Danny Gottleib

Death By Consumption 4/22/25 - 4/28/25 Look, some weeks I'm very timely with my cultural experiences, and other weeks it's a mishmash of 90s Spanish sexual melodramas and 50s Swedish art films. But that's the agony and the ecstasy of

Death By Consumption 4/15/25 - 4/21/25 (Last week's email was accidentally labeled #50, but it was actually #49. I just love round numbers, and I'm very impatient! Someday, perhaps, I will have an editor.) Ladies, how have you enjoyed the first week

Death By Consumption 4/8/25 - 4/14/25 Did you love paying your taxes today??? I have a visceral memory of being outraged during the Bush era that my taxes were going towards racist government torture prisons, an anger that was only somewhat lessened by the knowledge that

Death By Consumption 4/1/25 - 4/7/25 I do not expect any sympathy for this, but due to the nightmare that is air travel in this country, I arrived from LA past 2am last night, so this email is coming to you from a delirious haze. I

Death By Consumption 3/25/25 - 3/31/25 My Cali journey has unexpectedly continued into a second week, as I had to last-minute cancel a planned weekend in Montreal and instead stuck around in San Diego, where I enjoyed the classic California experience of feeling like shit in

Death by Consumption 3/18/25 - 3/24/25 Hello from San Diego, where I’m spending the week visiting family, having one of those things called a “beach vacation,” where things like writing and thinking and having opinions go to die. So who knows what’s going to

Death By Consumption 3/11/25 - 3/17/25 I don't think we should be allowed to have such beautiful weather when such horrible shit is happening all the time. It's real "Springtime for Hitler" vibes right now. Walking around the city, feeling

Death By Consumption 3/4/25 - 3/10/25 Not to take it to a place of Covid right off the bat, but today marks, insanely, 5 years since it was declared a pandemic. Doesn't that feel like much longer ago? Surely five years isn't

Death By Consumption 2/25/25 - 3/3/25 I did it. In the nick of time, I finally watched Emilia Pérez, a grueling process that literally took me three days. I started it on Saturday but felt so overwhelmed that, 30 minutes in, I had to turn it

Death By Consumption 2/18/25 - 2/24/25 Forgive me for sounding like your most boring coworker but: how are we already two months into the year? I guess time really flies when a plane crashes every day. This week, I really spent a lot of time grappling