Today on Twitch, join @girinathan.bsky.social @redford.bsky.social and @remas.bsky.social for another episode of Colossal Ponderings. Let's raise our status to the maximum. Watch live at 2 p.m. ET: www.twitch.tv/defectormedia

Tennis deserves better than these worthless metrics: defector.com/tennis-deser...

I wrote about Alex de Minaur, whose game and frame scream "underdog," but have lifted him to a spot above which only a few players remain: www.thesecondserve.com/alex-de-mina...

[billy joel voice] iiiiiim libbin’ out

someday a champion will use the trophy speech not to thank but to criticize the quality of ball kids. foot speed was poor. toss accuracy mid

it was clocking to me that bieber was standing on business but then will smith did the slap 🤣

Nobody told Vicky Mboko and Alex Eala they should be phoning it in. via @girinathan.bsky.social www.thesecondserve.com/an-october-s...

more on Mboko - Eala later but I remain convinced that the best tennis match is between two future stars with highly dubious serves

msrachelforlittles.... what about msrachelforbigs? what if james wiseman is in my house and very cranky?

NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products

I’ve been saying this! The writing’s so damn good that you don’t have to like tennis to love this book!

now that I’ve finished it, I can say @girinathan.bsky.social wrote one of the best sports books I’ve ever read, not because of access but because he is supernaturally talented at describing tennis, bodies, speech patterns, weather, rooms, vomiting, and other stuff bookshop.org/p/books/chan...

Honestly @girinathan.bsky.social could blog about Medvedev every day and I would always read it

I needed a newsy excuse to share the Kash Patel image that popped into my head unbidden a few months ago

fun convo about my book with alphonse pierre, one of my favorite music critics theleaks.substack.com/p/interview-...

kind of on edge watching wemby.. first jumpscare superstar

BOSTON: I'll be doing a panel at the Book Festival this weekend, come by Saturday @ 2pm

@girinathan.bsky.social Done. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Your “level” as a writer and observer is very, very high. To put it in that language, 9/10 or 10/10 on every page, plenty of 12/10s, and definitely no 2/10s. Congratulations!

they said sharia creep but it’s stevia creep

this was a lovely group jam defector.com/the-defector...

I wrote about D’Angelo defector.com/waiting-on-d...

“If you riff hard enough, you end up in the bedrock of shared humanity,” writes @girinathan.bsky.social in Defector. “At least if you’re as potent a riffer as Charles Portis.” A reader enters the hilarious and turbulent world of Portis’s 1979 gem The Dog of the South: defector.com/charles-port...

wild how much my household and imagination were enlivened once i switched out the voice in my ears all day to d’angelo from—all due respect, day one subscriber—nate dunca n

excellent blogs today at defector. good time to subscribe! defector.com/products

another satisfied customer

wrote about my first Charles Portis read. these lines will be bouncing around my head for years also I’ve finally figured out where @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social learned his tricks

on the absurd cousin vs. cousin final at the Shanghai Masters

I am in these nice books, writing about pain (grief) and pain (Thai food). Stories originally in @defector.com

It is finally time for somebody to say CITIZEN KANE is a good movie: defector.com/breaking-som...

finally got @girinathan.bsky.social book from the library. halfway thru it and i may now be fully tennis pilled. enough to bankrupt myself for a jan melbourne flight

I was fine with spam bots until they started talking like this

tired: Sincaraz wired: Tienvedev

I wrote about Bari Weiss as the grim future of mainstream media under billionaire control: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

excited to cover these desert Finals for Defector! a dispatch from the most crowded and eagerly awaited WNBA press conference I've ever been to... defector.com/the-hottest-...

Treasury Department has plans to mint dollar coin featuring Donald Trump's likeness: defector.com/treasury-dep...

lots going on here but my favorite part: photos the festival posted of Kevin Hart enjoying himsekf in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia defector.com/grim-visions...

Learner Tien appreciation club is booming

Heartbreaking that our up and coming authors are forced to slum with a den of beer-soaked rowdies simply to discuss literature

hilariously unlikely assortment of fellas - @davidjroth.bsky.social, @pjsauer.bsky.social, and me - in a Today Show segment this morning. also @michaelkosta.bsky.social but that's way less unlikely

Episode 97 of the @sportswritersinc.bsky.social podcast is up with @girinathan.bsky.social of @Defector.com, author of "Changeover: A Young Rivalry and a New Era of Men's #Tennis" Great talk! Do it up! Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/9... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6SGV...

starting a new frozen yogurt venture with james harden

this is tomorrow! rsvp here: www.mcnallyjackson.com/giri-nathan-...

My hold on The Changeover by @girinathan.bsky.social came in this morning and I've already LOL'ed 3 times in the first chapter. Great stuff. #tennis

Just asked my library to purchase One of the Boys by @dirtbagqueer.rocks , Changeover by @girinathan.bsky.social , and Clodia of Rome by @dougboin.bsky.social . Mostly because I want to read them, but maybe someone else will too. Support your local library!

It's just "Let's Remember Some Guys" defector.com/its-just-let...

[Drake voice] Comptrolla

loved talking about this haunted, intricate table tennis novel. definitely go read UNDERSPIN defector.com/e-y-zhao-und...

eyeblack, my newsletter where I document my research on sports, climate, and transportation has 117 subs already! I'm floored, thank you. But now that you've let me into your inbox, like the sinners from Sinners, I've developed an insatiable hunger for more. Could we get to 150 today?

nice review of CHANGEOVER in @sportsillustrated.bsky.social www.si.com/onsi/serve/n...