Little Boxes

What happens when television is part of your cultural DNA? Twelve writers talk about their influences, and they're more Magnum PI than Marcel Proust. This is cultural criticism from an enthusiast's point of view--taking sitcoms and dramedies and very special episodes seriously, not because they're art, but because they matter to us. Little Boxes is TV writing not as "Why I Loved Parker Lewis Can't Lose" but "What Is Up with Everyone in the 80s Having a Domestic: The Different Strokes/Gimme a Break/Mr. Belvedere/Charles in Charge Story."

Essays by: Elena Passarello

Edan Lepucki

V. V. Ganeshananthan

Jenny Hendrix

Ryan Van Meter

Rumaan Alam

Justin Torres

Elisa Gabbert

Justin Taylor

Justin Torres

T Clutch Fleischmann

Nina McConigley Danielle Evans