
Casey Karaman
Casey Karaman is a writer, performer, improviser, and teacher who has worked with the Washington Improv Theater. He has performed in multiple theater productions, most recently in Second City’s production of Love Factually at the Kennedy Center. He lives in Los Angeles.

New year’s resolutions for the right wing
Reading Time: 3 minutes As another year ends, we all seek to learn from past…

The five Christmas films you meet in hell
Reading Time: 15 minutes How can one properly make a list of bad Christmas films? Is it even possible? When I…

Which is which: Rilke’s ‘Letters to a Young Poet’ or my own rejection letters?
Reading Time: 3 minutes In 1905, Franz Xaver Kappus wrote to the famous German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, asking him to look…

This year’s ‘greatest’ greatest films list shakes up the canon
Reading Time: 5 minutes Everyone has a greatest films list. Roger Ebert. AFI. If you have a Letterboxd account, you probably…

Your $5 donation is the only thing that can save democracy
Reading Time: 2 minutes Dear Casey, Our situation is even more dire than when I sent a similar email yesterday. The…

12 ways to tell that you’re about to have a terrible Thanksgiving
Reading Time: 2 minutes For some of us, the holiday approaches with fond memories and a loving family. For everyone else,…

Elon Musk now owns my local lemonade stand. And he’s destroying it.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Hi. My name is Lucy. I’m 10. Me and my best friend Miranda opened up a lemonade…

The five shows your parents watch
Reading Time: 7 minutes As of this writing, season 4 of Manifest is the top-rated English language TV show in the world. At…

White Lotus Season 2 premiere: Parasite as farce
Reading Time: 4 minutes How do we tackle class in entertainment? Wealth inequality within the US has grown out of control…

Oops! Everything you love funds a cult!
Reading Time: 3 minutes As it turns out, quite a few businesses just happen to funnel your money from innocuous purchases…
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