Doreen St. Felix

Bio

Doreen St. Félix is a staff writer at The New Yorker. She was previously a staff writer at MTV News, and an editor-at-large at Lenny Letter. She was a 2017 finalist for the The American Society of Magazine Editors’ National Magazine Award in Columns and Commentary. In 2016, she was named as one of Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30. Her writing has appeared in the Times Magazine, New York, Vogue, The Fader, and Pitchfork. Here St. Félix discusses the ingredients necessary for good criticism, appreciating the influence of other writers, and the notion of cultural clairvoyance.