celebrating the country's birthday as the better founders intended: indoors, while wrestling with one of its great critiques PS skip sleeps with the fishes at the end of Blue Comet; y'all can't tell me different ✌️

The only acceptable use of Claude

In niche news, really dug this brief history/defense of ska, in @currentaffairs.bsky.social

This was such a fun interview!

the angle I've been waiting for!!

to all alleged “creatives” who use AI in any way, may I just say,

Not nearly enough reporting about what's happening in Cuba, which the administration is attempting to squeeze, punish, and coerce into submission and violent self destruction. This is so much worse than the embargo. It's hideous. Haiti, Cuba, ongoing boat strike murders: anti-Black foreign policy

@literaryhub.bsky.social coworker @britt-kathryn.bsky.social covering the biggest news in books

@britt-kathryn.bsky.social takes you to the New York Antiquarian Book Fair!

really digging this piece on the conundrum of historical revisions onstage, from Emma Adler @thedriftmag.com

if Geese is a psy-op just call me Happy Truman

Calling all cinephiles! Vote in our bracket to determine the best literary film adaptation of the last 50 years!

At @literaryhub.bsky.social, I wrote about a movie I am lately obsessed with and two very good novels it brought to mind

just for the record "death of the author" means "the author doesnt have total control over the meaning of their own art" not "its okay to give money to hitler if you liked his paintings as a child"

Criterion flash sales will be the death of me

I didn’t know this but current and past members of the Blue Man Group always refer to one another forever as Blue Men. “There’s a Blue Man in Ottawa,” etc. No one is a former Blue Man. They live in an endless Blue present

Re Chavez: Thread for sexual assault survivors/victims (however you see yourself is ok!) and people supporting them today. Here are some things that I think are useful. I am not an expert, just someone who has been navigating being public about my experiences, including in media interviews. 🧵

sick of all this oscars discourse! it's up to the VIEWER to determine whether or not famous actor Joe Estevez is "in on the joke"

*taps internet microphone* After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ... We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ... lithub.com/what-was-los...

If you’re having Grodd troubles, I feel bad for you, son / I got ninety-nine problems but a chimp ain't one

"It's not artificial intelligence. It's African intelligence." Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...

Nothing but respect for MY president, wishing a happy Presidents’ Day to all 🇺🇸

Hey everyone! Huge news! Our trans girl scout list has sold a total of 146,000 boxes as of today! But MANY trans girl scouts only have 20, 30, 40 boxes sold. I just resorted our list to put those on the top. Go get your girl scout cookies and make a trans kid's day!

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.

“.. People take part in a rally on the day of a general strike to protest U.S. President Donald Trump's deployment of thousands of immigration enforcement officers on the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota.” @reuters.com

Going to throw a few more out here to add to Twin Cities Bookstores: Black Garnet is a newer bookstore in St Paul that specializes in BIPOC literature and has done a lot already to build a community space and there's also Louise Erdrich's Birchbark Books in Minneapolis

I hope people support birchbark books in the twin cities which is run by Ojibwe writer Louise Erdrich. birchbarkbooks.com

Today is the liminal day, the one between Bowie's birth day and death day. Behave accordingly.

Not sure what to read this year? Maybe consider the 313 books we’re most looking forward to in 2026.

Michelle Huneven is a wonderful novelist. I think she's also maybe a little bit underrated. It's potentially awkward to have a conversation with someone about that but I think we had a great one, about long careers and publishing's vagaries, for @bombmag.bsky.social: bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

adulthood is “getting” Professor Bhaer, Victor Laszlo, and Mr. Darcy—but importantly NOT Cecil Vyse 😇

MTV is officially ending all of its music channels. In honor of that, what's your favorite music video?

two eggnogs in and raving about the Marxist merits of Trading Places to my bemused family, merry christmas to one and all from the hometown sectional!

Really loved learning more about @equatormag.bsky.social ! You should subscribe to this rad new rag!!

I came up with dozens of categories to organize my thoughts on my year in theater: defector.com/the-best-and...

Wonderful new piece up at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social on Jane Austen at 250, spirited writing, fun facts, notes on an exhibition, something for ardent fans and casual readers of the novelist alike lareviewofbooks.org/article/happ... --by @sinsleyh.bsky.social

“Was I a DEI hire?” It’s a question that WIRED senior writer Jason Parham sometimes asks. In an industry perpetually on the verge of extinction, Parham jokes that the only reason he’s survived so long is because he’s Black. www.wired.com/story/dei-di...

Round out your end-of-the-year book recommendations with 43 new books our staff loved in 2025.

@britt-kathryn.bsky.social remembers Tom Stoppard.

@britt-kathryn.bsky.social tells Hollywood what it should do with a live-action Eloise.

Happy #ElectionDay, New York!⁠ ⁠ Polls are open statewide from 6am-9pm. Remember, if you are in line to vote when the polls close, stay in line! ⁠ ⁠ If you notice any issues at the polls, get in touch with the Election Protection hotline at 866-OUR-VOTE.

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 ! 💃