Autumn Doerr's Blog

On Rachel Kushner's New Yorker Personal History Essay "I prefer memories that stay fragile, vulnerable to erasure, like the soft feel of the velvet couches in Freddy's living room." Rachel Kushner wrote that line in a New Yorker essay, “The Hard Crowd: Coming of age on the streets of San Francisco” (January 18, 2021 issue). I don’t have many photographs from my time in San Francisco in the late ’80s, for the same reason. We were living, not memorializing. It’s strange, then, that I’m doing...

Acclaimed "Ride or Die" captivates audiences with a stellar cast and high critical scores, streaming on Prime. I was sitting at my local café and overheard a guy telling the barista that he missed when television series had an A story, a B story, and a C story. Now it's ten main characters, he said, and it's exhausting. He called it superhero syndrome, the way every property now needs a phalanx of heroes standing shoulder to shoulder to justify the budget. He was complaining about a landscape...

I explain why the Springsteen film "Deliver Me from Nowhere" is a film that speaks to our troubled times.

An exploration of the stunning finale of Endeavour.

A theory as to why Agatha Christie is still the queen of mystery.

What would it be like to spend time in Lulu Miller's head. Read "Why Fish Don't Exist" and you will get a glimpse of a curious mind, a seeker of truths. Miller is a talented writer who can explain scientific concepts at the most human, gut level. She wants to know what drives a mad scientist like David Starr Jordan to continue to categorize fish after devastating setbacks. How do you look at a man like Starr Jordan who distorted and twisted Darwin's theory of Evolution to promote eugenics?...

Tana French's most recent book, “The Searcher,” is a deep dive into the soft and hard edges of ex-cop Cal Hooper—a blow in from...

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Well, I should be farther along but it's 2020. It's the lost year. I give myself credit for 50 pages in the book and a very nice outline....