Corey Beasley

Creative Strategist, Journalist, Writer

Brooklyn, NY

Senior Creative Strategist, Mashable Contributing Writer, the Village Voice, Paste, PopMatters, and more Former Editor, Cokemachineglow Novelist-at-work, lots of coffeeshops in Brooklyn

Corey Beasley

Creative Strategist, Journalist, Writer

Brooklyn, NY

Senior Creative Strategist, Mashable Contributing Writer, the Village Voice, Paste, PopMatters, and more Former Editor, Cokemachineglow Novelist-at-work, lots of coffeeshops in Brooklyn

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A Womb with a View: Ian McEwan's "Nutshell"
Most of us know a bit of the play long before we tackle the actual Shakespeare in school: “to be or not to be,” “get thee to a nunnery,” protesting too much, the general rottenness of Denmark. The work is so diffused through the general culture that anyone with even a steady diet of sitcoms and cartoons has caught at least something of the young prince’s travails via allusion or clever one-liner.
Google Play Editorial
Culture Writing
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A Guide to John le Carré
If you’ve seen Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy—or any film adaptation of le Carré’s work—you know this feeling well. Like any proper spymaster, le Carré lets you have it both ways. For over fifty years, his novels have woven together gut-punch plot twists, deft characterization, language at once hardboiled, lyrical, and dryly hilarious, and a keen eye for diagnosing the geopolitical ills of the past half-century while showing us their deeply personal stakes.
Google Play Editorial
Culture Writing
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Tracing Sufjan Stevens’s Intricate Ties to the Music of New York City
In some ways, Sufjan Stevens typifies the public caricature of a musician from Brooklyn: weird, borderline-unpronounceable name; pretty-boy good looks; a level of fame and success in the indie world that borders on Beatlemania while remaining relatively unknown to mainstream audiences. On the other hand, he thwarts the stereotype at every opportunity.
The Village Voice
Culture Writing
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Jack Ü (Skrillex and Diplo): "Where Are Ü Now (f/ Justin Bieber)"
The poolboy has bad news. passed out nude on a folding chair, his genitals still covered in soft-serve ice cream from the night before—holding the pH strip up to the midday light, panic in his eyes. “Sir, please,” the poolboy says, touching one of Diplo’s seventeen abdominal muscles. it’s 60% Bud Light Lime and 20% Walgreens-brand cold medicine.
Cokemachineglow.com
Culture Writing
The United States of Film: Virginia
In other words: Sic semper tyrannis, pal. Welcome to the Old Dominion. State flag got nudity? Flag got nudity and a lady with a spear standing over the vanquished body of a tyrant who dared lay hands on our beloved Commonwealth’s hallowed soil? Check and check. Gorgeous beaches, beautiful mountains (pronounce “Appalachian” App-uh-LATCH-in, please), enough Civil War history for at least five middle school field trips—that’s Virginia.
Paste Magazine
Culture Writing
Lorde: Pure Heroine
This, in itself, is unremarkable. The monoculture may be diluted enough to get industry hyenas drooling over an artist who sells a mere two million records instead of ten, but even in this climate, real pop stars do continue to come along. We’ve got Lady Gaga. Or we did, anyway. Katy Perry. Rihanna (must we?).
Cokemachineglow
Culture Writing
Alvvays: Alvvays
Toronto, Ontario, Canada. City Hall. A secret room behind the mayor’s office, accessible by pulling on a fake hardcover of Rush’s Neil Peart’s The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa hidden in the mayoral bookshelf. The hidden room is paneled exclusively in RICH, DARK OAK with LEATHER ACCENTS and PLUSH MAROON CARPETING.
Cokemachineglow
Culture Writing
Xiu Xiu: Angel Guts Red Classroom
In his most famous piece, More Love Hours Than Can Ever Be Repaid, American artist Mike Kelley stitched dozens of old, scavenged stuffed animals and dolls to an immense canvas. The piece looks like Kandinsky unhinged his jaw, swallowed the entire FAO Schwarz on 5th Avenue, and spewed his guts onto the wall in the shame of what he’d done.
Cokemachineglow
Culture Writing

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Corey Beasley works as the Senior Creative Strategist at the Daily Beast, where he has developed campaigns for Emirates Airlines, Netflix, FX, Starz, JetBlue, National Geographic Channel, Hermes, and more. As a culture journalist, he has published work in the Village Voice, Paste, Consequence of Sound, the Daily Beast, Google Play Editorial, the Oyster Review, PopMatters, and Cokemachineglow, where he served as Editor. A former college instructor of English, he's at work on a novel.