Turns out a Yiddish language intensive really is the best way for me to stay offline But while I am here briefly, please please subscribe to @flaminghydra.com! All cylinders really firing over there, and very proud to be a contributing writer there.

June's Crime & Mystery column is up, reviewing new books by Caitlin Mullen (HEATHER is truly brilliant, cannot stop thinking about it), Amy Bloom, Martin Walker, and Jo Firestone.

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So the reason I will be way more scarce here is that I start a Yiddish language intensive class at @yivoinstitute.bsky.social on Monday! (Technically it is my first language, actual mameloshen, but I've never done formal classwork before.) Very excited to immerse myself in the program for 6 weeks.

I haven't been able to stop thinking about @katewagner.wehwalt.net's most recent essay, and if you haven't had a chance to read it yet, make the time to do so.

has anyone lived the dream more than this guy?

Why were there so many novelty disco songs and were any of them actually good

Never has "it's hard to fathom" landed with such force

Called it

WHEW

A great piece by Sarah. Also, @flaminghydra.com is turning out to be dynamite. So worth the few bucks a month they are asking for great pieces of writing.

The startling new relevance of David Fincher's 2007 ZODIAC, insightful criticism by @sarahweinman.com flaminghydra.com/issue-586/

Here is a gift link to the essay: flaminghydra.com/on-zodiac-20...

Oooh I really liked this, the invocation of male loneliness epidemic feels earned and made me think even more about the ways this logically led Fincher into The Social Network.

Here is a gift link to the essay: flaminghydra.com/on-zodiac-20...

TODAY: @sarahweinman.com on David Fincher's 2007 film Zodiac, and why it may work even better now than when it first came out. "If the Zodiac case is the abyss, so many men end up looking straight into it." flaminghydra.com/issue-586/#f...

My latest @flaminghydra.com essay is on rewatching ZODIAC almost twenty years after its release, being worried it didn't hold up and discovered a) it still rules b) it might be the movie for our current moment? flaminghydra.com/issue-586/

bless you, @musicologyduck.bsky.social, for chronicling something that by rights shouldn't be happening but of course is

Was out all day at the beach so didn't actually check this but if someone did, I need a report ASAP

Rape and misogyny don't care about your politics, and also, no one deserves to be raped.

Rep. AOC posts new photo on Instagram celebrating the Knicks alongside Mayor Zohran Mamdani

We needed this. Just savoring the moment.

utterly wild to think the last time the Knicks won John Lindsay was mayor and Abe Beame was about to replace him

Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.

MAMDANI! The Musical it's a sure thing

The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao

Went back to the park to catch the end of it and the vibes were unreal. New York Fucking City, the greatest in the world.

Vibes at the neighborhood watch party were pretty good but sitting on a blanket on concrete has its limits alas

LEGEND

already was anti-billionaire now I have to be anti-trillionaire too

Another data point for "Perpetual 2016"

RIP to one of the greatest, truly, to ever do it. The Louis Vuitton retrospective last year was spectacular.

If the Knicks win then the line out the door at Barney Greengrass on Sunday is going to be insane

"Turn it off and on again" hits different when you're the pope

Seeing so many romantic comedy mystery novels lately (and yes, I get why) so maybe "rom-crime" is the proper portmanteau

NOIR CITY coming back to NYC!!

William T. Vollmann (!) reviewed the latest James Ellroy, which I had to stop reading because I really did not like how he wrote about one of my all-time favorite singers, Judy Henske. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/b...

If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

Caught it late and it was truly worth beholding

Soon I will be spending less time here and so I better get my book recommendations in: ANGEL DOWN took a big stylistic risk and wow did it ever pay off, totally deserved the Pulitzer You can never go wrong reading Edith Wharton (my favorite of the four novellas I read recently was THE TOUCHSTONE)

Maybe it* will happen on Monday *booing. So much booing. Staggering levels of booing the likes of which have not been seen in eons

I have...many thoughts (almost none about Brunson himself lol)

Great thread, also thinking about it in the context of the Fawcett Gold Medal/pulp fiction of the midcentury. What was disposable then is classic now, and forget this at your peril.

oh nooooo

Thinking, once again, for no reason, how leftist spaces in the past were almost always undone by misogyny and creepy (or worse) behavior towards women

Very big news at the paper! www.nytco.com/press/defini...

Apparently it's newsworthy to know what crime novels (plus one nonfiction book) the Long Island Serial Killer is reading while still in jail

What a staggering loss. RIP Marjane Satrapi.

Sometimes you really gotta love the Internet, or particularly, whoever put together an entire playlist of vintage Highland Appliance commercials www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...