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About

Sheerly Avni, Contributor

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Sheerly Avni is a San Francisco based film and culture writer. A former editor of Salon.com,  her work also has appeared in The Chicago Sun-Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Toronto Star, San Francisco Magazine, AlterNet, and of course, Truthdig.  Her book about Northern California film directors, “Cinema by the Bay,” will be available in June.

She is also a workshop facilitator and editor at The Beat Within, a weekly publication by and for incarcerated youth.




Truthdig Columns

2013

04/29 Ripped From Tomorrow’s Headlines: Brian Wood, Comic Book Futurist

03/23 The Chilean Mad Men of ‘No’

2011

05/05 Enemies: A Love Story

2010

10/22 Stephen Elliott: The Art of the Overshare

2008

12/28 Tragedy Repeats Itself

11/26 Get Milk

2007

07/03 It’s the Ecstasy, Stupid

06/11 ‘Don?t Stop ? ’ —David Chase?s Maddening ‘Sopranos’ Finale

01/09 ‘Children of Men’: Universal’s Orphaned Masterpiece

2006

12/07 Blood Diamonds Are Forever

08/19 The City That Care Forgot: Spike Lee and the ‘New’ New Orleans Blues

06/23 Convenient Omissions on the Road to Guantanamo

04/06 Nicole Holofcener: The Truthdig Interview

04/03 David Muhammad: The Truthdig Interview

04/03 David Muhammad: The Truthdig Interview

03/14 Norman Lear: ‘Bring Them to Their Knees’

03/09 FX Plays the Race Card

03/08 ‘This Place Is Broken’: The Gore Vidal Interview Part II

03/07 ‘This Place Is Broken’

03/06 Oscars Postmortem

03/03 Gore Vidal on The Academy Awards, Sexuality and Politics

03/03 Gore Vidal on ‘Capote,’ ‘Brokeback Mountain’—and Why ‘Match Point’ Is the Best Picture of 2005

03/03 Gore Vidal on ‘Capote,’ ‘Brokeback Mountain’—and Why ‘Match Point’ Is the Best Picture of 2005

02/28 Pity the Fool

02/28 David Thomson on the Oscar Best-Film Candidates: Worthy, but Not Great

02/04 Border Justice: ‘The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada’

01/17 Fear Factor: Jack Bauer is Back

01/12 The Bestselling Fake True Story

01/08 Allen’s Auteur Dilemma

2005

12/29 But Is It Good for the Jews?

12/14 Bad Faith in the Land of Narnia

12/09 Love and Loss on Brokeback Mountain

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