My buddy Ian from the park wrote a beautiful essay about sandwiches and seizures. www.thestopgap.net/skate-trip/

My buddy Ian from the park wrote a beautiful essay about sandwiches and seizures. www.thestopgap.net/skate-trip/

I wrote down a couple of thoughts on what it’s like to be a writer on a Green Card right now. www.thestopgap.net/what-its-lik...

Until last summer it was an American’s constitutional right not to have their noncitizen spouse deported without due process. I genuinely and dumbly believed yr rights mattered like a lot

US Park Service pulls human rights activist Pauli Murray page after Trump’s 2-gender order www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

If I were still a weekly critic I’d be pitching an article rn about all the new books and movies about letting yourself be slowly eaten alive by a creature

The Persian poet Ferdowsi described a prince who, shielded by Truth, rode horseback through fire without coming to harm. www.thestopgap.net/tuesday-obit...

Here’s something I wrote in 2019 about how hard it is to repair what trump is breaking newrepublic.com/article/1543...

I thought a god-botherer was bothering god but now I find it’s people who bother you about god in the street

Nytletter.com we really made it clear

In case you were thinking that kids in NYC were, somehow, safe from all this hellgatenyc.com/nyu-langone-...

Fashion?! God it pisses me off how the nice liberals joined the “xyz has gone too far” backlash in order to feel culturally normal and now are panicking over the mystery

Legend

A star!!!

Melt Julep Superfecta: a series of digital and analog photographs from the 2024 Kentucky Derby. Also for @jolivingstone.bsky.social at the the Stopgap. www.thestopgap.net/melt-julep-s...

2024 ᴀʀᴛᴡᴏʀᴋ ʀᴇᴄᴀᴘ (reverse chrono): Summer Camera Diary September for The Stopgap, editor @jolivingstone.bsky.social www.thestopgap.net/on-the-stree...

Today I sat in on a friend’s doctoral defense and one of the examiners was a historian who, having absorbing that hauntology was part of her argument, tried angrily for 30 mins to get her to admit that ghosts aren’t real. She did a fake “ok you got me!” concession & he was like fab lets move on

tech reporters you have new obligations that I’m not sure you’re equipped to meet

Big problem going on with the pronunciation of ‘corset’

Do republicans like Neil young. Genuinely

Happy Gawain day freaks

Today I am insanely excited to publish wind turbine discourse www.thestopgap.net/slower-than-...

Just me and charlotte on Lorrie Moore (shockingly negative) and Scholastique Mukasonga (strong endorsement) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

I need a timesaving prefab stamp that says “why didn’t you tell me ben whishaw was in it”

The reading committee and I are hugely proud to give you the 2024 NBCC longlist for nonfiction:

The NBCC has been around for 50 years and for the first time we are releasing our longlists. I chair nonfiction and that’ll come in a couple of days. Criticism first people.com/national-boo...

It’s Shon Faye on Germaine Greer on Reading Writers podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

An insightful and cozy listen (in my opinion) thanks to the elegant, meditative quality of Lovia's thoughts

Today I am insanely excited to publish wind turbine discourse www.thestopgap.net/slower-than-...

Marie NDiaye Lovia Gyarkye Charlotte Shane Më podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

I just spent two hours looking for my keys. They were in a fucking boot

Does anyone agree with me yet that Oppenheimer is rubbish

Reading Writers is the best fiction pod because each episode begins "so what have you been reading?"

It’s my HONOR to have the stunning friend Lovia Gyarkye talking about Marie NDiaye on Reading Writers :’) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

No tool can make battle with the horrific whistling sound my teeth make while speaking apparently

Thursday

A propos of nothing, sharing my favorite @jolivingstone.bsky.social essay from the (previous) Trump Era about why we should — and also how not to — write cultural criticism in the (this time) Trump Era. newrepublic.com/article/1409...

;-) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

It’s time to listen to reading writers! With @jolivingstone.bsky.social, as always, and our incredibly thoughtful guest @ositanwanevu.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

I have a podcast! With @jolivingstone.bsky.social! Featuring guests! We talk about books and reading and make each other laugh. It’s called Reading Writers and can be found in the usual places. (Also, I’m addicted to the theme song.) open.spotify.com/episode/3H8U...

Alert! Use the form within to submit your own best of The Hairpin—we're doing a canon and an archive. The Hairpin Canon: An Attribution Project www.thestopgap.net/best-of-the-...