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Rebecca Ackermann
The Changeling
Brings a Genre-Bending Fable of Family to the Screen
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By
Rebecca Ackermann
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The Existential Impossibilities of Parenting, in Fiction and Life
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By
Rebecca Ackermann
| August 28, 2023
On
Fleishman Is in Trouble
and the
Sex and the City
Problem
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By
Rebecca Ackermann
| February 22, 2023
Funny, Fearless, and Unafraid to Fail: Finding Creative Inspiration in Comedy Podcasts
Rebecca Ackermann on Learning to Write to a Soundtrack of Riffing Comedians
By
Rebecca Ackermann
| November 10, 2022
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