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Andrew Marzoni @andrewmarzoni.bsky.social · 22d

As #NYFF63 opens tonight, now is as good a time as any to revisit my @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social round-up of last year’s slate. nyra.nyc/articles/fol...

Folie à Doom

Phillips’s musical sequel to his haggardly wrought early Scorsese pastiche more aptly encompasses the existential malaise of NYFF62 than the proudest members of its main slate.

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Michael H. Weber @mhweber.bsky.social · 29d

Service by John Tottenham from @semiotexte.bsky.social. It’s extraordinary, but don’t take my word for it… bsky.app/profile/andr...

Andrew Marzoni @andrewmarzoni.bsky.social · May 14

I reviewed John Tottenham’s excellent debut novel for @washingtonpost.com. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Review | A novel of the great Gen X icon: The misanthropic retail employee

In “Service” by John Tottenham, a bookstore clerk struggles to write a novel that sounds a lot like “Service” by John Tottenham.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Andrew Marzoni @andrewmarzoni.bsky.social · Aug 2

Happy 101st to James Baldwin. I wrote this for @readliberties.bsky.social on the occasion of his centennial. libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

Freelance Blues: James Baldwin in the Magazines

Among the many grievances aired by Norman Podhoretz in his insufferable 1967 memoir Making It is an already septic grudge concerning The New Yorker’s publication of James Baldwin’s most famous essay i...

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Andrew Marzoni @andrewmarzoni.bsky.social · Aug 1

Today is #bandcampfriday and some of you haven’t heard Deposition yet. pizzaguy.bandcamp.com/album/deposi...

Deposition, by Pizza Guy

8 track album

pizzaguy.bandcamp.com

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Andrew Marzoni @andrewmarzoni.bsky.social · Jun 28

Once more for the weekend crowd.

Andrew Marzoni @andrewmarzoni.bsky.social · Jun 24

For @thenation.com, I wrote about J. Hoberman’s New York. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

J. Hoberman’s Lost New York

In Everything Is Now, the veteran film critic looks back at the downtown art scene of the 1960s.

www.thenation.com

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Andrew Marzoni @andrewmarzoni.bsky.social · Jun 27

Extremely proud of my students Gabby and Gabriel, who won the New York Public Library’s James Baldwin Teen Creative Contest and got to meet his nephew Trevor.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · Jun 24

www.thenation.com/article/cult...
"Everything Is Now feels like the culmination of a life’s work, the New York book that Hoberman was born to write." As the child of a lifelong city worker & a Brooklyn College educated social worker, I can say that's true.

J. Hoberman’s Lost New York

In Everything Is Now, the veteran film critic looks back at the downtown art scene of the 1960s.

www.thenation.com

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Andrew Marzoni @andrewmarzoni.bsky.social · Jun 24

For @thenation.com, I wrote about J. Hoberman’s New York. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

J. Hoberman’s Lost New York

In Everything Is Now, the veteran film critic looks back at the downtown art scene of the 1960s.

www.thenation.com

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Andrew Marzoni @andrewmarzoni.bsky.social · Jun 24

For @thenation.com, I wrote about J. Hoberman’s New York. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

J. Hoberman’s Lost New York

In Everything Is Now, the veteran film critic looks back at the downtown art scene of the 1960s.

www.thenation.com

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Andrew Marzoni @andrewmarzoni.bsky.social · May 31

Thanks for coming to the first and hopefully not last sold-out Pizza Guy show @versobooks.bsky.social.

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · May 31

BOTD Rainer Fassbinder!! MCCT5 5)Lola 4)Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 3)Chinese Roulette 2)Veronica Voss 1)Bitter Tears of PvK
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@daveyjenkins.bsky.social: lwlies.com/articles/rai...
@dwhdaily.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post...
@andrewmarzoni.bsky.social: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

The Indulgences of Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Ian Penman’s study of the German filmmaker’s work elucidates his “cocaine communism”—an aesthetics and politics of revolution and pleasure.

www.thenation.com

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Andrew Marzoni @andrewmarzoni.bsky.social · May 30

It’s Deposition Day @versobooks.bsky.social, and Pizza Guy is debuting a six-piece band. Doors @ 7:30, show @ 8. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/d...

Deposition album release

In celebration of their sophomore LP, Deposition, Brooklyn duo Pizza Guy will perform the album live in the Verso office. Featuring Andrew Marzoni (vocals, keyboards, guitars), M. H. Miller (vocals &a...

www.versobooks.com

Andrew Marzoni @andrewmarzoni.bsky.social · May 29

Tomorrow @ 8!

Andrew Marzoni @andrewmarzoni.bsky.social · May 14

“Slowcore show at the @versobooks.bsky.social office” sounds like the title of a song I would write, but it’s also a very real thing happening on May 30. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/d...

Deposition album release

In celebration of their sophomore LP, Deposition, Brooklyn duo Pizza Guy will perform the album live in the Verso office. Featuring Andrew Marzoni (vocals, keyboards, guitars), M. H. Miller (vocals &a...

www.versobooks.com

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bobbygw @bobbygw.bsky.social · Apr 4

#booksky for #booklovers of #essays and #nonfiction 📚💙

A classic appreciation of James Baldwin, and a superb, original, and insightful intellectual essay: Freelance Blues — James Baldwin in the Magazines. By Andrew Marzoni

libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

Novelist and essayist James Baldwin. Credit: Ted Thai—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

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readliberties.bsky.social @readliberties.bsky.social · Apr 2

libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
"Without a robust vanguard of publishers, editors, writers, and readers fighting to persist with Baldwin's long overdue critique, the fire will go out before it can spread."

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Andrew Marzoni @andrewmarzoni.bsky.social · May 25

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Andrew Marzoni @andrewmarzoni.bsky.social · May 14

“Slowcore show at the @versobooks.bsky.social office” sounds like the title of a song I would write, but it’s also a very real thing happening on May 30. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/d...

Deposition album release

In celebration of their sophomore LP, Deposition, Brooklyn duo Pizza Guy will perform the album live in the Verso office. Featuring Andrew Marzoni (vocals, keyboards, guitars), M. H. Miller (vocals &a...

www.versobooks.com

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Andrew Marzoni @andrewmarzoni.bsky.social · May 14

I reviewed John Tottenham’s excellent debut novel for @washingtonpost.com. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Review | A novel of the great Gen X icon: The misanthropic retail employee

In “Service” by John Tottenham, a bookstore clerk struggles to write a novel that sounds a lot like “Service” by John Tottenham.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Andrew Marzoni @andrewmarzoni.bsky.social · May 14

“Slowcore show at the @versobooks.bsky.social office” sounds like the title of a song I would write, but it’s also a very real thing happening on May 30. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/d...

Deposition album release

In celebration of their sophomore LP, Deposition, Brooklyn duo Pizza Guy will perform the album live in the Verso office. Featuring Andrew Marzoni (vocals, keyboards, guitars), M. H. Miller (vocals &a...

www.versobooks.com