Brittany K. Allen
@britt-kathryn.bsky.social
staff writer at Literary Hub 🌹
actor, prosewright, playwright
Big Chill apologist
words in McSweeney’s Quarterly, Lampblack, Kenyon Review, Epiphany, etc.
actor, prosewright, playwright
Big Chill apologist
words in McSweeney’s Quarterly, Lampblack, Kenyon Review, Epiphany, etc.
two eggnogs in and raving about the Marxist merits of Trading Places to my bemused family, merry christmas to one and all from the hometown sectional!
December 24, 2025 at 1:32 AM
two eggnogs in and raving about the Marxist merits of Trading Places to my bemused family, merry christmas to one and all from the hometown sectional!
Really loved learning more about @equatormag.bsky.social ! You should subscribe to this rad new rag!!
Meet the cool new magazine that’s taking the globe by storm.
It’s been the opposite of what you might call a banner year for legacy media. Public faith in our papers of record continues to erode. The monoculture’s in shambles, and you can’t…
lithub.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Really loved learning more about @equatormag.bsky.social ! You should subscribe to this rad new rag!!
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I came up with dozens of categories to organize my thoughts on my year in theater: defector.com/the-best-and...
The Best And The Most Of My 2025 In Theater | Defector
Going to live theater is one of the main things I do in my life, so I have decided to highlight some of this year’s productions that particularly excelled in categories that I just now made up. Best C...
defector.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I came up with dozens of categories to organize my thoughts on my year in theater: defector.com/the-best-and...
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Wonderful new piece up at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social on Jane Austen at 250, spirited writing, fun facts, notes on an exhibition, something for ardent fans and casual readers of the novelist alike lareviewofbooks.org/article/happ... --by @sinsleyh.bsky.social
Happy Birthday, Jane! | Los Angeles Review of Books
To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, Stephanie Insley Hershinow offers a survey of recent Austen-related books and artworks.
lareviewofbooks.org
December 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Wonderful new piece up at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social on Jane Austen at 250, spirited writing, fun facts, notes on an exhibition, something for ardent fans and casual readers of the novelist alike lareviewofbooks.org/article/happ... --by @sinsleyh.bsky.social
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“Was I a DEI hire?” It’s a question that WIRED senior writer Jason Parham sometimes asks. In an industry perpetually on the verge of extinction, Parham jokes that the only reason he’s survived so long is because he’s Black. www.wired.com/story/dei-di...
DEI Died This Year. Maybe It Was Supposed To
I’m a Black staffer at WIRED. My position feels more precarious than ever. There’s a reason for that.
www.wired.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
“Was I a DEI hire?” It’s a question that WIRED senior writer Jason Parham sometimes asks. In an industry perpetually on the verge of extinction, Parham jokes that the only reason he’s survived so long is because he’s Black. www.wired.com/story/dei-di...
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Round out your end-of-the-year book recommendations with 43 new books our staff loved in 2025.
Lit Hub’s 43 Favorite Books of 2025
It’s been another hard year for so many people, and in so many ways, but best-of lists are for remembering the good times, and reading is always good (at least the way we do it). Here are the…
buff.ly
December 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Round out your end-of-the-year book recommendations with 43 new books our staff loved in 2025.
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@britt-kathryn.bsky.social remembers Tom Stoppard.
Remembering Tom Stoppard, the thinker’s playwright.
Tis a truth universally acknowledged: all precocious theatre kids raised up in Western traditions meet Arcadia or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at some point sophomore year, then franticall…
buff.ly
December 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
@britt-kathryn.bsky.social remembers Tom Stoppard.
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@britt-kathryn.bsky.social tells Hollywood what it should do with a live-action Eloise.
Rejected pitches for the live-action Eloise.
Eloise, the OG enfant terrible best known for causing mayhem at the Plaza Hotel, is getting a live adaptation. And an unlikely duo is behind it: Ryan Reynolds and Amy Sherman-Palladino, of Deadpool…
buff.ly
November 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
@britt-kathryn.bsky.social tells Hollywood what it should do with a live-action Eloise.
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Happy #ElectionDay, New York!
Polls are open statewide from 6am-9pm. Remember, if you are in line to vote when the polls close, stay in line!
If you notice any issues at the polls, get in touch with the Election Protection hotline at 866-OUR-VOTE.
Polls are open statewide from 6am-9pm. Remember, if you are in line to vote when the polls close, stay in line!
If you notice any issues at the polls, get in touch with the Election Protection hotline at 866-OUR-VOTE.
November 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Happy #ElectionDay, New York!
Polls are open statewide from 6am-9pm. Remember, if you are in line to vote when the polls close, stay in line!
If you notice any issues at the polls, get in touch with the Election Protection hotline at 866-OUR-VOTE.
Polls are open statewide from 6am-9pm. Remember, if you are in line to vote when the polls close, stay in line!
If you notice any issues at the polls, get in touch with the Election Protection hotline at 866-OUR-VOTE.
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Here is the list of all the “good bars” in NYC that will be showing @hellgatenyc.com’s general election livestream. Have another one? Let us/me know.
October 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Here is the list of all the “good bars” in NYC that will be showing @hellgatenyc.com’s general election livestream. Have another one? Let us/me know.
