City Chicken is a newsletter about television and the other art forms (film, the novel) it has allegedly killed. Written by Phil Maciak. For a more detailed description of the premise (and the title), read the first Substack letter in the archive, from May 2020.
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I'm the TV critic at the New Republic, and I'm writing DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027). I live in Saint Louis.