angelina mazza
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culture writer & romance scholar. currently @ slate. brooklyn by way of montreal 🌈
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My first story for
@nytimes.com
: a profile of Rachel Reid, bestselling author of Heated Rivalry. Still pinching myself!
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She Put the Heat in ‘Heated Rivalry’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/books/heated-rivalry-rachel-reid-hockey-romance.html?unlocked_article_code=1.908.w3zJ.PP5yfQD0DUXj&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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My first story for
@nytimes.com
: a profile of Rachel Reid, bestselling author of Heated Rivalry. Still pinching myself!
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She Put the Heat in ‘Heated Rivalry’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/books/heated-rivalry-rachel-reid-hockey-romance.html?unlocked_article_code=1.908.w3zJ.PP5yfQD0DUXj&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king
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my princess i remain your sickening servant (kim addonizio)
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@slate.com
let me &
@davidmackau.bsky.social
review the sex scenes in heated rivalry. I <3 journalism!
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Nitish Pahwa
4 months ago
@angejmazza.bsky.social
wrote a good one making this very point
slate.com/culture/2025...
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Most TV Shows Get This Major Plot Point Totally Wrong. This New Netflix Series Nailed It.
We turn to TV for escape—or at least to escape this.
https://slate.com/culture/2025/08/long-story-short-netflix-show-pandemic-covid-grief.html
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@defector.com
let me write about the BEST PLAY EVER. huge thanks to
@brandyjensen.bsky.social
for the smartest edits ❤️🔥
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The Revolution Will Be Extra-Curricular | Defector
How to describe what I heard from the orchestra? It happened one night at the Booth Theater during a preview performance of John Proctor Is the Villain. Raelynn Nix (Amalia Yoo), the preacher’s daught...
https://defector.com/the-revolution-will-be-extra-curricular?giftLink=87dd32fbb41ff591e2fcd933eac4bd09
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Joel Oppenheimer
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Sabrina Imbler
4 months ago
this
@laurentheisen.bsky.social
essay made me tear tf up on the way to the Clara Barton rest stop in New Jersey
defector.com/taylor-swift...
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Taylor Swift Turned Me Straight | Defector
I finally get Midnights. I don’t just mean, “Oh, I thought this album was whatever when I first heard it, and now I really love it,” though I do mean that a little bit. I mean I get it get it. Like, I...
https://defector.com/taylor-swift-turned-me-straight?giftLink=d72293c8b760da996514bb6ffe141df8
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READ MY SCREED ON
@slate.com
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It’s the Worst Website for Book Lovers. That’s What Makes It Irreplaceable.
Unlike everything else online, the site offers nothing but friction.
https://slate.com/life/2025/08/goodreads-best-books-authors-not-so-bad-really.html
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Nitish Pahwa
5 months ago
love this reflection from
@tonyhotran.bsky.social
on the chatbots that have always been with us:
slate.com/technology/2...
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I Had a Huge Middle School Crush. So I Used a Controversial Technology to Help Me Talk to Her.
SmarterChild taught a generation how to talk to machines.
https://slate.com/technology/2025/08/chatgpt-ai-llm-smarterchild-teens.html
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Materialists this….Materialists that….the REAL movie of the summer is
#KPOPDEMONHUNTERS
on
@netflix.com
😈 I spoke with the directors about their many influences & that bangerz soundtrack for
@slate.com
👀
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Netflix’s Ingenious New Hit Movie Is an Unlikely Mashup of Two Very Different Genres
The clever new movie from the studio behind Spider-Verse is an unlikely musical.
https://slate.com/culture/2025/06/kpop-demon-hunters-netflix-movie-songs-jinu-rumi.html
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Sara Hashemi
9 months ago
My first for Live Science, all about alien power sources 🛸⚡️
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Thrilled to share a piece I co-created for
@silver-nyc.com
’s Winter 2025 Sonic Dash 🎧 “In Stitches” examines obstetric violence from the perspective of a birth doula. Listen wherever you get your podcasts!
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Sonic Dash: Winter 2025 Finalist Spotlight - "In Stitches" (Chloe Irving, Angelina Mazza, and Stuart Leach) - Silver Podcast Network | iHeart
<p>Out of all the creators who participated in our Winter 2025 Sonic Dash, we were only able to feature the top three winners so far. Now, we would love to showcase some of the incredible work from th...
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/53-silver-podcast-network-112783527/episode/sonic-dash-winter-2025-finalist-spotlight-270722880
9 months ago
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Eva Holland
10 months ago
“Publishing has known for decades that it keeps the lights on. I feel like we’re finally ready to let our golden goose out of the basement and let it come to dinner.” I'm a month late to this LitHub piece from
@angejmazza.bsky.social
, which I appreciated very much:
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Enemies to Lovers: On the Romance Genre’s Mainstream Come-Up
Lately, I find myself bringing up romance on the dance floor. Do you know Talia Hibbert? A four-bedroom in Bushwick: picture me shouting over the music, my sweaty upper lip, hips swaying to a thump…
https://lithub.com/enemies-to-lovers-on-the-romance-genres-mainstream-come-up/
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Study Hall
10 months ago
@angejmazza.bsky.social
Reported On How Romance Novels Are Entering The Mainstream
studyhall.xyz/angelina-maz...
