@Reckless_Edit

Poet and critic. New book @BloomsburyAcad out 2.19. Words @Hopkins_Review @poetrymagazine @Curaffairs @Jacobin @Hyperallergic @Reverse_Shot @theBafflermag

 St. Louis, Missouri
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Decadent, matte, and velvety news: My forthcoming LIPSTICK book @BloomsburyAcad has an official pub date (FEB 5) & a preorder page! Explore the beauty world's most conspicuous – and contentious – tool of artifice. bloomsbury.com/us/lipstick-9…… #beauty #lipstick #ChappellRoan #Madonna

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Eileen G'Sell@Reckless_EditOct 12
Happy 25th Birthday to MULHOLLAND DRIVE, one of my all-time favorite films! In honor of its anniversary, I edited a collection of feminist essays for @FilmQuarterly—the articles are FREE to access at present, authored by @serxaphym, @lwestengard, and @LoriMarso! @ucpress #Lynch
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Reverse Shot@reverse_shotOct 16
And with @Reckless_Edit on ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK, our #NYFF coverage is officially complete. It's been a great year, thanks to all our brilliant contributors.
Eileen G'Sell@Reckless_EditOct 16
#NYFF: With the urgent pace of a Safdie production sans the graphic violence, Noah Segan's THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK jolts forward like a rusting express train. Honored to review for @reverse_shot @TheNYFF @MovingImageNYC.
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Eileen G'Sell@Reckless_EditOct 16
#NYFF: With the urgent pace of a Safdie production sans the graphic violence, Noah Segan's THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK jolts forward like a rusting express train. Honored to review for @reverse_shot @TheNYFF @MovingImageNYC.
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#NYFF: With the urgent pace of a Safdie production sans the graphic violence, Noah Segan's THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK jolts forward like a rusting express train. Honored to review for @reverse_shot @TheNYFF @MovingImageNYC.
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The Only Living Pickpocket in New York

At its best, Pickpocket reveals the intricate moral calculus required among the most economically marginalized to survive. The film also acknowledges the small ways in which New Yorkers take care of...

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Honored to conduct an exclusive interview with indigenous artist Sara Flores @hyperallergic. Currently representing Peru @la_Biennale, Flores is featured in a doc that premiered @TIFF_NET and comes stateside @DOCNYCfest next month.
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Sara Flores Paints What the World Stands to Lose

“Every opportunity to show my work is a platform to raise attention on the struggle for self-determination and cultural resistance of the Shipibo people,” the artist told Hyperallergic.

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Happy 25th Birthday to MULHOLLAND DRIVE, one of my all-time favorite films! In honor of its anniversary, I edited a collection of feminist essays for @FilmQuarterly—the articles are FREE to access at present, authored by @serxaphym, @lwestengard, and @LoriMarso! @ucpress #Lynch
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Uncanny Intimacies, Abject Desires

This article introduces the dossier “Mulholland Drive at 25.” What did Mulholland Drive (2001) say about female fantasy, suffering, and desire at the turn of the twenty-first century, and how might...

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#NYFF: oh, the feral children of France! Bruno Dumont’s RED ROCKS reminds us of how inimitably the director captures childhood affect and antics. I didn’t buy the Romeo & Juliet conceit, but the class tensions on the Riviera were compelling. @TheNYFF @FilmLinc
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#NYFF: Sandra Wollner’s EVERYTIME felt like Tom Tykwer meets Ursula K. Le Guinn. If a bit uneven, it was ultimately as moving as it was unabashedly strange. @TheNYFF @FilmLinc
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#NYFF: one of my top traditions is visiting the @Sephora down the block from @FilmLinc in a fierce outfit that the beauty consultants appreciate.
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#NYFF: Almodovar's BITTER CHRISTMAS is, as any film from the director, a smorgasbord of dazzling visuals. But it's also one of the boldest excavations of the writing process and pesky ethics therein. Bonus points for a top-shelf striptease scene. @TheNYFF @FilmLinc @todoalmodovar
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#NYFF: A poetic visual elegy for artists during the AIDS pandemic, THE MAN I LOVE urges us to live. @TheNYFF @FilmLinc @irasachs
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#NYFF: If loosely inspired by Mrs. Dalloway, Chuko and Arie Esiri's CLARISSA is a stunningly original film that that poetically cumulates like the best Woolf prose. Sophie Okonedo is brilliant. @TheNYFF @FilmLinc @dailyokonedo
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Sherrilyn Ifill said it best: “This is a time in which we need a much more robust definition of what it means to be a citizen.” Ava Duvernay’s latest doc—14th—is both an edifying and disquieting account of our country at its best and worst. @TheNYFF @avaduvernayfans
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Next week at @WashULaw: a panel on how self-adornment intersects with sex work stigma and transphobia. Honored to be surrounded by such brilliance! @BloomsburyAcad
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Just read this devastating piece by Nikole Hannah-Jones—which took tremendous humility and courage to publish. Having mentored students in St. Louis’s poorest districts for two decades, I’m less shocked by her account than newly indignant. nytimes.com/2026/09/20/magaz…

In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?

A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.

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An Edgar Allan sweet tooth…
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Totally floored by the beauty and depth of Rafael Manuel’s Filipiñana @wufilmseries. Dreamy, meditative, and devastating…
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