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October 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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This is great 🙏🏽
"Contemporary manosphere literature certainly paints a landscape of patriarchy in crisis, at war with itself about how it should wield its own power."
Leah Abrams, "Into the Manosphere—in Manuscripts"
clereviewofbooks.com/into-the-man...
Leah Abrams, "Into the Manosphere—in Manuscripts"
clereviewofbooks.com/into-the-man...
Into the Manosphere—in Manuscripts - Cleveland Review of Books
Contemporary manosphere literature certainly paints a landscape of patriarchy in crisis, at war with itself about how it should wield its own power.
clereviewofbooks.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
This is great 🙏🏽
Smiley Southern boo was just made fire warden at his office, i.e., I am shacking up with Kenneth the page
October 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Smiley Southern boo was just made fire warden at his office, i.e., I am shacking up with Kenneth the page
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Aww man, this week is really coming for the heroes! Thinking about the Black Messiah today.
D’Angelo, Groundbreaking R&B Artist, Dies at 51
From his 1995 debut Brown Sugar to his 2014 comeback Black Messiah, he helped define the neo-soul movement
pitchfork.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Aww man, this week is really coming for the heroes! Thinking about the Black Messiah today.
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A lovely surprise to see this list go live today: lithub.com/58-books-you...
It's a good list, y'all. Complex and weird and fun and human.
It's a good list, y'all. Complex and weird and fun and human.
58 Books You Need to Read (Recommended by People Who Know)
In honor of Literary Hub’s tenth birthday, we asked over 200 authors, editors, booksellers, publishing professionals, and other literary luminaries to weigh in on a few questions about the pa…
lithub.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
A lovely surprise to see this list go live today: lithub.com/58-books-you...
It's a good list, y'all. Complex and weird and fun and human.
It's a good list, y'all. Complex and weird and fun and human.
Had a ball reporting on the midnight Shadow Ticket release party, over @literaryhub.bsky.social ! 💃
In Line With All the Pynchon Fans at the Midnight Release of Shadow Ticket
It’s 10:30pm on a Monday, and a line a dozen deep has formed outside Greenlight Books in Brooklyn. A dapper employee in suspenders and fedora comes out to give instructions—we’re to “say we know To…
lithub.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Had a ball reporting on the midnight Shadow Ticket release party, over @literaryhub.bsky.social ! 💃
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A well lived and long life. RIP
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
A well lived and long life. RIP
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blackgirlwatching.substack.com/p/one-battle...
One Fetish After Another: PTA Exploits Black Women and Averts Revolution
One Fetish After Another: PTA Exploits Black Women and Averts Revolution
One Fetish After Another: PTA Exploits Black Women and Averts Revolution
Paul Thomas Anderson's action flick leaves much to be desired.
blackgirlwatching.substack.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:44 AM
blackgirlwatching.substack.com/p/one-battle...
One Fetish After Another: PTA Exploits Black Women and Averts Revolution
One Fetish After Another: PTA Exploits Black Women and Averts Revolution
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The Haters won. But the Table of Success is forever. tableofsuccess.hellgatenyc.com
Home - Table of Success
Eric Adams has said that “all my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success.” The haters are no longer waiters—on Wednesday, September 25, amidst widening investigations into his...
tableofsuccess.hellgatenyc.com
September 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The Haters won. But the Table of Success is forever. tableofsuccess.hellgatenyc.com
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Assata Shakur, of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, has died at the age of 78 in Cuba, where she received political asylum in 1984.
September 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Assata Shakur, of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, has died at the age of 78 in Cuba, where she received political asylum in 1984.
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One Battle After Another has definitely got some things going for it (it's wildly entertaining and the performances are top-notch). But it also makes clear why Anderson rarely centers Black women in his films. The white male characters portrayed by DiCaprio and Penn are more prominent, realized...
a man and a woman walking down a sidewalk with #one battle after another written on the bottom
ALT: a man and a woman walking down a sidewalk with #one battle after another written on the bottom
media.tenor.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
One Battle After Another has definitely got some things going for it (it's wildly entertaining and the performances are top-notch). But it also makes clear why Anderson rarely centers Black women in his films. The white male characters portrayed by DiCaprio and Penn are more prominent, realized...
attn: Black feminist critics; sorry to be ~that bish~ but I desperately need your takes on the new PTA 😂
September 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
attn: Black feminist critics; sorry to be ~that bish~ but I desperately need your takes on the new PTA 😂
waxed on (and off) for @literaryhub.bsky.social about our current tv obsession with dead/dying media 👀
Why are we so obsessed (lately) with TV shows about dying media?
On Peacock, a new sitcom about a flatlining local paper is attempting to draw eyeballs back to the newsroom. (Of all places!) And last Monday, The Studio, an inside Hollywood baseball game, swept t…
lithub.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
waxed on (and off) for @literaryhub.bsky.social about our current tv obsession with dead/dying media 👀
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I know correlation isn’t causation, and I know numbers this small are anecdotes not data, but Redford, like Lynch, certainly does provide evidence towards the notion that trying to do good in your life might be related to continuing to get hotter right up until the day you pass from this earth
September 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I know correlation isn’t causation, and I know numbers this small are anecdotes not data, but Redford, like Lynch, certainly does provide evidence towards the notion that trying to do good in your life might be related to continuing to get hotter right up until the day you pass from this earth