Carrie Courogen

Dec 5, 2024 | themillions.com | Carrie Courogen

Year in Reading: Carrie Courogen Some years my reading list is more structured and thematically tied than others, some years (particularly when I’m actively researching and writing), my list of recreational reads is embarrassingly thin. This gap year between finishing my first book and starting all-in on my second, I drifted toward whatever whim suited me, though in looking back, I see the patterns of my obsessions making their mark. The prospect of Ryan Murphy’s Feud: Capote vs.

Dec 4, 2024 | everand.com | Carrie Courogen

Some years my reading list is more structured and thematically tied than others, some years (particularly when I’m actively researching and writing), my list of recreational reads is embarrassingly thin. This gap year between finishing my first book and starting all-in on my second, I drifted toward whatever whim suited me, though in looking back, I see the patterns of my obsessions making their mark.

Oct 28, 2024 | brightwalldarkroom.com | Carrie Courogen

There’s a story Peter Bogdanovich liked to tell about his personal life during the mid-1970s. The ambitious director seemed to have burned through the goodwill he’d acquired in Hollywood almost as quickly as he’d earned it. He’d left his wife (and frequent collaborator) Polly Platt for a much younger starlet, Cybill Shepherd. After four acclaimed films—Targets, The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, and What’s Up, Doc?—the focus of his career had shifted; Cybill was now his muse.

Oct 5, 2024 | journalgazette.net | Chris Nashawaty |Barry Sonnenfeld |Daniel de Visé |Carrie Courogen

These works on Hollywood and filmmaking are newly available through the Allen County Public Library. “The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982”by Chris Nashawaty Examining the eight science fiction films released in 1982, including “E.T.,” “Blade Runner,” “The Thing” and “Mad Max,” a legendary entertainment journalist shows how these cult classics changed the careers of some of Hollywood’s now-biggest names as well as the art of moviemaking to this day.

Aug 6, 2024 | carriecourogen.substack.com | Carrie Courogen

Is this the kind of shit you’re get from me now that I’m officially unemployed? I don’t know. Maybe! I had sort of had the notes app thought dump early makings of a sort of depressing shut-up-carrie piece about, uh, the downside of building your life around one singular goal (surprise surprise it is not writing a book but actually working in corporate media lol) but instead of subjecting you to that brand of brain rot, I will be subjecting you to this brand of brain rot instead.