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  • 1 month ago | carriecourogen.substack.com | Carrie Courogen

    The night of my youngest sister’s surprise engagement party, I contemplated throwing myself into the heavy traffic that seems to always choke Penn Station no matter the hour. For once, I promise you, I am not being the slightest bit hyperbolic. Some context: It was midnight—my train back from Philadelphia had been delayed by more than two hours—and I was bone tired and ravenously hungry.

  • 2 months ago | brightwalldarkroom.com | Carrie Courogen

    I. Let’s start with a guided meditation: It’s 2004 and you’re going to the mall. It’s the end of the school day. Feel the locker combination spinning in your hand. Hear the jingling ringtone emanate from the pink Motorola Razr in your pocket, and the sound of your mom’s voice when you pick up. Her minivan is right out front, waiting to pick you and your BFF up. You’ve been waiting for this day, saving up your allowance for a new top to wear to the school dance on Friday.

  • Feb 12, 2025 | bookforum.com | Carrie Courogen

    ELAINE MAY DIDN’T SET OUT to become a director. What she really wanted to do was write. Her first film, A New Leaf, came about partly because it was 1968 and Paramount knew it would look good to hire a woman director. And partly because May wouldn’t sell her script without being guaranteed director approval—the only way to ensure her work didn’t get turned into something else entirely.

  • Jan 16, 2025 | carriecourogen.substack.com | Carrie Courogen

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  • Dec 20, 2024 | brightwalldarkroom.com | Carrie Courogen

    It’s always winter in Reds, even when it isn’t. It’s always winter, and someone is always arguing, someone is always plotting, someone is always unhappy—or dissatisfied, which isn’t the same as unhappiness, but isn’t too far off—always longing, always toiling away in an attempt to make it all better. And there’s so much that needs to be made better in Reds: marriages and writing, working conditions and politics, arguments and affairs.

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Carrie Courogen
Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen
27 Jun 25

RT @carriecourogen: Thinking, once again, of Nora Ephron's 2007 blog "It's Hard to be a Democrat" https://t.co/TZZmffOljx

Carrie Courogen
Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen
27 Jun 25

Can’t think of a better way to ensure people don’t vote for your party ever again by barraging them for years with messages that “your vote matters” and "vote blue no matter who" only to turn around and say "well no not like this"

Axios
Axios @axios

Many Democratic leaders and donors are panicking about Zohran Mamdani. https://t.co/dRazLEDtSG

Carrie Courogen
Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen
27 Jun 25

Ever since I was a little girl I knew I wanted to bully my elected officials on social media