briana
@heybrianaj.bsky.social
📍new york city. she/her. southern university alumna. arkansas native. pr girl and writer with commentary and criticism on books, cinema, theater, fashion, arts & culture.
Why did fashion make us so mad in 2025? By Rachel Tashjian www.cnn.com/style/fashio...
Why did fashion make us so mad in 2025? | CNN
Fashion! A delight to the senses, a thing of beauty, a source of pleasure, pain and, in its determined ridiculousness, humor. But this year, fashion was more likely to inspire something else: pure, un...
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December 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Why did fashion make us so mad in 2025? By Rachel Tashjian www.cnn.com/style/fashio...
Is Vogue Still Relevant? Rachel Tashjian on Fashion’s Power Shift
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Is Vogue Still Relevant? Rachel Tashjian on Fashion’s Power Shift
"Anytime a Vogue cover comes out, there’s such a strong reaction to whether or not this is 'Vogue' or not," says Tashjian.
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December 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Is Vogue Still Relevant? Rachel Tashjian on Fashion’s Power Shift
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I'm not a big fan of heavily curated ways of engaging with film, music, books, and art.
December 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I'm not a big fan of heavily curated ways of engaging with film, music, books, and art.
I like anti-Booktube "influencers" who read "ugly" books and lesser-known backlisted titles and classics. People who don't just read whatever hot litfic book just dropped by some "weird girl" author.
December 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I like anti-Booktube "influencers" who read "ugly" books and lesser-known backlisted titles and classics. People who don't just read whatever hot litfic book just dropped by some "weird girl" author.
Should I go for 144 books or do 120 books again for my 2026 reading challenge?
December 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Should I go for 144 books or do 120 books again for my 2026 reading challenge?
I really enjoy Classic Hollywood and New Hollywood.
December 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I really enjoy Classic Hollywood and New Hollywood.
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BOTD Jane Birkin!!
MCCT5: 5)Je t'aime 4)Piscine 3)Jane B/Agnes V (Varda) 2)Daddy Nostalgia 1)Belle Noiseuse
More:
@oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/tributes/fai...
@evincentelli.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2023/07/16/a...
Joumana Khatib re new bio: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...
MCCT5: 5)Je t'aime 4)Piscine 3)Jane B/Agnes V (Varda) 2)Daddy Nostalgia 1)Belle Noiseuse
More:
@oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/tributes/fai...
@evincentelli.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2023/07/16/a...
Joumana Khatib re new bio: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...
Beyond Handbags and French Bad Boys: Reconsidering Jane Birkin
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December 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
BOTD Jane Birkin!!
MCCT5: 5)Je t'aime 4)Piscine 3)Jane B/Agnes V (Varda) 2)Daddy Nostalgia 1)Belle Noiseuse
More:
@oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/tributes/fai...
@evincentelli.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2023/07/16/a...
Joumana Khatib re new bio: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...
MCCT5: 5)Je t'aime 4)Piscine 3)Jane B/Agnes V (Varda) 2)Daddy Nostalgia 1)Belle Noiseuse
More:
@oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/tributes/fai...
@evincentelli.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2023/07/16/a...
Joumana Khatib re new bio: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...
Reading Strindberg today.
December 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Reading Strindberg today.
Eve Babitz has every party girl thinking she should become a writer.
December 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Eve Babitz has every party girl thinking she should become a writer.
I read Henrik Ibsen's 1884 play "The Wild Duck" for the first time today and wooooooooow. It reaffirmed my hatred for men but it was EXQUISITE and so melancholic. I need to hunt down where I can see this. #BrianaReads
December 9, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I read Henrik Ibsen's 1884 play "The Wild Duck" for the first time today and wooooooooow. It reaffirmed my hatred for men but it was EXQUISITE and so melancholic. I need to hunt down where I can see this. #BrianaReads
So in other news, I am reading August Wilson’s entire Century Cycle this month for the first time. This whole month I’m reading nothing but plays and I’m very excited. #BrianaReads
December 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
So in other news, I am reading August Wilson’s entire Century Cycle this month for the first time. This whole month I’m reading nothing but plays and I’m very excited. #BrianaReads
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“John the Evangelist is clear that the Bible is not the Word of God; Jesus is the Word of God. It says so in the Bible, you see—John’s Gospel, chapter one. You can’t have two Words of God.” —Diarmaid MacCulloch
An Outsider from the Beginning | Diarmaid MacCulloch
Sifting the contradictions of the Bible can bring Jesus and Mary into sharper focus and illuminate their surprisingly human features.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“John the Evangelist is clear that the Bible is not the Word of God; Jesus is the Word of God. It says so in the Bible, you see—John’s Gospel, chapter one. You can’t have two Words of God.” —Diarmaid MacCulloch
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"Preservation can, when led by artists and community members, become as much an act of imagination as one of maintenance."
Aaron Boehmer writes on community libraries and the importance of accessible archival and literary resources nowadays: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/freeing-the-library/
Aaron Boehmer writes on community libraries and the importance of accessible archival and literary resources nowadays: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/freeing-the-library/
December 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
"Preservation can, when led by artists and community members, become as much an act of imagination as one of maintenance."
