Your Number One Fan: Misery and the Progenitor of Parasocial Relationships

|Courtney Kowalke| On September 24, 2018, a post on the celebrity gossip website Oh No They Didn’t changed my life. As reported by LiveJournal user tevhenna, daytime talk show host Kelly Ripa commented on her husband actor Mark Consuelos’s Instagram (a post which has since been deleted). Not a… Continue reading

Thief: That One Last Job and the American Dream

|Sophie Durbin| “Frank unfolds his wallet to place the letter inside. A tattered paste-up collage is there, too. He opens it. There’s a white house from a magazine. A cut-out Cadillac is glued in front. Bits and pieces of trees are drawn in with green Pentel. A small baby from a Gerber food ad… Continue reading