.

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soraya roberts

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hi, my name is soraya and i'm addicted to THE FUGITIVE. first piece @theatlantic on why my generation (hi @annetdonahue , @mattzollerseitz @mulaney ) remains obsessed with a drug called provasic:

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