Reel Talks with Alissa Wilkinson

Talks on movies, the culture of cinema, and filmmaking.

Alissa Wilkinson, We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine

Hosted by Scott Adlerberg, film connoisseur

Alissa Wilkinson is a film critic at The New York Times and was formerly a senior correspondent and critic at Vox. Her previous book, Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women, was published in 2022. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Gavin Edwards is the New York Times–bestselling author of fourteen books, including biographies of Bill Murray, Samuel L. Jackson, and Fred Rogers. He has also written for numerous magazines and newspapers—most frequently, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, and Details. The first Marvel comic book he ever read was X-Men Annual #4, where the mutants visit Dante’s Inferno. In the name of journalism, he has hiked the Great Wall of China, entered a demolition derby, and participated in the world’s largest tomato fight. He can be found with his family in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Scott Adlerberg is the author of the novels Spiders and Flies, Jungle Horses, Graveyard Love, Jack Waters, and The Screaming Child. He has written many short stories and contributes pieces regularly to sites such as CrimeReads, Mystery Tribune, and Criminal Element.  Every summer, he hosts the Reel Talks film commentary series in Bryant Park in Manhattan.  He was born in New York City and lives in Brooklyn.