“Area Loser Wants Job” The longest-serving editor of The Onion on how a group of “unemployable” twentysomethings created America’s foremost satirical publication
Everybody Loves Emily in Paris Darren Star, the mastermind behind the hit Netflix show, reveals how he writes about women, won over the French—and what Emily could do next
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