Annie Berke is the Senior Humanities Editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books and a freelance culture writer with bylines in The New Republic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Yale Review. Her book, Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television came out in 202
Having earned her PhD from Yale in American Studies/Film & Media, she now lives 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.
Recent Publications
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.