Can world leaders have work-life balance? I traveled to Helsinki over the summer to find out. For this week's issue, I profiled Sanna Marin, the former "party girl" prime minister of Finland. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

wow nothing like someone impersonating an editor fishing for a novel you have on sub to make you feel alive, I’m flattered Filippo 🥲

On the contrary this person has just been anointed and is now the pope, I'm hearing.

Such an honor to work on this one, on so many levels-- it's a special project, and going to be a beautiful, incredibly thoughtful book.

sitting in the coffee shop in the lobby of one of NYC's major publishers with the agency submissions tracking doc open.......... living dangerously...........

"oh man, I think things are about to get really bad" a thought I have had approximately 123,342 times in 2025 so far

once again reckoning with the fact that I may never in my life encounter another piece of writing I consider quite as perfect as this poem www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47553/...

everything is so stupid all the time

sat across the subway this morning from a man with a long mullet reading ACCELERATE: The Accelerationist Reader, hard yikes

we live in hell, exhibit 586,608

laughably horrible outside

I've been lusting after her cookbook but decided I had to cook a few of her recipes first to prove the buy to myself and good lord this first one was a stone cold knockout, actual restaurant quality cafehailee.com/recipes/stic...

Why tech billionaires want a dictatorship — & why most of Silicon Valley will quietly watch democracy burn. My talk with @jonfortt.bsky.social (my DePauw classmate) about the dangerous coalition between the far right & the tech right. On @theverge.com's Decoder www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

I didn't expect that Trump would actually somehow manage to make me MORE interested in Epstein conspiracy theories, but here we are

So pleased to be working with the beyond brilliant Jaime on this gorgeous, expansive book on out space: our place in it, and our responsibilities to it. I adore the way she writes and thinks, and know how special this one is going to be!

Jess is one hell of an editor and a fierce advocate for her authors-- as an agent I'm sorry to see her go at Quirk, but if I were an author in need of a freelance editor, I'd jump at this!

A much-needed essay @chaykak.bsky.social looking at the way using AI affects our thinking. Given what autocorrect has done to people's spelling, he's spot on in raising the alarm about the very average, extremely mundane reality of AI-aided creativity heading our way.

I love this for us

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

you know what's cool is the new Outlook glitch that randomly strips attachments from emails generated via template, which is the tool that I use for submissions. it's great. I love it so much. I am having a great time

Earlier this year, The New Yorker sent me to Los Angeles to train to become an intimacy coordinator, the new shepherds of the sex scene in a post #MeToo Hollywood. Was this job legit, or a cynical HR move? I investigated... www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I think Reddit may be the only social media platform in my life where the good/value (for me personally) just obviously, enormously outweighs any felt negatives. as someone who loves to pick up hobbies and burrow into niche fields of knowledge/expertise it is sort of nerding-out paradise

genuine question how do people deal with editing in Google Docs

if you'd like to develop a sudden, bone-deep horror at the very concept of material accumulation may I recommend the one quick trick of moving apartments

bought a copy of a book that released last week just because I was interested in it and before I knew the sales track would look strong (and it might end up being comp able), please clap

rereading the last chapter of POETS SQUARE on a Sunday afternoon because apparently I like the feeling of being devastated (complimentary, to be clear)

I could not be any more over the moon for Courtney Gustafson or her deeply beautiful book, POETS SQUARE, which is now a New York Times bestseller!

We could not be more excited to welcome Lucy Cleland to @goldinagency.bsky.social--a truly brilliant agent and a lovely friend of the agency, now turned colleague! She had a fairly low key first day yesterday in the form of, uh, her client winning a Pulitzer, so we'll count it as an auspicious start

the early reviews for POETS SQUARE might be the singular exception to the "don't read the Goodreads reviews" rule, I love each and every one but especially

get to drop some more good @goldinagency.bsky.social news today I think 😎

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For @altajournal.bsky.social, I reviewed Courtney Gustafson's (aka Poets Square Cats) new book, POETS SQUARE: A Memoir in Thirty Cats, which is glorious and about how we do and don't care for one another (as well as, of course, about cats, so many wonderful cats): www.altaonline.com/books/nonfic...

In case others might be in the mood for a little good news, for a change: I have found this new book idea absolutely electric from the very first time @jennitaur.bsky.social told me about it, and it really couldn't feel any more urgent, expansive, or necessary now.

gee, wonder what's going on over at ol' x dot com--

Happy publication day to POETS SQUARE: A Memoir in Thirty Cats, a beautiful book about animal rescue that's also about how to find increments of community and hope in a world that can feel irreparably broken. Trust me: you should read this one. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735683...

We're thrilled to share that registration is now open for AALA Members for the @peopleofpublishing.bsky.social. A limited number of early bird tickets are available. Wednesday, September 17, 2025 New York Academy of Medicine New York, NY * Early Bird AALA Member ($129.00) * AALA Member ($179.00)

I'd like to understand the very specific psychology of agreeing to a Chotiner interview

tell me why I can't remember most details of my life in high school but can remember every single query I've ever seen before at the moment I come across the deal announcement or published book

a very fun thing about trying to find a new apartment in Brooklyn right now is seeing that the rent of basically every single apartment has gone up by like $1,000 a month in the last 3 years. great stuff. I love it here

I could not be more excited to share that @avidreaderpress.bsky.social will be publishing the brilliant @gilduran.com's urgent, vital analysis of the authoritarian movement in tech, a dangerous force we're now seeing explode into national politics

Curtis Yarvin looks exactly like a Standard Poodle whose heart has been turned to evil

I like my Kobo, but it doesn't seem great that I had to have three (3) frustrating and truly not useful interactions with customer service (either chat-bots or people using too strict of scripts) before I figured out the extremely simple solution to the issue myself

that's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight, writing a stern email to a customer support person

the responses to this are Exhibit A in the "Bluesky doesn't have the juice" case

Every fiber of my being is obsessed with this cover (and the book it contains!)

the worst email or text mistake you ever made sure doesn't look so bad now, huh www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Excited to share that Tested has been shortlisted for Best Sports Podcast in the New York Festivals Radio Awards! radio.newyorkfestivals.com/winners/shor...

who is the person at NYCRuns who changed the Brooklyn Experience Half course to put that Prospect Park hill at mile 11, I just wanna talk

Last year, I was booked on a big radio show when the host freaked out and canceled *as the show was starting*! 🫠 It's hard to tell a complicated, scary story like this one. Thanks to @janemayer.bsky.social, @sbg1.bsky.social, & @eosnos.bsky.social for listening podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...