Turn your love for music, movies, TV into a career: An Evening with Critics

Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris

A Pulitzer prize-winning critic, a magazine writer and a music and TV critic will talk about their work, careers, and their love of popular culture during a panel event, Monday, Nov. 9, 7:30 p.m., in the Stetson Room, second floor of the Carlton Union Building, 131 E. Minnesota Ave., DeLand. From The Real Housewives, to Miranda Lambert, race in Hollywood, to the appeal of teen dramas, we’ll talk about it all.

The panelists include three expert writers. Wesley Morris, who was just hired by The New York Times as critic-at-large from Grantland, and won the Pulitzer for film criticism in 2012, spent four years writing for Grantland, mostly about movies. He’s now a critic-at-large for The New York Times. For 10 years, he did film reviews at The Boston Globe, where, in 2012, he won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism.

Sarah Rodman
Sarah Rodman

Sarah Rodman covers television and popular music for the Living/Arts Section of The Boston Globe. She joined the staff in May of 2006 after spending six years as a columnist covering pop music and entertainment for The Boston Herald.

Damian Holbrook, a senior writer for TV Guide Magazine and TV Insider, frequently moderates panels at Comic-Cons and appears on television. He has been elected to the board of the Television Critics Association, moderates panels at The Paley Center for Media and Comic-Cons on both coasts, in addition to appearing on Chelsea Lately, several TV Guide Network specials, and for one shining second, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. When not penning cover stories about superheroes or tricky teens, Holbrook spends his free time teaching his rescue chihuahua Bud how to tell all of the Real Housewives apart.

Damian Holbrook
Damian Holbrook

The panel will be moderated by Andy Dehnart, director of the Stetson journalism program and is a writer and TV critic who also publishes reality blurred.

The event, which is free and open to the public, is presented by the Stetson University Journalism program and sponsored by the Artists and Lecturers Series, with additional support from the Sullivan Creative Writing Program. This is a cultural credit event for Stetson undergraduate students.

For more information about this event, or Stetson University’s Sullivan Creative Writing Program, contact Dehnart, at [email protected], 386-822-7526, or visit Stetson’s Department of Communication and Media Studies.