Alexandra Kleeman

Boulder

Author and Writer at Freelance

Author of YOU TOO CAN HAVE A BODY LIKE MINE and SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN ☀️ 🔥 professor teaching creative writing at @cornelluniversity

Articles

Forget Grotesque Sights. David Cronenberg Does Grotesque Desires.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Alexandra Kleeman

18 hours agoScare yourself with these picks. Hulu is packed with fascinating horror films. Before we get into a list of the absolute best options on the streaming service, let's cover some worthy alternates. Hulu is home to Fede Álvarez's Alien: Romulus (2024) and David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future (2022). …
Why a Running Retreat Is the Perfect Way to See Ireland

Oct 15, 2024 | travelandleisure.com | Alexandra Kleeman

Ireland's gently undulating landscape is ideal for long-distance runs.
7 Books About Fictional Technologies with World-Altering Consequences - Electric Literature

Apr 23, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Richard Powers |Alexandra Kleeman |Vauhini Vara |Debbie Urbanski

I left New York in 2009 for grad school, and by the time I returned—just a few years later—the city had been transformed. Walking to the subway, on the sidewalks and escalators, almost everyone carried a pet screen. Sometimes people banged into things or ran into each other, too absorbed in the digital world to navigate the real one. Commuters swooned over their devices on the train, heads drooping and backs bent, like so many nodding-off drunks. It happened to me too.
3 Story Collections That Show Just How Strange Life Can Be

Mar 7, 2024 | nytimes.com | Alexandra Kleeman

What to Read Find Your Next Book March Releases Critics' Reviews Editors' Choice 100 Notable Books The ShortlistNew books by Bora Chung, Rafael Frumkin and Laird Hunt explore the chaotic intricacies of being alive. We were promised a future full of innovation, a tomorrow filled with sleek technologies that would whisk us far away from the most mundane aspects of our humanity. Technology has indeed gotten sleeker - so why do we seem so stubbornly the same?
Provocative Sex Is Back at the Movies. But Are We Ready for It?

Dec 11, 2023 | nytimes.com | Alexandra Kleeman

After an awkward MeToo hiatus, 'May December' and other films are showing intimacy in messy, complicated ways again. Alden Ehrenreich and Phoebe Dynevor in "Fair Play." Credit... Photo illustration by Chantal Jahchan In Todd Haynes's newest film, "May December," Joe Yoo (Charles Melton) is a 30-something man in a marriage with an unconventional back story. He met his wife, Gracie Atherton-Yoo (Julianne Moore), the summer after seventh grade - but she was 36 at the time.
The Boys Who Got Lost in the Sewers of Staten Island

Dec 4, 2023 | curbed.com | Alexandra Kleeman

The tunnel was “dark, lots of spiders, and really tight,” said one of the five boys who got lost in a Staten Island sewer. A round six o’clock on a Tuesday evening, fire-alarm dispatcher Marlind Haxhialiu overheard a call come into the 911 dispatch in Brooklyn where he was stationed. Another dispatcher was asking the caller, a young boy from the sound of it, what address the child was calling from. “We don’t know,” said the voice on the other end of the line.
I Grew Up Visiting Taiwan — but Only Recently Explored Its Mountains, Beaches, and National Parks

Oct 29, 2023 | travelandleisure.com | Alexandra Kleeman

A mountain embodies a certain notion of the absolute: the enormity of natural terrain and the deep time it took to shape it, condensed into one hulking totality. But as I climbed what felt like my millionth flight of stairs toward the peak of Qixing Mountain, in Taiwan’s Yangmingshan National Park, I was reminded that a mountain can also be relative.
Molly McGhee & Alexandra Kleeman

Sep 7, 2023 | greenlightbookstore.com | Molly McGhee |Alexandra Kleeman

IN-STORETuesday, October 17, 7:30 PMBook launch: Molly McGhee presents Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind: A NovelIn conversation with Alexandra KleemanWine reception to followJonathan Abernathy is behind on his debts, has no prospects, and no ambitions. But when a government loan forgiveness program offers him a literal dream job, he thinks he's found his big break. As Abernathy finds his footing in this role, reality and morality begin to warp around him.
Five Best: Books on Advertising

Jul 28, 2023 | vnexplorer.net | David Ogilvy |Joshua Ferris |Alexandra Kleeman |Mary Lawrence

An image from David Ogilvy's 1951 ad campaign for Hathaway shirts. By David Ogilvy (1983)1. A classic never dies. And so the father of advertising, as David Ogilvy is known, will forever occupy a place on bookshelves, just as his taglines linger in the American psyche. While "Confessions of an Advertising Man" (1963) is his most famous title, "Ogilvy on Advertising" proves the most helpful guide for any newbie copywriter or graphic designer trying to break into the industry.
The architecture of mental health: identifying the combination of apartment building design requirements for positive mental health outcomes

Jun 22, 2023 | thelancet.com | Paula Hooper |Alexandra Kleeman |Nicole Edwards |Julian Bolleter

22Bailey K. Cluster analysis. in: Uprichard E. Byrne D. Cluster analysis: four Volume set. SAGE Publications, : 552-567 First, a Ward's hierarchical cluster analysis was employed to help determine the number of clusters. Hierarchical clustering typically starts with single objects which are combined to create clusters based on similarity. Clusters are then combined until one single cluster is achieved.