Eleanor Cummins
JoinedJune 5, 2019
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Eleanor Cummins is s a freelance journalist in Brooklyn. She is a former editor at Popular Science. Her story on Babe Ruth's cancer treatment was an editor's pick of the week on Longreads, and her reporting on oyster rehabilitation in New York City won the 2017 Edible Communities award for best reporting on sustainability. In her free time, she writes The Pine Overcoat, a newsletter about death and design.
Taylor Swift in 'Miss Americana' | Netflix

Sick and Famous

Eleanor Cummins·
Issue 81: Sacrifice
Celebrity documentaries have always fed on pain, but the way that pain is framed has changed radically in the last half-century; celebrity itself is now a disease—an affliction that curdles the mind and batters the body all while coating you in gold.
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Jennifer Lopez in Hustlers (2019) | art by Brianna Ashby

Lady Crimes

Eleanor Cummins·
Extras
Critics and fans have accurately described Hustlers as a bedazzled Recession-era period piece. But the movie is equally specific to our times, the first in Hollywood history to produce movie after movie about ordinary(ish) women doing crimes. 
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