The Myth of the Perfect Writer’s Room
In touring the history of writerly spaces, “The Writer’s Room” elegantly describes the rooms kept by Maya Angelou, Charles Dickens, Joan Didion, John Keats, and other luminaries. It finds…
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The Brilliance and the Badness of “The Sun Also Rises”
The second sentence is “Do not think that I am very much impressed by that as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn.” Even to my teen-age self, this was a weird sentence. The “much”…
"We Made A Mistake": 36 Terrible, Terrible TV Storylines The Writers And Actors Now Regret
36 Terrible TV Storylines Actors And Writers Regret 1. The Friends cast was not a fan of the Joey and Rachel romantic storyline (which fans also hated) — particularly Matt LeBlanc, who…
Fans Think They Found Proof That The "Stranger Things" Creators Used AI In The Writers' Room
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The Wild, Sad Life of John Cage’s First Lover
Why not New York? Personal factors may have been at work: in L.A., Cage’s parents could provide support. But L.A. was also coming into its own as a cultural center. The Austrian-born…
A Night in the Writers’ Room: Drama Writers Mix It Up on Writing Process, Time Spent in the Room and to Outline or Not to Outline
From the first question, Variety’s A Night in the Writers’ Room gathering of five drama showrunners was a lively affair as the scribes compared notes and reflected on how much television…
‘Shogun’ Season 2 Sets New and Returning Cast, Writers and Directors
“Shogun” Season 2 has unveiled its writers, directors and new and returning cast members. Newcomers for Season 2 include Asami Kizukawa as Aya, Masataka Kubota as Hyūga, Sho Kaneta as…
Variety’s ‘A Night in the Writers’ Room: Awards Season Edition’ Returns for 2025
Variety’s A Night in the Writers’ Room returns for its annual Awards Season Edition on Nov. 12 in Los Angeles. This highly anticipated event will shine a spotlight on this fall awards…
George Saunders and Zadie Smith Talk with Deborah Treisman
On October 25, 2025, the writers George Saunders and Zadie Smith took the stage with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, for a discussion at the 26th annual New Yorker…
WGA Says Warner Bros. Merger Would Be a ‘Disaster’ for Writers
The Writers Guild of America came out swinging on Thursday against a merger between Warner Bros. and any other studio, saying such consolidation would be a “disaster” for writers. The…
50 Mind-Blowing Movie Moments That Prove Writers Were Ten Steps Ahead Of Us
50 Clever Foreshadowing Movie Moments Over on Reddit, people in r/moviedetails have been calling out the most clever foreshadowing in film history. Here are their most "OMG" submissions:…
László Krasznahorkai and Contemporary Europe’s Perilous Reality
In 2011, I wrote that reading László Krasznahorkai “is a little like seeing a group of people standing in a circle in a town square, apparently warming their hands at a fire, only to…
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Chris Kraus Reinvents the True-Crime Novel
On a recent Sunday morning, I took a bus to Williamsburg to meet Chris Kraus, the seventy-year-old writer who attained permanent literary It Girl status with her début novel, “I Love…
‘Conjuring’ Writers Chad and Carey Hayes to Make Directorial Debut With ‘Train,’ Frances O’Connor to Star (EXCLUSIVE)
Chad and Carey Hayes, the writing team behind “The Conjuring,” are making their first foray into directing with the thriller “Train,” which will star Frances O’Connor. The project reunites…
The War on Trans Art
In July, the artist Amy Sherald pulled out of a large-scale show at the Smithsonian after learning that she might not be able to include a portrait of Lady Liberty as a Black trans woman.…
‘Dexter: Original Sin’ Canceled Despite Renewal Announcement, ‘Dexter: Resurrection’ Season 2 Writers Room to Open Soon (EXCLUSIVE)
“Dexter: Original Sin” is not returning for Season 2 after all. Variety has learned from sources that Paramount has opted not to move forward with another season of the prequel series. A…
Bob Odenkirk Says It’s ‘Very Easy’ For Young Writers on ‘SNL’ to Get Their Ideas ‘Shot Down’ By Senior Staffers: ‘It Was a Good Thing To Learn What Not to Do’
Bob Odenkirk learned a valuable lesson for “Mr. Show” during his days writing on “Saturday Night Live.” During a recent episode of Variety‘s “Know Their Lines,” Odenkirk said he and…
Bob Odenkirk on Changing ‘Nobody 2’ Setting From Venice to a Rundown Resort and His Fitness Regimen: ‘Trying to Turn a Comedy Writer’s Body Into an Action Hero’s’
Bob Odenkirk could have treated the production of “Nobody 2” as a European vacation. The original draft for the sequel to his 2021 sleeper hit, “Nobody,” had Hutch, the suburban dad/secret…
Warner Bros. Discovery and Series Mania Institute Select Winner of Writers’ Programme
Warner Bros. Discovery Access UK and the Series Mania Institute have selected French screenwriter Julie-Anna Grignon as the winner of their 2025 Writers’ Programme. Grignon, who previously…
‘And Just Like That’ Writers on Carrie’s Heartbreak and the ‘Untenable Situation’ With Aidan
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Present Tense,” Season 3, Episode 9 of “And Just Like That,” now streaming on HBO Max. Carrie and Aidan — the rebound romance that has…
Rachel Kushner’s Advice to Writers
The novelist Rachel Kushner recently taught a class at Stanford that concerned, as the course catalogue advertised it, “the sacred art of stealing from the world.” All four of Kushner’s…
Writers Guild of America West Leaves X After Grok’s Antisemitic Posts
The Writers Guild of America West is leaving X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk. In a post to Instagram on Wednesday, the organization wrote, “Writers Guild of America West…
Curzio Malaparte’s Shock Tactics
“You’re a born Fascist, one of the authentic ones,” the Italian writer Piero Gobetti wrote to his friend Curzio Malaparte in 1925, three years into Mussolini’s dictatorship. Gobetti,…
An Enduring Archive of Queer Writers’ Portraits
Giard grew up in a working-class family in Hartford, Connecticut. When he entered public high school, he was shunted onto the remedial track, because, as he wrote, “it was simply assumed…