Author of PURE FLAME (2021), and THIS IS RUNNING FOR YOUR LIFE (both FSG). Terrible at Twitter.
Brooklyn, NY
Joined October 2009
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Happy birthday to PURE FLAME, and to my mom, who would have turned 77 today. I’m so grateful for this considered, generous review: nytimes.com/2021/06/01/books…
In honor of Madonna Day, my 2023 @NewYorker piece on one of our greatest artists and most electrifying performers. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
Michelle Orange retweeted
“Romvari emphasizes the fracturing effects of Jeremy’s chaos, the way trauma can isolate, replicating the estrangement from which it springs.” — @michelleorange on BLUE HERON, in this week’s @4_columns. 4columns.org/orange-michelle…
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“Plenty of Leni Riefenstahl’s signature self-pity and prevarication is on display here, redolent now as ever of the many uses of doublespeak.”—@michelleorange writes about “Riefenstahl,” the new documentary directed by Andres Veiel 4columns.org/orange-michelle…
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"The context Riefenstahl insisted upon, across decades spent trying to puzzle together a viable edit of her own story, is also what condemns her." —@michelleorange on RIEFENSTAHL, in this week's @4_columns. 4columns.org/orange-michelle…
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This week's Top 5:
➡️ Dark-web dealing
➡️ A cruel tradition
➡️ Revisiting Twain
➡️ Flushing in flux
➡️ An unlikely reunion
longreads.com/2025/05/30/the…
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"They have names like Hashtag Uppity, Flamin Paws, Mizzen the Point, and Corona Virus. . . At top speed, the greyhound inhabits its modern ensign: almost completely horizontal, a flying em dash." @michelleorange @oxfordamerican
oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/gr…
My new story about the last two active greyhound racetracks in the country, for @oxfordamerican, is also a sneak preview of DOG PEOPLE, forthcoming from @astrahousebooks. oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/gr…
For your long-weekend reading list--then check out the whole terrific issue.
“Why does a man gamble? What makes a greyhound run?” —#MichelleOrange explores the tangled past and unsettled future of greyhound racing in West Virginia in this new preview of our Summer 2025 Y’all Street Issue!
shorturl.at/tPGh2
Art by Clare Menck
Michelle Orange retweeted
“Unlike the novel, Almodóvar paves a smooth and stylish path for Martha’s departure…focusing on a friendship that lacks the spark of life.” —@michelleorange on THE ROOM NEXT DOOR, in this week’s @4_columns. 4columns.org/orange-michelle…
I wrote about THE ROOM NEXT DOOR, Pedro Almodóvar's solemn, strangely hollow first English-language feature, @4_columns 4columns.org/orange-michelle…
After 21 years in the U.S., this immigrant and newly naturalized citizen has voted in her first federal election. If you haven't already and if you can: please, please vote today.
Michelle Orange retweeted
“In its willingness to linger, to foreground character as a function of existence in time, Annie Baker’s film is closely allied with the work of Chantal Akerman: scenes of gloom and stillness offset by streaks of life.”—@michelleorange on “Janet Planet” 4columns.org/orange-michelle…
I wrote about Annie Baker's JANET PLANET and its portrait of a most tender mother-daughter rupture @4_columns. 4columns.org/orange-michelle…
I get to speak with Geoffrey Mak about MEAN BOYS, his extraordinary debut, at @booksaremagicbk tonight, come join us!
I wrote about WE LOVED IT ALL, Lydia Millet's first nonfiction book, @4_columns. 4columns.org/orange-michelle…
I wrote about LA CHIMERA, the new film from Alice Rohrwacher, for @4_columns 4columns.org/orange-michelle…
Michelle Orange retweeted
"Though one translation of 'la chimera' is 'the fantasy,' the title’s invocation of a mythical hybrid beast—fascinating, perhaps, but less-than-functional—is just as apt." —@michelleorange on LA CHIMERA, in this week's @4_columns. 4columns.org/orange-michelle…
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Notes of elegy sound throughout a new and raucous oral history of the Village Voice, laments for something too good to last, but also for a moment of honest and urgent revolt, @michelleorange writes. nyer.cm/ErteS4m