My first piece of short fiction is up now on The Yale Review. It was inspired by America's aggrieved white people. I hope you'll read it!
Cord Jefferson
@cordjefferson
Cord Jefferson’s Tweets
I'm very excited to be publishing my first piece of short fiction in the Yale Review next month. You can subscribe below.
Quote Tweet
Our Spring 2022 issue arrives soon! Featuring a folio edited by Eula Biss on the dilemmas and anxieties of ownership. With work from @aminattaforna, @tiphanieyanique, @aishasabslo, and much more.
Subscribe now: bit.ly/3B8Biob
Show this thread
6
6
172
Doing a live event in LA next week with Percival Everett. Come see him. He's a genius.
3
9
104
The "Station Eleven" episode I wrote is out today. Lucy Tcherniak directed it beautifully and the cast is great in it. If you've been put off by the idea of watching something about a pandemic, I promise you it's a show about more than that. Hope you like it.
70
91
1,659
Added some choons to the "Songs That Sound Like Xmas Music But Aren't Actually" playlist this year, including a not great but nonetheless very charming rendition of "Stand by Me" by Muhammad Ali. open.spotify.com/playlist/17AOZ
1
2
25
I appreciate being given room on this podcast to vent about how the tech bro ethos of "growth at all costs" and the worship of algorithms is mutilating creative industries so I can stop wrecking dinner parties with my ranting.
Quote Tweet
Get ready to hide under a napkin with a fried songbird while shouting “fuck off” in a thick Scottish accent, cuz it’s our @Succession ep w/@cordjefferson!
We go deep on media, Hollywood and a creative economy increasingly governed by RoyCo-esque monoliths theculturejournalist.substack.com/p/succession-c
3
10
123
Topics to follow
Sign up to get Tweets about the Topics you follow in your Home timeline.
Carousel
We live in such stupid times that viral joke tweets are accidentally exactly right about how the world works.
Quote Tweet
colleges just be making up the cost of tuition, in the admissions office like "raise it to 60 thousand see if they still pay lol"
Show this thread
13
524
2,781
My friend AJ Daulerio has a new recovery podcast called "Really Good Shares" and he had me on to talk about trying to be a good man and the only Bob Dylan song I can stand. Hope you like it.
1
1
35
Writers' Assistants and Script Coordinators are essential to the work of making TV and it's shameful that they're paid like this in an industry so full of money. They're negotiating with the for a living wage right now and I support them fully. #IALivingWage
Quote Tweet
.@IATSE believes that no union member should make less than a living wage, but currently four 871 crafts' (Writers Assistants/Script Coordinators/APOCs/Art Dept. Coordinators) base rates FOR A 52 WEEK YEAR fall below the LA Dept. of Housing's low income threshold.
Show this thread
1
9
106
I had a very small hand in this. It's a great, sad, confusing, nuanced story about how one man attempted to navigate racism in America. And in episode three you can hear me absolutely BUTCHER the Portuguese language.
Quote Tweet
My new series is out today. Thank you @jamifloyd @KieseLaymon @imaniperry @mcknight3000 @cordjefferson and @JadAbumrad! Listen on @Radiolab. Happy 100th anniversary to black swan records
0:59
13.8K views
2
9
102
Birds rocking out to sleaford mods tho
Quote Tweet
Extremely into this video of Iggy Pop playing a song for his bird while wearing a shirt of that same bird
0:59
3.7M views
2
2
56
Thanks to Candice Frederick and HuffPo for this very thoughtful piece. I now want to title something Persistent Anger.
11
41
398
I hope if you submitted an application and didn't get the fellowship this time around that you'll not be discouraged. This industry needs new blood and that's not going to change overnight. Please keep writing and applying. I'll be rooting for you all from afar.
2
3
91
Show this thread
I can't thank people enough for applying. Putting yourself up for something with the possibility of not getting that thing always takes bravery, but especially after the year we've all had.
1
1
98
Show this thread
We got nearly 750 incredible applications, so many that we decided to add a third fellow. I wish I had the resources to help everyone who was interested, but hopefully this is just the beginning of a program that will live a long and healthy life.
3
2
145
Show this thread
In January, I launched the Susan M. Haas Fellowship in an effort to help unemployed/underemployed journalists break into television. Today, I'm wildly excited to announce the 2021 Haas Fellows.
27
139
1,424
Show this thread
Felt honored to chat with , whose work I really love. We talked about Gawker and our favorite show (Mad Men) and tech billionaires owning everything and why highlighting black people in my work is so important to me. Hope you enjoy it.
Quote Tweet
Ignore my nervous, self-conscious laughter and just listen to all the smart things @cordjefferson has to say! twitter.com/voxdotcom/stat…
3
11
126
There's still time to apply for the Susan M. Haas fellowship! Deadline is Sunday at midnight Pacific. Don't be shy:
3
7
48
Show this thread
The fellowship is named after my mom, who would have been 72 today. She believed that if you gave people education, kindness, and some resources, they would usually impress you. Susan forever.
