Meet Me in St. Louis and the gap between what we want the holidays to be and what they actually are. Read More
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Erika Schmidt is an award-winning writer living in Berkeley, California. She is the 2013 recipient of the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award for short fiction. A graduate of Northwestern University's Creative Writing and Theatre Programs, she has trained as a writer at StoryStudio Chicago and Narrative Magazine, and as an actor at the School at Steppenwolf.
On the one hand, it’s a thrill to see Don out in the open, no longer encumbered by his secret. On the other, honesty doesn’t seem to have clarified his life all that much. Read More
There has to be some internal work going on, too. Otherwise the nostalgia will get you in the end. Read More
“Forecast” (Season 7, Episode 10) Congratulations, Ted Chaough: you get the most irresistibly apt line in an episode packed to... Read More
“Time & Life” (Season 7, Episode 11) Yowza. When you’re already cheering during the opening credits, you know it’s gonna... Read More
all photos courtesy of AMC “Lost Horizon” (Season 7, Episode 12) I once had vertigo for twenty days straight. The... Read More
In the end, Don is saved by strangers. Read More
illustration by Brianna AshbyWhiplash opens on a black screen with a slightly-too-loud-for-comfort drum roll, starting so slowly we can barely recognize... Read More
So you’re on the run. The bad news: you’re being pursued by both international spies and by the American police.... Read More
She wasn’t an avatar for women’s liberation; she was the real thing. And, in the deft hands of Mary Tyler Moore, she was funny as hell. Read More