Kerry Howley

Los Angeles

Feature Writer at New York Magazine

Staff Writer, New York Mag. Screenwriter. New Englander in Los Feliz.

Articles

Whitney Cummings Finds Her People

1 month ago | vulture.com | Kerry Howley

It is commonplace among poets and musicians and painters to express a fear of the audience — its ability to corrupt with praise, to transform art into parody — but this is not the case among stand-up comedians, who are given to cast the ticket holder as the arbiter of authenticity itself. “The audience doesn’t let you be delusional,” Whitney Cummings once said. “They just call bullshit on you.
The Sunday Long Read: Michael Luo, Spring Break, Starting Pitchers

2 months ago | mailchi.mp | Yiyun Li |Ronan Farrow |Kerry Howley |Philip Holsinger

And now, The SLR is all Michael's! More than two decades ago, when I was a young reporter interested in “narrative storytelling,” I bought a copy of Robert McKee’s, “Story: Style, Structure, and the Principles of Screenwriting.” The book went on to become an industry bible but also an object of contempt, blamed for movie making sapped of authenticity and originality.
The Fight Over Centenarians and Blue Zones

2 months ago | nymag.com | Kerry Howley

It is exceptionally hard to know how long long-lived animals endure. For the vast majority of species there are no growth rings to count, no blood tests to perform, no methods beyond marking time. The way scientists assess the longevity of wild animals is to tag them, go away, and hope to see them again. We know albatrosses live long lives because a 38-year-old ornithologist put a ring on a bird and caught her again when he was 84.
Winner im TV Programm: 22.01.

Jan 20, 2025 | hoerzu.at | Kerry Howley |Susanna Fogel

» Wahre Story, erzählt mit galligem Witz « BeschreibungKurioser Name, der wie die Faust aufs Auge passt: Reality Winner dringt dank ihres Faibles für exotische Idiome ins Herz der NSA vor - als Spezialistin für Abhörmanöver. Als sie Dokumente leakt, die Russlands Einflussnahme auf die USA belegen, wird sie festgenommen... Stark besetztes Biopic über eine kratzbürstige Idealistin.
Escaping Los Angeles

Jan 10, 2025 | nymag.com | Kerry Howley

I am not a worrier, not given to hear the call of catastrophe. In the middle of the night on Monday, amid the squeal of the wind, my husband got up to take down some chimes ringing through the dark. I laughed: What a ridiculous time to have wind chimes. The wind moaned, whimpered; doors shook. It made no sense that we lived here. We could barely afford this house, which was, in any case, a two-bedroom too small for a family of four.
What It's Like to Be on Trump's Enemies List

Nov 26, 2024 | nymag.com | Kerry Howley

They say anger is a secondary emotion," someone who has much to fear from the incoming administration told me last week. "So whatever's under that is ..." He paused. He had, throughout our conversation, veered relentlessly toward the general, away from the intensity of his experience.
Code Red

Oct 16, 2024 | nymag.com | Kerry Howley

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York's reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Small talk is physical. When well executed, it is a collection of gentle gestures well matched to the speaker, a unity of mind and body that never rises to the level of consciousness. When Tim Walz listens, he waits with his brows knit (and it helps, here, to have massive, bushy brows) and his hands clasped, thumbs touching.
Winner - Movie

Sep 13, 2024 | moviefone.com | Kerry Howley |Susanna Fogel

PG-13 1 hr 43 minComedy, DramaWinner is a brilliant young misfit from Texas who finds her morals challenged while serving in the U.S. Air Force and working as an NSA contractor. A fresh take on the traditional whistleblower thriller, the coming-of-age story follows an idealistic young woman persecuted for standing by her principles.
The Bitter Feud at the Heart of the Paleontology World

Aug 26, 2024 | nymag.com | Kerry Howley

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York's reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. In August 2017, a bubbly Dutch pink-haired 28-year-old graduate student flew from Amsterdam to South Dakota, where empty fields rolled wide before her, towns of a hundred people and a single church. "You a celebrity or somethin'?" a man had said last time she was in the area, picking up a can of Monster at a truck stop. "Not to my knowledge," she said.
Watching Joe Biden’s Oval Office Farewell Speech

Jul 26, 2024 | nymag.com | Kerry Howley

The Oval Office address. Photo: Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg People don’t survive to tell the tale of what it’s like to live through senescence. We can only look on from the outside, which most of us, most of the time, decline to do, though on July 24, millions put themselves through the agony of watching a man flicker in and out of focus. The performance was one of immense, sustained effort.