Aaron Boehmer writes on community libraries and the importance of accessible archival and literary resources nowadays: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/freeing-the-library/
Aaron Boehmer writes on community libraries and the importance of accessible archival and literary resources nowadays: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/freeing-the-library/
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Esteemed NYFCC member Melissa Anderson's collection of film criticism, THE HUNGER, is now available for purchase.
The Hunger: Film Writing, 2012–2024 by Melissa Anderson — Film Desk Books
Published by Film Desk Books, 2025 Perfect bound softcover First edition of 1,500 276 pages 8×5.5 inches Click here to read an interview with Melissa Anderson about The Hunger on Mubi Click...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Esteemed NYFCC member Melissa Anderson's collection of film criticism, THE HUNGER, is now available for purchase.
We are officially a month before 2026. What are some of your reading goals for next year? What are you interested in learning more about? What genres and topics do you want to explore? What habits do you want to break?
December 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
We are officially a month before 2026. What are some of your reading goals for next year? What are you interested in learning more about? What genres and topics do you want to explore? What habits do you want to break?
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In the Mao-era labor camp of Miaoxi, “history has been rewritten to create a brand name, erasing the blood and tears of tens of thousands of prisoners.” —Ai Xiaoming, translated by Ian Johnson
The Road to Miaoxi | Ai Xiaoming, Ian Johnson
During the Cold War, educated people in free societies were so familiar with figures on the other side of the Iron Curtain that they were referred to just
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November 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
In the Mao-era labor camp of Miaoxi, “history has been rewritten to create a brand name, erasing the blood and tears of tens of thousands of prisoners.” —Ai Xiaoming, translated by Ian Johnson
So I'm definitely more of a Pinot Noir girlie over Cabernet Sauvignon. It's time to admit it.
November 29, 2025 at 3:06 AM
So I'm definitely more of a Pinot Noir girlie over Cabernet Sauvignon. It's time to admit it.
I'm looking for literary fiction or general contemporary fiction books that will rip my heart out and make me cry. Not because of trauma and death but because it's such a touching story. #bookrecs
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I'm looking for literary fiction or general contemporary fiction books that will rip my heart out and make me cry. Not because of trauma and death but because it's such a touching story. #bookrecs
“My library is an archive of longings.” – Susan Sontag
November 21, 2025 at 11:18 AM
“My library is an archive of longings.” – Susan Sontag
The 2026 Met Gala theme is “Costume Art” to mark the inauguration of the Condé M. Nast Galleries at the Costume Institute. It’ll be the first exhibition at their new permanent galleries. www.vogue.com/article/cost...
“Costume Art” Is the First Exhibition in the Costume Institute’s New Permanent Galleries at The Met
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November 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The 2026 Met Gala theme is “Costume Art” to mark the inauguration of the Condé M. Nast Galleries at the Costume Institute. It’ll be the first exhibition at their new permanent galleries. www.vogue.com/article/cost...
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“The sickness that once detached him from life had now made him greedy for experience.” How Robert Louis Stevenson navigated a lifetime of chronic illness.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Art of Living (and Dying)
On summer break from his university studies, a young Robert Louis Stevenson worked late into the night. He apprenticed in his family’s lighthouse engineering business but had no interest in the tra…
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November 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“The sickness that once detached him from life had now made him greedy for experience.” How Robert Louis Stevenson navigated a lifetime of chronic illness.
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Susan Neiman on the symbolic struggles that came to be called “woke”
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November 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Susan Neiman on the symbolic struggles that came to be called “woke”
I’d love to connect with people who are in or interested in film/cinema studies; specifically from a theoretical, critical, and historical standpoint.
Archivists, academics, scholars, librarians, historians, curators, and programmers are welcome.
Archivists, academics, scholars, librarians, historians, curators, and programmers are welcome.
November 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I’d love to connect with people who are in or interested in film/cinema studies; specifically from a theoretical, critical, and historical standpoint.
Archivists, academics, scholars, librarians, historians, curators, and programmers are welcome.
Archivists, academics, scholars, librarians, historians, curators, and programmers are welcome.
Folk horror, religious horror, psychosexual thrillers, and noir/neo-noir.
a woman in a striped suit is looking up at the sun
ALT: a woman in a striped suit is looking up at the sun
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November 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Folk horror, religious horror, psychosexual thrillers, and noir/neo-noir.
Two of my books came! 📚
• Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style by Graham Marsh and Jason Jules
• Superfine: Tailoring Black Style by Amanda Garfinkel, Monica L. Miller, and William DeGregorio #MetGala
• Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style by Graham Marsh and Jason Jules
• Superfine: Tailoring Black Style by Amanda Garfinkel, Monica L. Miller, and William DeGregorio #MetGala
October 31, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Two of my books came! 📚
• Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style by Graham Marsh and Jason Jules
• Superfine: Tailoring Black Style by Amanda Garfinkel, Monica L. Miller, and William DeGregorio #MetGala
• Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style by Graham Marsh and Jason Jules
• Superfine: Tailoring Black Style by Amanda Garfinkel, Monica L. Miller, and William DeGregorio #MetGala