About Manuel Betancourt
Manuel is an LA-based writer, editor, and critical thinker. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Film Comment, The Atlantic, Backstage Magazine, Vice, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Catapult, among others. He's a regular contributor to Film Quarterly and Electric Literature. He's the author of The Male Gazed: On Hunks, Heartthrobs and What Pop Culture Taught Me About (Desiring) Men (Catapult, 2023), named one of the best books of 2023 by Time magazine and NPR; he's also the author of Judy at Carnegie Hall (Bloomsbury Press, 2020) and one of the writers of the Eisner award-nominated graphic novel The Cardboard Kingdom (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2018) and its sequel The Cardboard Kingdom: Roar of the Beast (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2021) | @bmanuel
Introduction to Multimedia Composition 