Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model “You wanna be on top?” The question that’s reverberated through television speakers and for the past two decades. America’s Next Top Model opened each episode asking us – the audience, future contestants, and young fans; what would you do to win it all? Or maybe, more importantly, what wouldn’t you? It’s been 23 years since the first cycle of ANTM premiered, with a cast of characters emerging on our screen and Tyra Banks at the helm. The show...

Growing up Liberian-American the terms gossip and storytelling were synonymous colloquially. This connection between the way we tell stories and the way we talk about each other and ourselves is something I’ve been grappling with in my own creative practice. It’s possible that the impulse we have to gossip and the impulse we have to tell stories are born from the same place: the desire to express our personal subjective truths. In my last three years as a writing student at Pratt, I’ve begun...

March 30, 2026 Newsletter Dearest Prattlers, This week’s newsletter features Junior Writing major Sydney Brewer’s insights on music streaming platforms and how they alter our relationships to music. Sydney Brewer (she/her) is a third-year writing major. She writes prose-poetry and fiction about diasporic experiences, language, and memory. Without further ado, here is Sydney’s newsletter, The Cost of Streaming @donaldoivanbarber/TikTok / Adobe Stock / @miss.mia777/TikTok Following last year...