A word on the prevalence and prominence of nonprofessional actors in some of the year's best movies, with a look back at precedents distant and recent (including Licorice Pizza): www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Cleopatra lived closer in time to 'yeet' being in the dictionary than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

In our ongoing quest to help the 3-year old understand wtf is going on in Minnesota right now - The Sweater by @larissatheule.bsky.social was a very sweet story of mutual aid and a community coming together to support a newcomer.

Happy #BookBirthday to THE SWEATER by Larissa Theule and illustrated by Teagan White! This beautiful picture book Illustrates the transformative role a community can play in caring for its members. With ✨five stars,✨ it is a powerful and poignant tale of compassion and acceptance.

Kids deserve to stay safe. When they are marching peacefully with their parents. When they are at school. When they are trying to learn and love and get through the day and do the right thing. In every country in the world. No matter their background, language, or beliefs. Kids deserve to stay safe.

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

Dear young readers, Sorry not sorry for all the extra reading, but you aren't going to want to miss any of these winning YMA titles. Check out the full list and max out your library holds. Sincerely, ALA ilovelibraries.org/article/2026... #ALAyma 📚💙

Don’t let go of anyone’s hand

‘Asterisk’ comes from a Geek word meaning “little star.” *Greek

You know what’s a really cute word? sundae

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

The review angels are being wonderfully kind and generous to The Sweater. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

GLASS: LOOKING IN, LOOKING OUT (@candlewickpress.bsky.social) by @larissatheule.bsky.social; illus. by Victoria Tentler-Krylov will receive a starred review in the January/February 2026 #HornBookMagazine. Congratulations! #HBMag #HBStars www.hbook.com/story/januar...

★ “Offering community care alongside space to heal is the gentle model animating” the picture book THE SWEATER, a “compassionate woodland tale” from Larissa Theule and illustrator Teagan White

is it finally mueller time

Boo.

Unless I absolutely must for professional reasons, I will not be watching your nuclear war movie. I will not be watching your incredibly bleak and depressing murder show. I will not be watching your artistic despair. It’s nothing personal, I just don’t order water when I’m already bailing my boat.

Remembering Ursula Le Guin on her birthday 🎂 📷 Dan Tuffs, 2005 "We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, & fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night."

Happy Book Birthday to @larissatheule.bsky.social & TOVE UNDER THE TREE!

Happy Book Birthday Dance to "Tove Under the Tree" written by @larissatheule.bsky.social and published by Candlewick Out in bookstores everywhere! And if you order from Books of Wonder, you can get free stickers!

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by P. C. Vey. #NewYorkerCartoons Get more cartoons and other funny stuff when you sign up for our humor newsletter: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/vKRskx

Pope Leo XIV: "I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor." "Dilexi te"

"Those who ban books want to lock away ideas they fear. But in truth, they are trying to steal our freedom." #BannedBooksWeek honorary chair @georgetakei.bsky.social encourages all of us to stand up for the freedom to read! #CensorshipIsSo1984 youtu.be/qwtzX15AKvQ?...

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this

“I’ll be 10 min late sorry!!!” -ashamed -fragile -unreliable “A thousand apologies. The relentless slog of time has overtaken my faculties.” -powerful -commanding -honest

In the weird, terrible moment we're all experiencing of contested reality / distorted reality / unreality, I was heartened by this wonderful Zach Helfand piece about the brilliant, heroic fact checkers of @newyorker. May they save civilization.

I think I'm a pretty good copy editor, and I'd say that an appropriate rate of response to copyediting should be 85 to 90 percent flat-out yes, 5 percent absolutely not, what are you thinking?, and the rest is Oh, interesting, let me do some improvements of my own.

There's no such thing as other people's children.

Right after "Don't use semicolons," "Don't use adverbs," "Don't use speech tags beyond 'said' and 'says,'" and "Don't ever use the word 'that,'" my favorite piece of writing advice is "Don't listen to people giving writing advice who only ever tell you not to do things."

Reading this was a real pick-me-up.

I think the central thesis is sort of ... the way you become better at helping is the same way you get better at lots of things, which is by trying, messing up, and listening to people who explain how you might do it better. And you will still screw up, and repeat the cycle.

ARCs! 💛

Soo excited for my new TBR pile! #ALAYMA

Kafka and the Doll on display at the Morgan Library as part of the Kafka exhibit.

I wrote about a Bechdel-like test that can help us consistently represent climate reality in kids book, because climate change is our new normal, and Earth’s youngest readers will never know world without it. Would love if you take a look. Thanks for having me, SLJ. www.slj.com/story/a-kid-...

I wrote about a Bechdel-like test that can help us consistently represent climate reality in kids book, because climate change is our new normal, and Earth’s youngest readers will never know world without it. Would love if you take a look. Thanks for having me, SLJ. www.slj.com/story/a-kid-...

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