I wrote about how there are no pure platforms or publishers and how there are very few ethical media diets. Which leaves those of us who know we can’t consume ethically but still want to try, left to navigate what feels right, or, at least, less bad. lithub.com/what-do-you-...

Yup

There should really be an image of Hamish McKenzie here too

“Journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets” is proof you can put truly any string of words together and act like it makes sense

I wrote about how there are no pure platforms or publishers and how there are very few ethical media diets. Which leaves those of us who know we can’t consume ethically but still want to try, left to navigate what feels right, or, at least, less bad. lithub.com/what-do-you-...

Looks like Eric Trump

It has been a really strange time to be an American Jew, so I needed this laugh. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

What a great night!!

HAPPY FAT TUESDAY JOIN @maris.bsky.social & I WINE WILL BE DRUNK. FREE. BYOB* *Bring Your Own Beads, bottles available for sale in the shop www.eventbrite.com/e/1979661337...

I love this new thing where I look for thematic connections between the two books I read each week, because I realized this past week I read two books in which the heroines work at the telephone company. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

Here is some essential reading on bulllshit publishing technologies, featuring a couple quotes from me. www.wired.com/story/why-ge...

“The first tech-driven publishing platform.” I have not stopped laughing.

I like to think I’m a reasonably smart person, but then I watch an episode of Industry and think I totally understand what happened and then I read a recap and find stuff I didn’t even clock was happening, led by characters whose names I never bothered to learn.

Telling people to vote for Newsom on Bluesky in February of 2026 feels like posting on Facebook that they can’t use your likeness or content

“I love to know who she hates and to hate them as well. I love that she is good at making plans, and I am good at staying calm when plans get all fucked up on account of weather or mechanical failure.” This is so romantic what the hell

all the Wife Guys in all the world can't hold a candle to @joshgondelman.bsky.social , this is a beautiful thing

icymi i have a new sad boy ya book coming out next month and it would be cool if you wanted to preorder it or something

I just want to say that, as a former Laguna Beach watcher, it’s been kind of delightful to see Stephen Colletti be entirely less terrible than I’d imagined he might be on The Traitors. Charming, in fact.

Anyone have any dirt on Written?

I feel honored and delighted every day that I get to live a "structurally vanilla" life with @joshgondelman.bsky.social. That's my kink. playboy.substack.com/p/love-can-l...

TOMORROW NIGHT FREE W/RSVP* *considered canceling when @maris.bsky.social reminded “Michelle Malkin” exists but the show must go on…

Glad to see a piece finally address Edge. Also, not the point, but I remember when I thought “Jewish eugenicist” was an oxymoron.

Good morning. If your Mardi Gras plans don’t include wine and listening to @maris.bsky.social and I trying to list every media company we worked for that no longer exists, what are you even doing? Laissez les bons temps rouler, free with RSVP www.eventbrite.com/e/booklyn-ch...

Glad to see a piece finally address Edge. Also, not the point, but I remember when I thought “Jewish eugenicist” was an oxymoron.

If we’re talking about vibes-based adaptations that make a mockery of the source material, let me introduce you to this 2003 masterpiece.

A Democratic Party which allows Gavin Newsom to become the frontrunner for the election is a party which is not serious about change, justice, or bettering the lives of its constituency. He's the political equivalent of a stick of margarine left out on the counter for a couple of months.

I'm really excited to talk to @pjsauer.bsky.social on Tuesday evening at Heritage Wines in Fort Greene. I hope there will be plenty of wine-fueled airing of grievances. greenlightbookstore.com/event/2026-0...

I better not see this bitch on Dancing With the Stars

I got the galley with “Somebody Had to Do It” and I loved it. I can say this because I don’t have a job from which I could be fired. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/b...

I wrote about two excellent new novels, and I also definitively said no, that Wuthering Heights was not the Heated Rivalry of its time. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

As a Hachette author, one who has written an entire novel about book bans, this is so deeply disappointing and maddening. A publisher makes choices as to what to publish. Choosing not to offer on a book is NOT a ban. It is NOT censorship to say, we'll pass. Publishing a book is a CHOICE.

“I’m telling you this because right now, Hachette’s website is all about book bans: how wrong they are, and how readers like you can (and must) do your part to stop them.” @jaywillis.net on the hypocrisy of Hachette publishing noted book banner Sam Alito’s new book: open.substack.com/pub/ballsand...

It is getting worse here.

My rage fuels me. I grew up hearing from everyone that anger was bad for you, but what if it's not? What if it's the thing that you can hold onto that actually lights a fire under you, reminds you that change is possible if we create it and what if that gives you hope? That's how anger is a gift.

Once more, for others like me who are resentful that they’ve become armchair detectives.

This is extremely important hellgatenyc.com/amethyst-val...

Until last night I thought Kalshi was a cereal

Every study shows that being in a jail or prison, no matter how "nice" or whatever, shortens your lifespan. It does. So the government is taking years off the lives of people, including children, when it opts to put them in jail. www.propublica.org/article/life...

Tonight is the first and I assume last time I’ve cried for good reasons while watching football

Omg

The ad for Claude was creepy way before the therapist started talking about dating profiles. Who looks at that ad and says, my current mental health professional is a little too animated.

It is super weird whenever someone sets up a new Substack and I can't say I have regrets about ditching the platform at all

Kind of sad I had to turn off the medal ceremony because I was not in a good enough headspace to hear the national anthem.

The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.

This is not the point but Fabio was a cover model. That said, I hope Claude gets hit in the face with a pigeon. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

All the other mayors could be doing this if they wanted to

This is the first editorial job Indeed has contacted me about in months. Everything is terrible.

Brooklyn is still covered in snow and I really miss jaywalking

"I don’t know what to do with these names." @maris.bsky.social grapples with the questions on all our minds 🖤

"The fact that the latest drop of the Epstein files reveals that men in media who were accused of sexual misconduct turned around and enlisted the help of Epstein to fight back has me thinking twice about what 'MeToo has gone too far' really means."