Carrie Courogen (hello again) has been a New York-based writer, editor, strategist, and director for more than 15 years. She is an associate editor at Bright Wall/Dark Room and writes a Substack called bed crumbs. Previously, she spent nearly a decade at Condé Nast. Most recently, as an associate director of creative development across digital video, she led the relaunch of Pitchfork’s video programming in addition to special projects at Vanity Fair and Tatler, and was a proud union steward. Her critically acclaimed biography of Elaine May for St. Martin’s Press is out now. She has some screenplays, too, that you can read but only if you ask nicely. Robert Plant once told her “There are a lot of weirdo journalists out there, but you’re not one of them,” and he was probably just saying it to be polite, but let’s all pretend he meant it for real. She thinks having to write about herself in the third person like this is demented, but is being brave and doing it anyway.

Her writing often focuses on the intersection of class, feminism, and pop culture, as well as the nature of performance versus truth—if you’re into buzzwords, that is, otherwise she mostly feels like this screengrab of Diane Keaton in Reds—and has been featured in print and online all over the place, from PAPER Magazine to Pitchfork, Vanity Fair to Vice, and many more. The full outlet list, at this point, is too chaotic to type in a braggy but nonetheless brief graf like this, so you can just view the full archive of her writing samples.

For book-related questions, she is represented by Nicki Richesin at Dunow, Carlson & Lerner and Josie Freedman at CAA.

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