So… I was one of the arts reporters laid off by The Washington Post, along with around 400 of my colleagues. (Yes, that’s the more accurate number.) Half our features section is gone and nearly all of our critics. Would love to hear any schemes and ideas for work!

the Washington Post effectively blew up its arts section today, dismissing its books, TV, music, and theater critics, features writers, and several editors. (I'm also guessing the vacant film critic position will stay that way.) Just an insane loss of talent and a huge self-inflicted wound.

The first and only time I personally heard from Will Lewis, publisher of @washingtonpost.com, before he laid me off alongside a third of the company. And before he resigned today in infamy. (This note is from a year and a half ago. Soon after, he stopped interacting with the newsroom altogether.)

A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.

Just realized that Minecraft pandemonium is what the Wayne’s World movie was for us in middle school / early high school. We’d go to the theater just to scream and head bang and play air guitar to Bohemian Rhapsody. Let the kids mayhem it up!

“I feel very fortunate, probably not as fortunate as Jeff Goldberg tonight… Literally the easiest scoop known to man!” Had a ton of fun writing about Graydon Carter’s book party

I did not realize until just now that one of the things that gives me the most joy is reading endless government secrets in JFK files

Folks, this is not a drill. The T just got removed from the LGBTQ+ on the Stonewall Memorial’s website (it’s a National Monument run by the National Parks Service). STONEWALL! A movement led by trans women of color.

Word to the wise, DO NOT take a cab or the express bus to or from Newark airport (EWR) until at least January. Holiday traffic is impossible. Just took me an hour and 45 mins to get into Manhattan. You want to be on a train underground!

Sometimes I’m floored by the immense privilege of getting to be a culture journalist. Talked with Francis Ford Coppola for @washingtonpost.com about loving big and taking huge swings. “I think grief is the price we pay for love,” he told me. “It’s worth it.” wapo.st/3VkSkLs

Following everything @sarahjeong.bsky.social does from now until forever!!!

PSA: Anyone negotiating a remote job offer, make sure you have a SIGNED legal contract that states you are a PERMANENT remote employee and not required to come into the office. You never know when your company will completely renege on its agreements.

GET ALL OF YOUR VACCINES NOW PEOPLE.