Carina Chocano
Carina Chocano is an American journalist, cultural critic, and author. She has worked as a film and television critic for Entertainment Weekly, Salon, and the Los Angeles Times, and as a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine.[1] Her essay collection You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and was a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.[1][2]
Early life
[edit]Chocano was born in Chicago to Peruvian parents. During her childhood, her family lived in Chicago, New York, São Paulo, and Madrid.[3]
Career
[edit]Chocano was a film and television critic at Entertainment Weekly and Salon before working as a film critic for the Los Angeles Times.[1][4] She later became a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine. Her writing has also appeared in publications including New York, Elle, Vogue, Rolling Stone, Wired, and The New Yorker.[1]
You Play the Girl
[edit]Chocano's 2017 book You Play the Girl is a collection of essays combining memoir and cultural criticism. It examines gender roles and representations of women in film, television, literature, and popular culture.[1][5] In an interview with Brooklyn Magazine, Chocano described drawing on feminist writing, philosophy, news, criticism, and personal experience in the collection.[6]
In March 2018, the National Book Critics Circle awarded You Play the Girl its award for criticism.[1] The book was also one of five finalists for the 2018 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.[2]
Bibliography
[edit]- You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017) ISBN 978-0-544-64896-8
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Tuttle, Kate (March 15, 2018). "National Book Critics Circle Announces Winners for 2017 Awards". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved September 10, 2026.
- 1 2 "The 2018 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists". PEN America. January 25, 2018. Retrieved September 10, 2026.
- ↑ Chocano, Carina (August 19, 2020). "Recapturing Home on Annual Family Trips to Lima". Condé Nast Traveler. Retrieved September 10, 2026.
- ↑ "Carina Chocano, Film Critic". Los Angeles Times. May 8, 2006. Retrieved September 10, 2026.
- ↑ Karbo, Karen (February 18, 2018). "Playing the Girl: Ten False Starts (After Janet Malcolm)". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved September 10, 2026.
- ↑ "Interview with 2018 NBCC Criticism Award Finalist Carina Chocano". Brooklyn Magazine. March 7, 2018. Retrieved September 10, 2026.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Carina Chocano at The New York Times
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