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Megan Abbott

@meganabbott.bsky.social

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NYT-bestselling author of EL DORADO DRIVE (out June 24, 2025), BEWARE THE WOMAN, THE TURNOUT, GIVE ME YOUR HAND, YOU WILL KNOW ME, THE FEVER, etc. Co-creator/showrunner: DARE ME on Netflix. www.meganabbott.com

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · May 24

This interview was incredibly fun (and a great excuse to live out my film noir dreams with the photo shoot)

Big thanks to Sophia Nguyen (and to Amir Hamja)
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Megan Abbott and the lure of private worlds

The crime writer talks about her new novel, “El Dorado Drive,” and what keeps her motivated: “I always want to go to a place I haven’t gone.”

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 14h

"morbidness, longing, the picturesque" — that seems right for THE TURNOUT, on this excellent list.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/b...

Dark Academia: A Starter Pack

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 2d

www.interviewmagazine.com/film/frances...

Frances McDormand & Cameron Crowe Talk 'Almost Famous,' Burgers

Cameron Crowe sits down with Frances McDormand to talk the Coen Brothers, 'Almost Famous,' and how to make small talk with waiters à la Andy Warhol.

www.interviewmagazine.com

Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 2d

*dying*

Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 2d

Came across this long-ago Frances McDormand interview (with Cameron Crowe) and found this gem:

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 3d

“There is no doubt in my mind that the most beautiful music is sad, and the most beautiful photography is in a low-key, with rich blacks.”

HBD, cinematographer and noir master John Alton ...

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 4d

Great and very funny Q&A with Benny Safdie & @davidehrlich.bsky.social after a screening of THE SMASHING MACHINE, an utterly winning portrait of an athlete as tortured artist. Dwayne Johnson is transcendently good.

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 6d

“There is a splinter of ice in the heart of a writer.”

HBD, Graham Greene...
📸Kurt Hutton, 1954

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 9d

we will have to discuss at the next FC™️!

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 9d

Come for the tantalizing title, stay for the radical communitarianism.
Now streaming, don't miss it.
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A ★★★★½ review of Secret Mall Apartment (2024)

Don't let the title or logline mislead you. This isn't one of those amusing documentaries about a few oddball eccentrics, a prank run amok. Instead, this is a rich, lively case study of the fight agai...

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 10d

saving it for just the right moment!

Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 10d

HBD, the king of noir, Jim Thompson ...

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 12d

can't wait to see it again--took my breath away.

Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 12d

very sorry you'll miss it.

Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 12d

as an insomniac, a 5:30am screening is a tantalizing prospect!

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 12d

Go see it this weekend, the biggest screen you can find. Here's a movie that can express and amplify all your rage, frustration, alarm, fatigue...and most of all your need for hope.

A ★★★★★ review of One Battle After Another (2025)

¡viva la revolución! once in a great while a movie meets its moment and the collision is explosive, exhilarating, incendiary. a film for our times and maybe a better one than we deserve.

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 13d

CANNOT WAIT!

Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 13d

“You’ve got sadness in you, I’ve got sadness in me – and my works of art are places where the two sadnesses can meet, and therefore both of us need to feel less sad.”

HBD, Mark Rothko ...

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 14d

HBD, the extraordinary F. Scott Fitzgerald ...💔

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 16d

THE LOWDOWN is awfully good.
www.vulture.com/article/the-...

The Lowdown Ambles Toward Glory

A spiky character study of Ethan Hawke’s dirtbag “truthstorian” reveals itself as a surprising showcase for Sterlin Harjo’s creative vision.

www.vulture.com

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you so much! ♥️

Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 17d

www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...

Two Years After Cormac McCarthy's Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library Reveals the Man Behind the Myth

The famously reclusive novelist amassed a collection of thousands of books ranging in topics from philosophical treatises to advanced mathematics to the naked mole-rat

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 17d

Cormac McCarthy's living room, with shelves he designed to fit 1,000 books, or 5% of his personal library.

📸Wayne Martin Belger, @smithsonianmag.bsky.social

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 17d

ccing @louberney.bsky.social too!

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 17d

With two of my absolute favorite writers--thank you, Vick!

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 18d

“Art is the opposite of politics." So said Leni Riefenstahl.

Seeing this latest, most lacerating documentary at any point in the last decade would feel harrowingly relevant. Seeing it this week, well ...
(now playing at the Quad in NYC)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/m...

‘Riefenstahl’ Review: Hitler’s Favorite Filmmaker Revisited

www.nytimes.com

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