“13 percent of The Best American Poetry is composed of poems by past or future editors of The Best American Poetry.” Or, how a dude who arbitrarily hated Adrienne Rich used academic garbagetongue to trash up and dumb down an art. The palace intrigue of the poetry world by @nicksturm.bsky.social

CBS News is giving up the power it has to hold “Face the Nation” interviewees to account. Following pressure from Trump, it has agreed not to edit interviews, even to remove false statements or propaganda uttered by political operatives and officials, or add explanatory context.

If anyone (@thebaffler.com @nplusonemag.com @publicbooks.bsky.social) might be interested in an article offering an ideological post-mortem of almost four decades of The Best American Poetry anthology as a conservative publishing project, I'm yr guy.

Thank you @adrianequinlan.bsky.social for talking to me about my obsessive live-streaming of SimCity 2013. You can read the whole thing here: www.curbed.com/article/inte... and then JOIN ME when I play tomorrow. You can click and set a reminder to watch here: bit.ly/4kcriiK

You: a person who made the leap, and rented an apartment from someone you were *already* friends with. I want to ask you about that tenant/landlord relationship. The crushing demand of feeding their cat. The fear that they'd come down and... bring you cookies. Happy to keep you anon. DM me!

I saw my idol's name appear in the documents, did a search, called, and she picked up on the second ring. As I thought she might. As she'd written about doing in essay after essay: the phone as lifeline. "Hellooo?" As if I might be "Leonard," "Rhoda," Ann. www.curbed.com/article/trul...

They chartered the boat, bopping island to island with no human contact, creating an alternate society. Or at least that's what I hoped before I clicked through... www.mysuncoast.com/2025/04/23/d...

My son’s public school education has educated him on Easter — but sparingly. Today he drew a “rabbit cracking out of an egg.”

Misericordia is a mid student film and y’all would realize that if it wasn’t in French and set in a stunning “village.”

My ideal food diary is a breakfast bowl created from all the leftovers available in a rich bath of hot sauce, a daytime fast broken by a 6pm buttered popcorn, and a late dinner that contains the only nutrients my body will get.

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I need an oral history of working at the FreshDirect warehouse on the night that New Yorkers started hoarding fine olive oil and coffee at pre tariff prices.

The year of bat mitzvahs was a silent meditation retreat compared to the year of fortieth birthday parties.

Finally earned the New York Scout badge where you loudly yell “People are walking here, asshole!!” at a driver illegally plowing through a crosswalk. Bonus stripe for cursing right outside a daycare.

I wrote about James Baldwin’s career as a freelance journalist for Liberties. libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

Me and Tom Colicchio on America: “I just don’t think it’s Maple forward enough.”

a couple days left to see this wonderful show on cooperative housing in nyc designed by herman jessor, one of the most influential, yet unsung, architects in the city. cooper.edu/architecture...

TIL Eartha Kitt's career suffered after a White House "ladies" lunch she spoke out against the Vietnam War and made the first lady cry. "Mrs. Johnson, you are a mother too... I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my guts. I have a baby and then you send him off to war."

NEW: The Supreme Court *will not* take up casino mogul Steve Wynn's bid to overturn the landmark free press ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan. The case, Wynn v. Associated Press, No. 24-829, was denied with no noted dissents or statements. #SCOTUS

Commercial leasing up 61%?!?!

Toni Morrison on why I still watch Love is Blind.

I grew up on LI, hearing that East New York was the most dangerous part of Brooklyn. I didn’t know that the scheme to ruin it was hatched a mile from my house. For @thenation.com, I wrote about a new book that traces the repercussions of the conspiracy: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Pictures: Forty-seven signs spotted at anti-Trump/Musk protests around the world reut.rs/41S2FAZ

“Gavin Stamp was clever at coining names for the plethora of bastardized substyles that proliferated during the interwar British building boom, [like] Pseudish, a Mediterranean-cum-Cape Dutch mishmash favored by nouveau riche sorts.” —Martin Filler

"The paper in Granger’s native Fort Worth, by contrast, no longer has a full-time D.C. reporter. And the big outlet in nearby Dallas has shrunk its own presence precipitously" from 11 reporters to just one -- www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Don’t throw stones www.facebook.com/marketplace/...

Thrilled to tell you all that Twitter — I mean, X — is currently down.

Like artists taking over SoHo in the 1970s, but less fun. “One of Musk’s top lieutenants and his wife and young child have shacked up on the 6th floor of our agency and they are living there.”

“We will never capitulate.” 90 days later… www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/b...

I’m worried that I’m turning into a Disney adult because Jennifer Hudson singing Circle of Life brought tears streaming from my eyes as I considered the illogical achievements of humanity despite the inevitability of death. youtu.be/5uOd1JS6ouo?...

If you want to know why families are leaving NYC en masse, look at Alec Baldwin, who somehow can't fit seven children, four dogs, four cats, and an army of nannies in a 6,000 square foot penthouse duplex that's gobbled up the its neighbors. My "deep dive" lol www.curbed.com/article/alec...

INVESTIGATION: Clearing the trains at the end of the line is the most important part of the city's homeless outreach effort underground. But the NYPD wasn't doing it at Coney Island in the months before Debrina Kawam's horrific death. -- nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/03/03/i...

The house the tabloids spent years laughing at is getting its due. www.curbed.com/article/anor...

My mom was going to sign up just to watch the Oscars at my apartment but the page had a 404 error, so we were forced to pirate it instead and saw the whole show with no issues.

Will have more Oscars content later. But for now, here's my post game analysis of how Anora defied the doubters and won Best Picture: www.vulture.com/article/why-...

hulu collapsing during the oscars is a collision of both ways streaming broke communal entertainment sean baker gives speech about how streaming has disrupted film as a communal experience (physical space) meanwhile, hulu stops working and breaks the tv communal space (simultaneous experience)

Let's end with the periodic reminder that the Oscars take place in a mall.

One year before NO OTHER LAND wins: www.theguardian.com/film/2024/ma...

I can’t tell if this is a paid Amazon spot or a funeral dirge. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

A group of mostly Quaker religious organizations succeeded in temporarily preventing federal immigration agents from operating around their places of worship across the U.S.

After you publish an unvarnished story, you get two phone calls: someone who loved feeling seen, and someone who hated how they came across. That second person sometimes sends an email to the boss — or files a suit. This would give them all the power: www.courthousenews.com/trump-megado...

If parents find out about stuff on Instagram, is it bad for things made for kids to be designed to catch attention on Instagram? And at SPACE CLUB, where the kids are having a blast... does that even matter? www.curbed.com/article/cj-h...

The real star of the new Amy Schumer movie is this Anne Sexton poem. allpoetry.com/poem/8505473...

New Orleans, where the most powerful religious institution fired good samaritans who feed the hungry and refused to fund the result of their sex crimes. abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

Help journalists afford to keep paying rent in the city so we can keep covering — *checks notes* — luxury housing! @NYMagUnion is back in bargaining tomorrow! sign our reader pledge to support us!! nymagunion.org/reader-pledge

“Audacious.” What the fuck are these people doing.

The Substance is The Clouds of Silas Maria for dumb people. #assayascore

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I was doing an Eavesdropper at Columbia during the protests and heard a student waiting in the security line talk about how he wasn’t annoyed by the disruption because he appreciated the chance to see what he would never see in his own country, Singapore. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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