CORD JEFFERSON WRITES TO KEEP FROM raging. After getting his start in journalism writing about identity and relationships for publications like The New York Times Magazine and editing hot takes at Gawker, he began channeling his ire about race and other social delusions into film and TV work. Since then, he's helped craft one zeitgeist-capturing show after another—The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore, Master of None, The Good Place, Watchmen, and Station Eleven—examining the complicated societal factors shaping our culture and exploring his own emotional responses along the way. When he won a Primetime Emmy for Watchmen in 2020, he thanked his therapist. “Therapy should be free in this country,” he quipped.
Now, as he navigates an industry (at press time) immobilized by actor and writer strikes, Jefferson makes his directorial debut with the film , out in November, about an English professor (played by Jeffrey Wright) who writes a satirical novel under a pseudonym to expose the racism and hypocrisies