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Angelina Mazza Reported On How Romance Novels Entering The Mainstream
For Literary Hub, Angelina Mazza reported on “romance’s rising profile among mainstream literary readers.” For the piece, she spoke with “authors, editors, booksellers, publicists, and agent
https://studyhall.xyz/angelina-mazza-reported-on-how-romance-novels-entering-the-mainstream/
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The Uproot Project
10 months ago
"A new study uses satellite data to document environmental inequities in North Carolina." Uprooter
@sarahashemi.bsky.social
for
@sentientmedia.org
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Factory Farm Pollution Can Be Seen From Space, Scientists Say
A new study uses satellite data to document environmental inequities in North Carolina.
https://sentientmedia.org/factory-farm-pollution-space/
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Lit Hub
10 months ago
Angelina Mazza considers the romance novel’s mainstream moment: “Romance can do all those things, too, but its primary goal is pleasure and satisfaction and enjoyment. I think we struggle, as a culture, to see that as a valuable way to spend your time.”
lithub.com/enemies-to-l...
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Enemies to Lovers: On the Romance Genre’s Mainstream Come-Up
Lately, I find myself bringing up romance on the dance floor. Do you know Talia Hibbert? A four-bedroom in Bushwick: picture me shouting over the music, my sweaty upper lip, hips swaying to a thump…
https://lithub.com/enemies-to-lovers-on-the-romance-genres-mainstream-come-up/
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tom sayers
11 months ago
I loooove bob’s burgers & the belcher crew. If u do too read this journo love letter then sink yourself into some animation magic ❣️
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Sara Hashemi
11 months ago
My first for Sentient: Air pollution linked to industrial hog farms in eastern North Carolina can be seen from space, with higher levels of toxic pollutants in Black, Hispanic and Indigenous communities.
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Factory Farm Pollution Can Be Seen From Space, Scientists Say
A new study uses satellite data to document environmental inequities in North Carolina.
https://sentientmedia.org/factory-farm-pollution-space/
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My luv letter to Bob’s Burgers in THIS mag’s fall issue is now online! 💌🍔
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Family ties
Bob’s Burgers keeps getting better. Loren Bouchard’s animated sitcom, now in its 15th season on FOX, is bigger-hearted and far more ambitious than when it first aired in 2011. It has the kind of confi...
https://this.org/2024/10/10/family-tie
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11 months ago
I’ll be writing daily stories for
@smithsonianmag.bsky.social
’s Smart News section this month! Read my latest to learn more about the Santa Ana winds 💨
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L.A. Fire-Fueling Winds Slow Down, Offering a Short Reprieve. What Are the Santa Ana Winds, and Why Do They Fan the Flames?
The seasonal gusts have exacerbated the deadly fires, and they’re expected to pick back up next week
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/la-fire-fueling-winds-slow-down-offering-a-short-reprieve-what-are-the-santa-ana-winds-and-why-do-they-fan-the-flames-180985859/
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s. e. smith
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I'm at
@theverge.com
today talking about digital decay, link rot, watching my work slowly being erased from the internet, and how it makes me feel like I am fading away.
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What happens when the internet disappears?
Huge swaths of the web are vanishing. What does that do to our culture?
https://www.theverge.com/24321569/internet-decay-link-rot-web-archive-deleted-culture
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Sabrina Imbler
about 1 year ago
I absolutely love chatting with Angelina about writing, wonder, disgust, channeling the voice of a frog and why it's okay to publish essays when you're 20 😌
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Truuuuly a privilege to interview Sabrina Imbler (
@sabs.bsky.social
) about their creative practice for
@thecreativeindependent.com
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On not waiting to release your best work
Writer and science journalist Sabrina Imbler discusses having empathy for non-human creatures, working at employee-owned media site Defector, and the meditative power of trash TV.
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/writer-and-science-journalist-sabrina-imbler-on-not-waiting-to-release-your-best-work/
about 1 year ago
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Lauren Theisen
about 1 year ago
I think Defector is able to say obvious things more straightforwardly than anyone else, and this is me trying to do that.
defector.com/the-purpose-...
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The Purpose Of A Bathroom Law | Defector
Current Delaware state senator Sarah McBride was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat earlier this month, replacing Lisa Blunt Rochester, who moved to the Senate to replace the r...
https://defector.com/the-purpose-of-a-bathroom-law
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Sara Hashemi
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Read my story!
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Listen to Angelina’s amazing segment below!!
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I produced a story for All the Best radio! It’s about how queer and trans folks in NYC are finding connection and respite in spaces that once excluded them. Listen to “Out Here” on Apple Podcasts/wherever you listen to podcasts 🌱🌈
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
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out hear
Podcast Episode · All The Best · 11/26/2024 · 30m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-best/id369688745?i=1000678241472
about 1 year ago
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ilana kaplan
about 1 year ago
just what i wanted to do...build another social media following
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