Glen Weldon
Glen Weldon is a host of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast. He reviews books, movies, comics and more for the NPR Arts Desk.
Over the course of his career, he has spent time as a theater critic, a science writer, an oral historian, a writing teacher, a bookstore clerk, a PR flack, a completely inept marine biologist and a slightly better-ept competitive swimmer.
Weldon is the author of two cultural histories: Superman: The Unauthorized Biography and The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Atlantic, Slate, McSweeney's and more; his fiction has appeared in several anthologies and other publications. He is the recipient of an NEA Arts Journalism Fellowship, an Amtrak Writers' Residency, a Ragdale Writing Fellowship and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts for Fiction.
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Watching The French Dispatch is like seeing an issue of The New Yorker come to life. Wes Anderson's new film is based on articles of a fictional magazine published in a fictional city in France.
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DC Comics announced that Superman's teenage son will be romantically involved with a male friend in a comic to be published in November. It's a growing trend. -
The trippy Netflix series about a student filmmaker who uses dark magic to get revenge on a sleazy producer borrows heavily from Cronenberg and Lynch, but tells a weird, gruesome tale all its own. -
In the pages of a DC Comics anthology series, Tim Drake — the third young man to assume the role of Batman's sidekick, Robin, has a "lightbulb moment" realization — but his journey is only beginning. -
Each week, the guests and hosts on Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. Today it's The White Lotus, KennyHoopla's song "Estella," Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis' first album and more. -
The ceremony will take place in September, and will be hosted by Cedric the Entertainer. It's been a tumultuous year for television shows because of the pandemic.
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The series, produced by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, effortlessly grafts the bone-dry humor of What We Do in the Shadows onto the self-aggrandizing copaganda format of COPS. -
A top-secret cache of sperm is stored under the Space Needle in Hot White Heist. Bob Odenkirk stars as a suburban dad with a secret identity in Nobody. And it's Criterion Collection's neonoir month.
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The new season of I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson finds the sketch comedian digging even deeper under the surface of toxic masculinity to reveal its soft, hilariously pathetic center. -
Hulu's horror-thriller about a woman (Ilana Glazer) who begins to suspect there's something sinister about her pregnancy grasps at many ideas without developing them.
