I’m very happy for Gilbert but I do want to keep in mind that these lists they’re talking about do not involve any pay for participants. This is crowd sourcing from culture experts, many of whom are under employed right now.

She was (was! 💔) a phenomenal woman.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

So, this happened.

Condé Nast Pays Over $400,000 to 3 Journalists Fired Over Protest www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/b...

Counterpoint: No I will not

CBS: You suck. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Looking for book recommendations that don’t sound like they were written by a robot or a high schooler cramming for an AP Lit exam? Check out Ron Charles. Your TBR pile is about to get a lot better roncharles.substack.com #booksky

Wonderful profile by @jasonzinoman.bsky.social Martin Short and the Secret to Finding Joy While Surviving Tragedy www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/m...

great piece highlighting the beautiful painting on the cover of TTYA

🙌 @somers.bsky.social 🎨 hyperallergic.com/the-painted-...

every headline about someone who used AI in a professional capacity is like, "And then [jerk] used AI to do [the job] and AI massively fucked it up and now everyone is laughing and booing"

Ron Charles just sold a book to skeptical, seen-it/read-it all me! open.substack.com/pub/roncharl...

🤬 joannascutts.substack.com/p/thieves-in...

I ♥️ Kate Medina. NF writers, attention: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

“At the end of her book, Moffat quotes Forster’s first official biographer…summing up the writer’s guiding credo. “He believed—literally, and as more than a sentimental cliché—that the true history of the human race was the history of human affection.”” open.substack.com/pub/joannasc...

“When you come out with a book, you just have no idea what the context is that your book is going to be published in. So it has been very eerie to go through this experience of promoting it.” @lailalalami.com in People Magazine people.com/laila-lalami...

Attention @susanorlean.bsky.social You gotta go to Antibes, stat! The Uncertain Fate of France’s Last Two Captive Orcas www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/w...

“Another enormous release day. Where is the benign millionaire who will fund a new book criticism publication so that more of these books will get coverage? Where are you??? Were you at the Met Gala last night looking stupid?” Go @maris.bsky.social Go! www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

I loved talking with Laura Zigman for the @bostonglobe.com about her new novel, THE AUTHOR WEEKEND. What a delicious satire of the book world and modern fandom! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/05/a...

Seeing a lot of people repost this — understandably, her work deserves to be recognized — but this is a salient detail The Pulitzers may be theoretically righting a previous wrong here, but it comes off somewhat disingenuous without acknowledging the history www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

🧵The Pulitzers today read like a journalistic clap back at Trump. * @jkbjournalist.bsky.social getting a special citation for her reporting on Epstein nearly a decade ago. * @washingtonpost.com for public service in their reporting about the Trump/DOGE overhaul of the government & its costs

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Honored to have Rep. Jim Clyburn in my corner. He and I fought side by side in Congress for the ACA, Social Security, and working families. His trust means everything. Let's finish the fight — as California's next governor.

Legend down. ♥️ Nicole Hollander www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/a...

This story was broken by The Cornell Sun, which @nytimes.com nowhere cites. As a former editor-in-chief of The Sun — and in the name of brave, amazing college newspapers everywhere — do not treat student journalists as truffle pigs, taking what they've sniffed out without credit or compensation.

“If you spend lots of tax money and have lots of policies trying to manage climate change in Amsterdam, why would you rent out your public walls to exactly the opposite?” In Permissive Amsterdam, Ads for Fossil Fuels or Meat Are Now Verboden www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/c...

@joannascutts.bsky.social Joanna Scutts: brilliant, as usual open.substack.com/pub/joannasc...

Just checking in on week three of Heath Freeman's decision to fire our print production team...

Jamie Ding is on a historic winning streak, but his superpower has nothing to do with gameplay. It’s his likability. on.wsj.com/4mK9w9F

bless Scaachi embedded.substack.com/p/my-interne...

Writers! You have options! buttondown.com or ghost.org/vs/substack/

Instead of asking chatgpt, why not ask a librarian? You'll get real answers and they won't tell you to kill yourself.

📢 Local journalists: Want to collaborate with us? Apply to join our Local Reporting Network! This round of applications is part of our 50 State Initiative. Newsrooms in 30 states (in blue) are eligible to apply. Deadline: May 1. More details: https://propub.li/4tNiZzk

"We all have eyes to see, but our media can't dare speak to the reality. And so we endure as we do." An instructive thread from David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social about why the press even today cannot tell the truth about Trump. Similar in some ways to my pressthink.org/2017/09/norm...

Readers! Ron Charles’ substack is essential 💥💥💥 open.substack.com/pub/roncharl...

Every. Single. One. Of. These. Jobs. Is. Training. AI. I hate it here.

It has come to my attention that not all of you are aware that this exists. So, here it is. It exists. Dozens of channels of randomized music videos and bumpers. Choose your era and return to your childhood. Bookmark it for when you need to escape back. wantmymtv.vercel.app/player.html

And with this one last, huge scoop, economics reporter Jeff Stein leaves the Washington Post, a day after saying his “faith in the paper’s current leadership is broken beyond repair.” (And if any of you know Jeff Bezos, pls feel free to share.)

Grammarly's AI-fueled edits -- using my name - suggested making up sources and writing vague insinuations. In my latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link) I describe Grammarly's terrible edits in my name -- and call for a federal right of publicity. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...

Laurie Hertzel on the formation of her reading life, now on Book Post! This post is adapted from her new book, "Ghosts of Fourth Street: My Family, a Death, and the Hills of Duluth," coming later this month from the University of Minnesota Press. books.substack.com/p/diary-laur...

With growing interest in mining critical metals from the seafloor, countries are now negotiating international rules. The Trump administration is forging ahead on its own, speeding up environmental review for mining the fragile ecosystem. n.pr/47FUr2g

I feel it's my duty as the Last Print Subscriber to let people know this. The staff critics are running in the Book Review, not the weekday paper, which is a big change, and cuts down on the number of reviews. And features like the death of mass market paperbacks also run in the book review.

I miss 90s NYC. And smoking. Excellent from @glynnismacnicol.bsky.social in @nytimes.com “At a party, recently, one woman in her 40s from L.A. told me, unprompted, that she would pay $10 million to go back to that time and place.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/o...

Proud! Lauren Francis-Sharma’s brilliant CASUALTIES OF TRUTH makes the list! 🎉🎉🎉 @laurenfsharma.bsky.social @groveatlantic.bsky.social

Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...