Below is Gwydion Suilebhan’s media diary for 2020.
Read: Fiction
- Chloe Arijdis, Sea Monsters
- Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half
- Matt Fraction, Sex Criminals, Volume One
- Julie Langsdorf, White Elephant
- Yiyun Li, Where Reasons End
- Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
- Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
- Peter Rock, The Night Swimmers
- Maurice Carlos Ruffin, We Cast a Shadow
- Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
- Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys
Read: Non-Fiction
- P. Carl, Becoming a Man
- Lawrence J. Epstein, The Haunted Smile
- Drew Friedman, Old Jewish Comedians
- Drew Friedman, More Old Jewish Comedians
- Moss Hart, Act One
- Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
- Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club
- Jerry Seinfeld, Is This Anything?
- Eric Weiner, The Socrates Express
Read: Plays
- Zakiyyah Alexander, Sweet Maladies
- Kaaron Briscoe, Tallahassee
- Olivia Lilley, Diary of an Erotic Life
- Claudia Rankine, The White Card
- Gwydion Suilebhan, Cracked
Read: Poetry
- Margaret Atwood, The Door
- Robert Bly, This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years
- Reginald Dwayne Betts, Bastards of the Reagan Era
- Seamus Heaney, Seeing Things
Watched: Comedy
- Hannah Gadsby, Douglas
- Jim Gaffigan, Noble Ape
- Ilana Glazer, The Planet Is Burning
- Chelsea Handler, Evolution
- Wendy Liebman, Taller on TV
- Sarah Silverman, A Speck of Dust
Watched: Documentaries
- Disclosure
- The Last Dance
- Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
- Monty Python: Almost the Truth
- Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
- Tiger King
Watched: Movies
- 1917
- Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
- Airplane
- The Avengers
- Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Avengers: Endgame
- Avengers: Infinity War
- A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
- Billy Elliot
- Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
- Black Panther
- Bombshell
- Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
- Brooklyn
- Call of the Wild
- Contact
- Da 5 Bloods
- Die Hard
- Enola Holmes
- Extraction
- Ford V. Ferrari
- Gentleman’s Agreement
- Groundhog Day
- The Italian Job (2003)
- Jojo Rabbit
- Justice League
- The King of Staten Island
- Knives Out
- The Last Laugh
- Little Shop of Horrors
- Little Women
- Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
- The Midnight Sky
- Mission: Impossible
- Mission: Impossible II
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Motherless Brooklyn
- National Treasure
- National Treasure: Book of Secrets
- The Old Guard
- Parasite
- The Parent Trap (1961)
- The Pink Panther (2006)
- The Princess Bride
- Roman J. Israel, Esq.
- Stand by Me
- Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
- Terminator: Dark Fate
- Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
- The Trial of the Chicago 7
- Troop Zero
- The Two Popes
- Uncle Frank
- Uncut Gems
- White Christmas
- Wonder Woman 1984
- X2
- X-Men
- X-Men: Days of Future Past
Watched: Plays
- The Amateurs, Jordan Harrison
- Grand Horizons, Bess Wohl
- The Inheritance, Parts 1 and 2, Matthew Lopez
- My Name Is Lucy Barton, Rona Munro
- Perfect Arrangement, Topher Payne
- Sheltered, Alix Sobler
- The Sound Inside, Adam Rapp
Watched: Reality Television
- Crazy Delicious
- Floor Is Lava
- The Great British Baking Show, season 11
- Great British Baking Show Holidays, seasons 2 and 3
- My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, season 3
- Queer Eye, season 5
- Tiny House Nation, season 2
Watched: Television
- After Life, seasons 1 and 2
- Agatha Christie’s The Pale Horse
- Arrow, season 8
- The Boys, season 2
- Call the Midwife, seasons 8 and 9
- Criminal Minds, season 15
- Dead to Me, season 2
- The Expanse, season 5
- Flash, season 6
- The Good Place, season 4 (twice)
- Grey’s Anatomy, season 16
- Hunters, season 1
- Halt and Catch Fire, seasons 1, 2, and 3
- Killing Eve, seasons 1, 2, and 3
- The Kominsky Method, seasons 1 and 2
- Legends of Tomorrow, season 5
- Little Fires Everywhere
- Lost in Space, season 2
- The Mandalorian, season 2
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, season 3
- Modern Family, season 11
- Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., season 7
- Modern Love, season 1
- Mrs. America
- Ozark, season 3
- Perry Mason, season 1
- The Queen’s Gambit
- Schitt’s Creek, seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 (x2)
- Shameless, season 10
- Star Trek: Picard, season 1
- Succession, seasons 1 and 2
- Supergirl, season 5
- The Umbrella Academy, season 2
- Unorthodox
- Will & Grace, season 11
- You, seasons 1 and 2