Karl Taro Greenfeld
@karltaro.bsky.social
Television writer, novelist and bad journalist
Comic short story in Alta -
Karl Taro Greenfeld: How to Survive a Crumbling TV Industry
Vanishing showrunners, gaping plot holes, and the small, essential solaces of the craft services breakfast sandwich—a veteran TV writer attempts to survive in this fictionalized tale of a crumbling in...
www.altaonline.com
October 6, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Comic short story in Alta -
Reposted by Karl Taro Greenfeld
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Even if the Paramount deal shrinks the industry further, great movies and television shows will continue to be made,” Karl Taro Greenfeld writes. “Though they may not be made in the United States. Or by humans.”
“Even if the Paramount deal shrinks the industry further, great movies and television shows will continue to be made,” Karl Taro Greenfeld writes. “Though they may not be made in the United States. Or by humans.”
Opinion | I’m a Screenwriter. Hollywood Is in Trouble.
A scriptwriter’s lament about Hollywood’s decline
nyti.ms
July 20, 2026 at 11:30 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Even if the Paramount deal shrinks the industry further, great movies and television shows will continue to be made,” Karl Taro Greenfeld writes. “Though they may not be made in the United States. Or by humans.”
“Even if the Paramount deal shrinks the industry further, great movies and television shows will continue to be made,” Karl Taro Greenfeld writes. “Though they may not be made in the United States. Or by humans.”
I wrote this casual for NYT: Downwardly Mobile in Hollywood www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/o...
Opinion | I’m a Screenwriter. Hollywood Is in Trouble.
A scriptwriter’s lament about Hollywood’s decline
www.nytimes.com
July 22, 2026 at 4:39 PM
I wrote this casual for NYT: Downwardly Mobile in Hollywood www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/o...
The venerable Roads&Kingdoms is back with a print issue. I contributed an essay about the fire and fleeing America. I think it’s among my strongest essays.
Roads & Kingdoms, Issue 1
Included with Conspirator and Fellow Traveler memberships Our annual print magazine includes 144 pages of arresting visuals and in-depth storytelling from writers, artists, and photographers around th...
roadsandkingdoms.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The venerable Roads&Kingdoms is back with a print issue. I contributed an essay about the fire and fleeing America. I think it’s among my strongest essays.
Do Not Obey in Advance
September 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Do Not Obey in Advance
Reposted by Karl Taro Greenfeld
This is excellent and painfully necessary & says a lot more than its headline suggests - so it’s well worth reading it through.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-believ...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-believ...
ICE believes it will never face accountability again
The Trump administration is letting an unaccountable secret police form at the heart of our democracy.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
June 20, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This is excellent and painfully necessary & says a lot more than its headline suggests - so it’s well worth reading it through.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-believ...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-believ...
Musk must be delighted they are defacing and vandalizing Waymos instead of Teslas
June 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Musk must be delighted they are defacing and vandalizing Waymos instead of Teslas
How does the NYT do a story about James Frey w/out mentioning his 20 year career as a TV writer and producer? Presumably that’s how he’s made a living. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/s...
Oprah Shamed Him. He’s Back Anyway.
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 10:16 AM
How does the NYT do a story about James Frey w/out mentioning his 20 year career as a TV writer and producer? Presumably that’s how he’s made a living. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/s...
It’s a Home Depot, not a Reichstag, but you see where he is going with this.
June 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
It’s a Home Depot, not a Reichstag, but you see where he is going with this.
Reposted by Karl Taro Greenfeld
On Ibiza, by @karltaro.bsky.social for Roads and Kingdoms, from 2015:
The Island of No Regrets
In the limitless, drug-fuelled summer before the publication of his first book, the young writer Karl Taro Greenfeld buries looming disappointments with Europe’s drifters in Ibiza.
roadsandkingdoms.com
May 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
On Ibiza, by @karltaro.bsky.social for Roads and Kingdoms, from 2015:
I wrote what we used to call a “casual” in The Atlantic
Why I’m Leaving Pacific Palisades
My family survived the fire. We want to rebuild. But another, greater conflagration has enveloped us.
www.theatlantic.com
May 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I wrote what we used to call a “casual” in The Atlantic