When I first saw American Movie, I was working at a vintage clothing store and blithely guzzling vodka sodas until four in the morning; I had recently graduated from college and had plenty of time to land myself in a 30 Under 30 list or apply to graduate school. There were no failures yet, only promise.
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Tess Lynch was one of the original editors of Bright Wall/Dark Room, dating back to our launch as a tumblr page in July 2009. She is a writer living in Los Angeles. Her essays have appeared in Grantland, Salon, The Morning News, The Awl, Granta and n+1.
This is true horror: alienating someone until they are somewhere between human and animal, fighting to survive, un-buffered by the comforts of others.


