“I moonlight, except there’s nothing I’m moonlighting from. Moonlight is all that’s out there.” ~Don DeLillo
What is the Serious Moonlight?
The Serious Moonlight emerged from the ongoing functional and reputational collapse of legacy media. Moonlighter Nick Hilden entered journalism in 2008 as both the newspaper industry and wider economy fell apart, and this experience coupled with a punk rock, DIY upbringing taught him that when journalists and artists can’t rely on existing platforms, they have to build their own.
At the Serious Moonlight, you’ll find a little bit of everything Nick covers. Interviews with interesting artists and thinkers. Reviews of new releases and forgotten classics. Travel rants and recommendations. Other random catharses into the digital void.
Nick is actively putting the cart before the horse, so material will be rolling out before everything is polished and looking pretty—perfection is the enemy and whatnot. What matters is that the story is told.
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Nick Hilden has spent over 15 years writing about art, science, politics, and more for the likes of Vanity Fair, Esquire, the Washington Post, Scientific American, Al Jazeera, Rolling Stone, Afar, the Believer, Nautilus, National Geographic, the BBC, the Los Angeles Times, the Millions, and so on and so forth, and he runs the Writers Talking Writers interview series at Publishers Weekly. Follow him on Instagram and Bluesky, and read his work at www.NickHilden.com.