Commonplace Book
by Alissa Wilkinsonin 🎭️ Culture
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Commonplace Book
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Things I picked up along the way. Written by Alissa Wilkinson.
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About Alissa Wilkinson
I’m a movie critic at the New York Times, and author of "We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine" (paperback out 6/23!!) and "Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women" (2022).
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