Masha Tupitsyn is the author of Beauty Talk & Monsters, a collection of film-based stories (Semiotext(e) Press, 2007) and co-editor of the anthology Life As We Show It: Writing on Film (City Lights, 2009). She is currently working on a new book about John Cusack and the politics of acting, Star Notes as well as a collection of essays on film, Screen to Screen. She also writes daily film criticism on Twitter using only 140 characters. Her fiction and criticism has appeared or is forthcoming in Venus Magazine, Animal Shelter, Fanzine, Creative Aggression, the anthologies Wreckage of Reason: XXperimental Women Writers Writing in the 21st Century and the Encyclopedia Project Volume II, F-K (Encyclomedia Press, 2009), Make/Shift, Bookforum, Fence, Five Fingers Review, and San Francisco’s KQED’s The Writer’s Block.