Alissa Nutting

Nov 27, 2024 | autostraddle.com | Alissa Nutting

Despite the movie’s title and month-of-June time period, Midsommar has lots of clear Thanksgiving vibes. The most obvious, of course, being the whole, violent white people acting friendly while planning to kill you thing. Plus, Midsommar features a VERY BIG TABLE. Prominently! And filming took place from July through October. So, if you’re a highly sensitive person who asked yourself, Why am I being overtaken by FALL ENERGY in this alleged summer scene?!?!?

Sep 28, 2024 | autostraddle.com | Alissa Nutting

Welcome to Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene, a series by Drew Burnett Gregory and Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya about queer sex scenes in film. Sometimes, we’ll tap writers we love to contribute to the series. This week, Alissa Nutting — author of Tampa and Made for Love and executive producer of the Made for Love adaptation on Max — hops in to write about the best sex scene from Love Lies Bleeding, which might not be the scene you expect.

Jun 21, 2024 | miaminativemag.com | Jen Beagin |Casey McQuiston |Alissa Nutting

In 1973, the literary critic Harold Bloom proposed a new theory of authorly angst: “the anxiety of influence.” Writers wanted to be original. They worried they were what kids call copy-cats; they wished to wipe the words and ideas of their literary predecessors from their brains, like fingerprints from a crime-scene. ‍This affliction has yet to reach Miami. Perhaps it never will.

Dec 19, 2023 | electricliterature.com | Carmen Machado |Kathleen Alcott |Alissa Nutting |George Saunders

In talking about my debut story collection, House Gone Quiet, with friends and family, I’ve often found myself pitching the merits of the short story form itself. Due to habit or book marketing or a lack of exposure, it’s simply the case that most fiction readers who enter a bookstore are typically on the lookout for a novel (You can trust me on this one, as a former bookseller myself).

Jul 21, 2023 | powells.com | Nelly Reifler |Alissa Nutting |Mona Awad |Lucy Score

It’s not every day that two seemingly-polar-opposite blockbusters come out in theaters on the same day, and it’s even more rare that the venn diagram of those two releases has some significant overlap when it comes to existential crises about appearances and reality and... death! Who doesn’t love spending their summer afternoons awash in existential crises via Cillian Murphy’s cheekbones?