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Here is the list of all the “good bars” in NYC that will be showing @hellgatenyc.com’s general election livestream. Have another one? Let us/me know.

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Smiley Southern boo was just made fire warden at his office, i.e., I am shacking up with Kenneth the page

Aww man, this week is really coming for the heroes! Thinking about the Black Messiah today.

A lovely surprise to see this list go live today: lithub.com/58-books-you... It's a good list, y'all. Complex and weird and fun and human.

Had a ball reporting on the midnight Shadow Ticket release party, over @literaryhub.bsky.social ! 💃

A well lived and long life. RIP

blackgirlwatching.substack.com/p/one-battle... One Fetish After Another: PTA Exploits Black Women and Averts Revolution

The Haters won. But the Table of Success is forever. tableofsuccess.hellgatenyc.com

Assata Shakur, of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, has died at the age of 78 in Cuba, where she received political asylum in 1984.

One Battle After Another has definitely got some things going for it (it's wildly entertaining and the performances are top-notch). But it also makes clear why Anderson rarely centers Black women in his films. The white male characters portrayed by DiCaprio and Penn are more prominent, realized...

attn: Black feminist critics; sorry to be ~that bish~ but I desperately need your takes on the new PTA 😂

waxed on (and off) for @literaryhub.bsky.social about our current tv obsession with dead/dying media 👀

I know correlation isn’t causation, and I know numbers this small are anecdotes not data, but Redford, like Lynch, certainly does provide evidence towards the notion that trying to do good in your life might be related to continuing to get hotter right up until the day you pass from this earth

from Corey Robin on FB:

In honor of the season, @britt-kathryn.bsky.social ranks some beloved (and not so beloved) books from her high school English syllabus.

if I had my cultural drothers/were a magician with (very) limited powers, R.E.M. would be reuniting for a one-night retrospective at the Kings Theatre THIS afternoon, and there would be a new Tessa Hadley novel in my mailbox

For @teenvogue.com, I wrote about America’s favorite bipartisan pastime: starving people at home and abroad. As officials confirm what we already know, that there is a famine in Gaza, I hope we can all remember that none of this is unavoidable. It is a choice.

This week, the Lit Hub Podcast features @britt-kathryn.bsky.social, @drewsof.bsky.social, Fiction/Non/Fiction, and a phone call from @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social!

PSA/private select: it is currently possible to stream all of MTV's Unplugged on a certain corporate service that starts with a P.

time the revelator, spite the motivator 😈

Maybe someday we’ll get The Devil Wears Prada 2: Back in the Habit. Until then, @britt-kathryn.bsky.social shares some rejected ideas for a much-anticipated sequel.

today I chose silly

Just called my reps - Goldman, Gillbrand & Schumer - to tell them their silence about the murder-by-starvation of children and civilians in Gaza shocks the conscience and they must immediately call for the end of US aid to Israel until Israel institutes a ceasefire and allows aid/food to enter Gaza.

I truly intended this just as an email and not a public thing but fuck it we ball. The New York Times is not alone in its culpability but it is deeply culpable and its near-monopoly status in our blighted American media ecosystem allows it to do what it does.

@britt-kathryn.bsky.social explores the difficulties in saving the historical homes of Black authors (and highlights some well-preserved ones you should visit).

wrote about some fictional billionaires for @literaryhub.bsky.social ! 🤑

boop boop, I dug this dig into tv novels/novels made for tv !

a place to start go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

lifetime terms barely made sense when sneezing three times in a day came with a 70% mortality rate. we cannot be ruled by these wretched old wizards

For @literaryhub.bsky.social, waxed a bit about one of my favorite fictional sub-genres: the Friends In the Big City story

Wow, mismanagement of New York City - what a genuinely terrifying prospect! Siri who is the current mayor of New York City

he's right and he's right to say it

Incredible mom energy from Mira Nair

If this has happened to you today, get in touch with us at [email protected]. Read more on our live blog: hellgatenyc.com/hell-gate-ny...

Really fun list of showbiz shows and publishing shows by @britt-kathryn.bsky.social for @literaryhub.bsky.social. "Happy bingeing" indeed! ‬⭐️📚

The people's prince is absolutely slaying this debate; All I want for Christmas is Mayor Zohran!!!

went ~medium~ crazy and made this Apex Dad collage

Everyone knows that Wes Anderson has invented many fake books for his movies, out of loose homage and ~vibes~ What THIS list presupposes is, maybe he didn't???

Which is the best fake book from a Wes Anderson film? @britt-kathryn.bsky.social‬ investigates.

Retro Weather Channel aesthetics, The Rehearsal on HBO, and dungeon crawler take on Minesweeper: These are the things that made us happy this week!

I'm still buzzing from our @unhappinesspod.bsky.social conversation with @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social about reparations, climate justice, social contract narratives as fantasies, and so much more. definitely check this one out folks www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

Want to know what you should read this summer? Ask a bookseller. Ask a writer. Ask a librarian. Ask a living, breathing human being. Hell, ask me! It's been a while since I've done one of these, so let's do it: one like = one summer reading book rec.

RIP George Wendt

A(U)NTS! at The Brick, written by Zoe Geltman and directed by Julia Sirna-Frest, is a dropped icecream cone of a play: sweet & sticky & a lil bit...infested. It starts as a workplace comedy about 3 single aunts (Jehan O. Young, Geltman, and cannonball Megan Hill), working in a medical office...1/5

@britt-kathryn.bsky.social rounds up books you should read if you loved Sinners.