Hi. This is my face. Credit: Megan Burbank
Pleased to meet you!
  • Pleased to meet you!

Hello! I’m Megan, your new arts editor. I moved here from Seattle about five minutes ago, and I’m so excited to start writing about books and visual art and pop culture here at the Mercury.

Before landing here, I obtained two (2) useless English degrees, forced art school freshmen to read Joan Didion, and wrote for some other places. I have written about the recent reissue of noted cranky old lady and 1970s literary hero Renata Adler, uncomfortably identifying with Britney Spears, why Broad City is great and everyone should watch it, Game of Thrones (TEAM DRAGONS), and Maggie Nelson‘s beautiful, horrifying prose. I’ve also spent some time with our cousin to the north, the Stranger, where I wrote about new evidence in the Green River Killer case, reproductive rights, missing pets, and apocryphal tales.

The first thing I found at my desk when I arrived is a book about making cool new outfits for your dolls. I won’t be writing about it (sorry, Doll Couture! 9-year-old me would’ve been super into that!), but I am SO excited to build anew a graveyard library of strange, unsolicited books submitted for review, while actually writing about art all the damn time.

See you soon!

26 replies on “Hello, I’m Your New Arts Editor!”

  2. I guess you didn’t get the memo all the way up in Seattle, Burbank – Portland’s only big enough for ONE bookish, bespectacled white lady.

    YEAH THAT’S FUCKING RIGHT, WE SEND MEMOS HERE.

    What’s next, are you going to start finding fault with local art/artists on a nearly weekly basis?

    WELL YOU CAN’T, THAT WAS ALISON’S THING.

  9. Welcome! And do enjoy the complimentary tickets from PCS for all their shows this season which have suddenly, oddly reappeared since Alison’s departure.

  12. Renata Adler is really a pretty awful person but her book is amazing and I’m glad you had the sense to write about her, so welcome. (Just don’t be writing about comedy all the time – Alison was excellent but she seemed to think stand-up comedy was part of the arts.)

  23. I’ve decided you are not related to Luke, but you’ll acclimate faster if you use him as your Seattle-Portland gateway drug. Congrats on the new gig and best of luck!

  24. Oh lovely! I was scared the new Arts Editor would be a 25 year old with four years of paid work under their belt, someone who moved to the state of Oregon three weeks ago. Someone like that would probably have zero connections to the local scene and would write surface bull—- for the next two years until he or she found a better paying job in San Francisco.

    That’s all still the case, but I am now so relieved to read that she had an internship with our blessed Merc’s sister paper!!!!! AUTOMATIC QUALIFICATION.

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