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Nell Beram

Who’s Got the Straight Edge (Besides Ian)?

November 28, 2021: It’s me! It’s me! After several decades of being straight edge, I wrote a cheerful little screed …

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No Thanks to (Most) Rom-Coms

September 26, 2021: The problem with romantic comedies is that you already know the ending, so what’s the point? Having …

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Happy 65th Birthday to Jerry Hall, Who I Officially Love Now

July 2, 2021: You know how you were always rooting for Jerry Hall for some reason, but you didn’t know …

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Sorry: Not about Abbott and Costello

May 9, 2021: Oh, hello. Today I review a fine novel by Eleanor Morse called Margreete’s Harbor for the Portland …

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All About Plumb

April 5, 2021: Oh yes: That’s Eve Plumb in a scene from 2013’s stellar indie neo-noir Blue Ruin. Say, did …

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Punk Rock = Film Noir

March 24, 2021: That’s what I think, anyway. I wrote an essay on my little hypothesis, and the great Bright …

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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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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, Bright Lights Film Journal, The Cut, Salon, and Slate and in The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, L'Officiel, The Threepenny Review, V magazine, and elsewhere.

She lives in the Boston area with her family.

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