22
47
985
Show this thread
Please apply, especially if you're the kind of person traditionally underrepresented in TV writers' rooms. (You can probably guess what kind of person that is, but here's a report with more information: hollywood.colorofchange.org/writers-room-r)
3
92
412
Show this thread
Fellows will get $25,000 each and mentorship from a veteran writer as they work to complete an original TV pilot. At the end of six months, they'll then be guaranteed two meetings with agents/managers/development executives.
3
65
415
Show this thread
In the seven years since I left Gawker to work in TV, I've had dozens of journalists reach out to ask how they might get into entertainment. Today, I'm launching a fellowship to help unemployed or underemployed journalists get into film and television:
96
1,913
5,382
Show this thread
It felt special for one of the greatest artists alive to actively avoid the spotlight in a media landscape that's increasingly reliant on endless self-promotion via as many channels as possible. RIP to MF Doom
2
30
294
Added a few tracks to the "Songs That Sound Like Xmas Music But Aren't Actually" playlist. I wanna add more rap to this but good candidates escape me. Anyway, enjoy!
4
2
60
This was a nice conversation and even if you take nothing else from it please at least watch "A Face in the Crowd" immediately.
Quote Tweet
This @cordjefferson interview has it all: streaming recs, meditations on pandemic pop culture, existential wrestling with success. read it all deezlinks.substack.com/p/q-and-a-with
2
3
47
10th anniversary of this Thanksgiving story I wrote for The Awl about an old friend, and almost 16 years since that old friend died. I hope you have a nice day with people you care about.
2
12
126
It was genuinely a dream come true to talk to Terry Gross on Fresh Air. I was grinning like a goon the entire time we spoke.
Quote Tweet
The HBO series @watchmen combines sci-fi, superheroes and the reality of racism in America. TODAY: We talk with one of the show writers, @cordjefferson. 'Watchmen' has 26 Emmy nominations.
83
73
1,025
I loved working on this show so much! And I'm so grateful for and honored by this recognition that I'm not even really sad that I can't go to Taix tonight with all my friends and have 9 martinis and 38 baskets of fries!
40
20
820
Toure Show x Cord Jefferson “I Make TV.” is a veteran TV writer who’s worked on Watchmen, The Good Place, and Master Of None—3 of the best shows out. We talk about the art of writing for TV and whether Angela walks on water after the end.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tou
4
41
Had a great convo about pregnancy and writing and other stuff with the homie Jia via our friends at Pop-Up. Also, check out Priya's shikanji recipe. It's delicious on its own but I added some tequila to make a kind of Indian marg.
Quote Tweet
You’re invited to dinner, @popupmag style! chef @priyakrishna makes white-bean stuffed poblanos, and writers @jiatolentino and @cordjefferson talk Watchmen, racism in America, and what it’s like to be pregnant during the strangest summer in living memory. bit.ly/dinnerguestsep2
1
3
54
I had a very nice talk with at Color of Change about why therapy should be free and Watchmen and hiring black people and other stuff. Check it out!
Quote Tweet
NEW EPISODE ALERT - @cordjefferson (Writer - Watchmen, The Good Place) joined our #TellBlackStories podcast to discuss #Watchmen, the impact stories have on culture, and why Hollywood needs to show up for Black lives.
Subscribe + listen now: linktr.ee/TBSPodcast
1:30
8.7K views
1
7
43
Discussing LeBron’s gravitas among NBA players with and elevating the superhero genre with , on #BSPodcast with
1
3
21
Watchmen will be free on HBO this weekend. ✊🏾✌️🏾✊🏾
7
237
818
I really liked having this conversation with and but this is officially the video that ruined my own impression of my quarantine beard. I thought it read as distinguished and it instead reads as feral, a man who's given up.
Quote Tweet
"We need to start having conversations about what policing looks like in our TV shows and movies"
@cordjefferson joins #WatchLess to discuss how #WatchmenHBO's themes of systemic racism & trauma are feeling EXTRA relevant today
Listen @ApplePodcasts: apple.co/3eda7fI
1:00
5.4K views
9
14
90
It's been hard to watch the news of the last few weeks without thinking, "Watchmen predicted all of this." So I spoke with #Watchmen writer about masked cops, Tulsa, white supremacy, and a lot more: rollingstone.com/tv/tv-features
100
1,178
2,764
"It’s exhausting to always be writing and thinking about a new person being racist or sexist or otherwise awful. It’s exhausting to feel compelled on a consistent basis to defend your claim to dignity," writes. read.medium.com/mzwil60
3
50
188



















