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Michelle Cohn

New York

Humor and Culture Writer at Freelance

🐚🍦 humor/culture writer @vulture // @pastemagazine // @ElectricLit // @reductress // @mcsweeneys // @GOLDcomedy and more

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Articles

  • ‘I’m Such a Bitch Before I Have Coffee’ Says Woman Who Is Also a Bitch After

    Jan 9, 2025 | reductress.com | Michelle Cohn

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  • Susan Sontag’s “Notes on (Summer) Camp”

    Aug 9, 2024 | mcsweeneys.net | Michelle Cohn

    What is camp? Well, it’s a vision. It’s unmistakable. It’s sharing a bunk with seven other girls and having a rotating schedule of who the entire bunk has decided to hate this week. Camp is big. It’s brash. It’s more often than not “Hate Katie” week. Camp is a way of seeing the world as an aesthetic phenomenon. Camp is artifice. It is style. And by style, I mean cutting the sleeves off your T-shirts so they look like they got halfway caught in a shredder.

  • Children and adults produce distinct technology- and human-directed speech

    Jul 5, 2024 | flipboard.com | Michelle Cohn |Santiago Barreda |Katharine Graf Estes |Zhou J. Yu |Georgia Zellou

    6 hours agoSay what? I would be quite surprised if you perchance knew what hurkle-durkle means. You would either need to be on top of the latest online viral trend that has been chattering endlessly about hurkle-durkling or you have an impressive vocabulary and ought to pat yourself on the back accordingly. …

  • Obvious Child Helped Birth a Genre

    Jun 13, 2024 | pastemagazine.com | Michelle Cohn

    What does it mean to “normalize” something? Is it acknowledging the importance so consistently that we accept its weight as a fact of life (marriage, divorce, death)? Is it establishing such widespread support for a topic that the social tide eventually sways towards one opinion over another (bank floats at pride, consulting firms tweeting about International Women’s Day)? Is it making something so banal that it’s hard to imagine it was ever revolutionary (online shopping, cell phones)?

  • The 10 Best Comedy Specials of 2024 (So Far)

    Jun 4, 2024 | pastemagazine.com | Clare Martin |Michelle Cohn

    We’re only halfway through 2024, and already it feels like a banner year for comedy. We here at the Paste had a difficult time narrowing things down to the ten best comedy specials of 2024 (so far), and unfortunately had to leave some greats on the cutting room floor that are still very much worth your time.

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Michelle Cohn
Michelle Cohn @michcohn
2 Mar 25

first piece in @LAReviewofBooks

Los Angeles Review of Books
Los Angeles Review of Books @LAReviewofBooks

"An artifact can be both object and subject. A place can be both home and foreign. A documentary can be both real and mystical." Michelle Cohn (@michcohn) examines one of the 2025 Oscar snubs, Mati Diop's "Dahomey." https://t.co/taUkwSaGJW https://t.co/7VUzWjhGGP

Michelle Cohn
Michelle Cohn @michcohn
30 Jan 25

show THIS SUNDAY we got writers from LAST WEEK TONIGHT and SETH MEYERS and THE ONION and THE NEW YORKER and EVERYTHING!! https://t.co/p5hga1e5e2

Michelle Cohn
Michelle Cohn @michcohn
30 Nov 24

RT @terribletown: Check out this Adult Swim pilot I made with @chrisfluming and a bunch of talented friends back in 2021. Unfortunately did…