I’m Annie Berke: culture writer, book author, and film/TV editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books. You can read my work at The New Republic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Literary Hub, and McSweeney’s.
Having earned my PhD from Yale in American Studies/Film & Media, I now live in the D.C.-Metro area.
Author of Their Own Best Creations (University of California Press, 2022)
My book on women television writers in 1950s TV is the first of the “Feminist Media Histories” series out of University of California Press. You can read reviews and purchase a copy here.
Editor/Columnist at the Los Angeles Review of Books
I started commissioning and developmental-editing reviews, essays, and interviews for the Los Angeles Review of Books in 2019. I also work as a contributing editor for the LARB Quarterly (print).
Together with fellow Film/TV editors Elizabeth Alsop and Michael Szalay, I contribute to our ongoing column “Screen Shots.”
Freelance Writer (Criticism, Essays, Fiction)
My beats as a critic and culture writer include Hollywood movies/TV, contemporary literature, comedy, gender/feminism, higher education, and the media industries. You can read my work at the New York Times, the New Republic, the Washington Post, Village Voice, Literary Hub, The Yale Review, the Chronicle for Higher Education, the Washington City Paper, and the A.V. Club.
I have also published fiction at Pithead Chapel, Maudlin House, HOOT, and Five South, as well as humor pieces in McSweeney’s, The Belladonna Comedy, and Points In Case.