Charles Moss

Freelance Writer

Chattanooga, Tennessee

I'm a freelance writer specializing in pop culture. I've written for The Atlantic, Slate, Washington Post, VICE, Paste Magazine and Tablet Magazine. This lovely background photo is courtesy, by the way, of Amy Fletcher Photography.

Charles Moss

Freelance Writer

Chattanooga, Tennessee

Stranger in a Strange Land
“I feel like there’s someone in this room who needs to be saved,” hollered the old, red-faced, preacher. I looked around the congregation, praying that it might be someone other than me. Of course, it wasn’t. I was the only Jew in that tiny, country church. And the preacher, along with everyone else in the small crowd, knew it.
Stranger in a Strange Land
“I feel like there’s someone in this room who needs to be saved,” hollered the old, red-faced, preacher. I looked around the congregation, praying that it might be someone other than me. Of course, it wasn’t. I was the only Jew in that tiny, country church. And the preacher, along with everyone else in the small crowd, knew it.
Meeting My Father for the First Time
<img class="progressiveMedia-noscript js-progressiveMedia-inner" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*SuvNxdcamOduuNYxh28U3A@2x.jpeg"> My dad and me at the airport in 1996. It was the first time I had met him in person. “Uh, Charles, you don’t know my but my name is Sidney Moss…and I’m your father,” he said.
The Deadbeat Club
Before the advent of college radio in the 1980’s, it felt like there was no alternative to mainstream Top 40 and the rock that eventually would become classic. It took a touch of avant guard to show devotion to little-known musical acts that hadn’t been discovered yet by MTV or any other mainstream media outlets.
Finally, the truth behind the ‘haunted’ Dybbuk Box can be revealed
The ‘cursed’ cabinet inspired a Hollywood film and spooked Post Malone. Now the man who first sold it on eBay in 2003 is coming clean. © Las Vegas Review-Journal, Inc. 2018, used with permission Back in 2001, Kevin Mannis was out visiting yard sales, look
“Local” Is Way Harder Than You Think
Tim Piersant and his partners had to unite the people of Chattanooga to reverse Prohibition-era laws before they could even begin their quest to start making whiskey in a city that long ago turned out more booze than any other place in Tennessee. As it turned out, changing the law was the easy part.
The Bitter Southerner
The Rise and Fall of Saturday Morning Cartoons | The Saturday Evening Post
For almost four decades, watching Saturday morning cartoons was a beloved ritual for millions of American kids. So, why were they so controversial?
The Saturday Evening Post
Meeting My Father for the First Time
The first sound I heard on the phone was heavy, harsh breathing. Then the stranger introduced himself to me. “You don’t know me but my name is Sidney Moss … and I’m your father,” he said.
The New York Times
Solving Business Problems the Rock Creek Informatics Way
When Guy Deloach left his position as Executive Vice President of Operations at Toyota Boshoku Corporation, he spent a lot of his time traveling to Europe, Australia and Asia. He had been in the automotive industry for most of his career and loved what he did. But when he began lecturing at several universities on the side, he discovered how much he enjoyed the feeling of molding young people into the next generation of business leaders.
Spider-Man: The Animated Series paved the way for Into the Spider-Verse and the MCU
There's a scene in the very last episode of Spider-Man: The Animated Series cartoon that's particularly touching now, just weeks after the death of Stan Lee. It's the second part of the story arc called "Spider Wars." Peter Parker, with the aid of other Spider-Men — clones with varying powers and costumes based on the original — have just defeated Spider-Carnage, a Peter Parker from an alternate dimension paired with the Carnage symbiote.
Syfy
The real hero of Daredevil season 3 is FBI agent Ray Nadeem
Polygon
How Daredevil season 3’s ending sets up the next chapter in the face of cancelations
Polygon
Beyond the Hurricanes: The quest to grant US territories statehood
To be or not to be a state? After the 2017 hurricanes, the question of statehood for US territories, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands, have different perspectives. Puerto Rico’s quest for statehood didn’t just start after Hurricane Maria slammed into the unincorporated US territory last September: it’s been ongoing since the United States took control of the Caribbean island at the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898.
The biggest changes in Iron Fist season 2
Polygon
‘Let us make our nation great again’: Severely damaged Caribbean islands by last year’s hurricanes struggle to recover
A year has passed since a trio of hurricanes—Harvey, Irma and Maria—pummeled parts of the United States and the Caribbean, leaving death and destruction and ravaging these areas with property damage skyrocketing into the hundreds of billions and leaving, in some cases, whole islands uninhabitable. On the year anniversary of this horrible tragedy, how are the islands with arguably the most damage from these natural disasters faring in the rebuilding process?
Luke Cage showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker on how Season 2 addresses Trump's America
Contributed by Luke Cage showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker is a huge Barack Obama fan; so much so that you'll notice in the background of Pop's Barber Shop — Luke's home base in Marvel's Netflix show, which dropped June 22 — that Obama and Joe Biden have both
Syfy

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Charles prefers to go by Charlie and sometimes Chuck, but not often.

He has experience writing about all facets of pop culture, from comic books and music to literature and movies. Charlie started off in the pop culture journalism field in 2007 as a writer for the Chattanooga-based alternative newsweekly The Pulse, writing album reviews and pieces on local music history. He then became a regular contributor to the pop culture site Popmatters, writing features on music and movies, eventually moving into a staff position as a comic book reviewer until 2011. He went on to become the weekly pop culture columnist for Chattanooga-based news site, Nooga.com and has since spread his pop culture wings, writing for The Atlantic, Paste, Tablet, The Washington Post, Slate, and more.