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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Writer at Slate, New Republic, NYT Mag, etc // pre-order AVIDLY READS SCREEN TIME (https://nyupress.org/9781479820573/avidly-reads-screen-time/) // TV Editor at LA Review of Books // Utility Infielder at Washington University in St. Louis