(‘15) hails from Cotati, California and has a compulsive obsession with all things film, politics, and creative writing. Her favorite pastimes include overanalyzing screenplays while watching TV, hiking, and running illegally through other people’s property.
While caught up in the swirl of self-indulgent literary debate about the merits and demerits of “smarm”— a derogatory term for the conscious decision among many critics to “be nice” in their reviews— I came across something tangentially related and much more interesting.