Glen Weldon Glen Weldon is a host of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast. He reviews books, movies, comics and more for the NPR Arts Desk.
Glen Weldon at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C., March 19, 2019. (photo by Allison Shelley)
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Glen Weldon at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C., March 19, 2019. (photo by Allison Shelley)
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Glen Weldon

Host, Pop Culture Happy Hour

Glen Weldon is a host of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast. He reviews books, movies, comics and more for the NPR Arts Desk.

Over the course of his career, he has spent time as a theater critic, a science writer, an oral historian, a writing teacher, a bookstore clerk, a PR flack, a completely inept marine biologist and a slightly better-ept competitive swimmer.

Weldon is the author of two cultural histories: Superman: The Unauthorized Biography and The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Atlantic, Slate, McSweeney's and more; his fiction has appeared in several anthologies and other publications. He is the recipient of an NEA Arts Journalism Fellowship, an Amtrak Writers' Residency, a Ragdale Writing Fellowship and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts for Fiction.

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Emma Stone in Poor Things. Searchlight Pictures hide caption

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Searchlight Pictures

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Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall in a scene from Colin From Accounts. Tony Mott/Paramount+ hide caption

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Bruce Willis in a scene from Die Hard. FlixPix/Alamy hide caption

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Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Michael Cera return as the voices of Ramona Flowers and Scott Pilgrim in Netflix's Scott Pilgrim Takes Off. COURTESY OF NETFLIX hide caption

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Barry Keoghan and Archie Madekwe in Saltburn. MGM and Amazon Studios hide caption

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MGM and Amazon Studios

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Michael Fassbender in The Killer. Netflix hide caption

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Netflix

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Jonathan Bailey and Matt Bomer in Fellow Travelers. Ben Mark Holzberg/Showtime hide caption

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Iman Vellani, Brie Larson, and Teyonah Parris in The Marvels. Laura Radford/Marvel Studios hide caption

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Nicolas Cage in Dream Scenario. A24 hide caption

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A24

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Dominic Sessa, Da'Vine Joy Rudolph and Paul Giamatti star in The Holdovers. Focus Features hide caption

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Focus Features

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Lokita (Joely Mbundu) and Tori (Pablo Schils) are two migrant children making their way in Belgium in Tori and Lokita. Janus Films hide caption

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Janus Films

Anna Richardson hosts the Channel 4 reality dating show, Naked Attraction which is now available on Max. Channel 4 / Nicky Johnston hide caption

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Channel 4 / Nicky Johnston

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The wins and flaws of 'Fellow Travelers,' a show about two gay men over 4 decades

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Cynthia Nixon and Christine Baranski in a scene from the second season of The Gilded Age. Barbara Nitke/HBO hide caption

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Amaka Okafor as DS Hasan in Bodies. Matt Towers/Netflix hide caption

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Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio in Killers of the Flower Moon. Melinda Sue Gordon/Apple hide caption

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Sandra Hüller stars in Anatomy of a Fall. Neon hide caption

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Tom Cruise and Jason Robards in Magnolia. Maximum Film/Alamy hide caption

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Carla Gugino as Verna in episode in The Fall of the House of Usher. Eike Schroter/Netflix hide caption

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