Abraham Riesman

New York magazine

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Editor at New York magazine, where he writes about various things and create online videos of various kinds for the magazine and its various blogs. He also occasionally take photos for them.

In the past, he has done writing, video, and audio for a bunch of other media outlets: The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The New Republic, Vice, WNYC, NY1, The New York Sun, and WBAI, to name a few.

Abraham graduated from Harvard in 2008 and lived in New York City since then. But he was born and raised in Oak Park, IL and lived in Seoul for a while (he was working on myundergraduate thesis, which was about nationalism at a South Korean high school).

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The world of fanfiction climbed to new heights this year with the film release of Fifty Shades of Grey , which has pulled nearly $162 million at the domestic box office.

The Wide World of Fanfiction

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One of the movies we talked about in today’s film segment is Focus, starring Margot Robbie. Well, her star is on the rise.

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