Erin Rose O'Brien

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Erin Rose O'Brien is a screenwriter based in New York.

AF 2019 IN REVIEWStef Chura Explores New Perspectives on Midnight

Stef Chura photo by Danielle Dabney. The year's end is ripe for self-reflection, and the decade’s end, even more. It is easy to get inside your head; to obsess over the past and the things that may have been different had you kissed that person, taken that job, gone home just a little earlier that...

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2010s IN REVIEWComing of Age With Car Seat Headrest

I graduated high school in 2010, which means I have been an adult for the entirety of the decade, according to “society.” I spent six of those months in high school, three and a half of those years in college, four of them working at an office job that I thought I’d never leave, and the past year...

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AF 2018 IN REVIEWHow Mitski Used Performance to Make One of the Year's Best Records

But Mitski does not want to be remembered this...

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ONLY NOISELaughing at the Apocalypse with R.E.M.

ONLY NOISE explores music fandom with poignant personal essays that examine the ways we’re shaped by our chosen soundtrack. This week, Erin Rose O'Brien pays tribute to a silly song about the end of the world that helped her conquer apocalyptic anxiety and post-9/11 panic. 1. Exactly zero karaoke...

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