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Cloris Leachman Is My Second Favorite Sorority Gal

January 31, 2021: Well, insert sigh here: I was already planning to use this Cloris Leachman photo for this post …

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Not That You Asked…

December 31, 2020: In response to an overwhelming lack of demand, I’m listing the five best books about old Hollywood …

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“I’m from the Bronx”

December 27, 2020: Oh good: today the Portland Press Herald runs my review of a thriller set in the Bronx—it’s …

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I’m the Best! I Mean I’m a Best!

December 25, 2020: Merry Christmas to me: Salon has selected my essay “‘Low Class’ Donald Trump and the Wasps: Reckoning …

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Such a Character (Actor)!

November 19, 2020: You know how I’ve always meant to but haven’t (yet) written a book about golden-age Hollywood character …

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I Have a Good Excuse!

October 25, 2020: Today in the Portland Press Herald I review Carol Goodman’s The Sea of Lost Girls (see here), …

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Bumpy Night, Holy Cripes

October 11, 2020: Jessica Barry’s second thriller, Don’t Turn Around, which I review today (see here) in the Portland Press …

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It’s Mame! I Mean It’s Maine!

July 26, 2020: Angela Lansbury was, of course, Broadway’s Mame, and she was, even of courser, Maine personified by Jessica …

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Why James Garner?

May 10, 2020: Two reasons. One: I love James Garner. Two: He played Philip Marlowe in 1969’s marvelous shambles Marlowe, …

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Jennifer Jones Made Her Do It!

May 8, 2020: I haven’t read Emma Straub’s 2012 novel, Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures, but I believe she wrote …

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Nell Beram

Nell Beram is a former Atlantic Monthly staff editor and coauthor of Yoko Ono: Collector of Skies (Abrams, 2013). Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared at The Awl, The Cut, Slate, and Salon and in The New York Times Book Review, L'Officiel, The Threepenny Review, V magazine, and elsewhere.

She lives in the Boston area with her husband and children.

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