“AI giant Anthropic ran a massive program called Project Panama where they spent tens of millions of dollars to hoover up used books, which they then sliced, scanned, and pulped.”

I’m adding “Olympic hopeful” to my bio. I have no athletic talent, look terrible in spandex, and would be considered a geriatric competitor by the next Olympic Games, but one can always be hopeful.

Please beware of scammers using my name. They are offering artists interviews in BOMB as a pretense to get them to download some sketchy AI software called NexBee. More details in the image below. Stay safe out there!

Emergency supplies for the snow storm?

You know what's actually a threat to "masculine values"? Claiming that a Boy Scout with a rainbow-colored neckerchief slider is "detrimental to national security."

“Every time someone walked in, they commented on the smell, as if it were off-gassing depression.”

Helped my daughter finish a hidden picture worksheet, and now I'll never sleep again.

Saturday was a doubleheader of kid birthday parties. I decompressed at the jewelry making station.

"Is it broken, or is it still unbroken?" Still wrapping my mind around this koan from my 5yo during a game of 20 questions, but I'm pretty sure the answer relates to our current democracy.

"In journalism, you take muddy ideas and try to clarify them for the reader; a powerful thing you can do in fiction is take assumptions—things people thought were clear—and muddy them up." — @knguyen.bsky.social absolutely crushing it on @thedailyshow.com (!!!) www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Closing out the week with @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social

I grind my teeth every time I have to omit the serial comma in Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Happy pub day to the glorious new collection GOOD AND EVIL AND OTHER STORIES by Samanta Schweblin and translated by Megan McDowell! Get your copy from @bookshop.org or your local heroic bookstore. bookshop.org/p/books/good...

The fall issue of BOMB launched today, and it’s a stunner! bombmagazine.org/magazine/173/

Be still my heart.

For BOMB's staff picks, I recommended THE RED HANDLER by Johan Harstad (@openletterbooks.bsky.social), a supremely inventive crime novel—or maybe it's fictional meta-crimefiction? Find more excellent picks from my wonderful colleagues at @bombmag.bsky.social! bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr.

I’ll never be a stage mom, but I am proud to be a pizzeria-napkin-dispenser dad.

Did artificial intelligence make these chips?

One time, when I was a kid, Teddy Ruxpin told me he loved me. ... That took me by surprise. That felt... vulnerable and deep.

Everyone needs to read BOTH/AND from @thedennemichele.bsky.social and @electricliterature.com, and I'm thrilled to recommend it as a Staff Pick for @bombmag.bsky.social. bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

I recommended FLOWER, Ed Atkins's "anti-memoir" for @bombmag.bsky.social's staff picks! bombmagazine.org/articles/202... @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

Man making trillions off his fraud and theft and lying machine warns of people using his fraud and theft and lying machine to commit fraud

👏 👏 Many congratulations to @mattweinstock.com, the winner of @bombmag.bsky.social's 2025 Fiction Contest, and of our extraordinary finalists! 👏 👏 bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

One of the most embarrassing things about parenting is when you’re asked to sing the ABCs for the 10th time in a row, and you decide to jazz it up a bit.

The real kicker is that all this stuff will ruin lives and kill people, but the billionaires it's enriching won't even have a discernable quality of life difference because they already have infinity money.

I’m in a doctor’s office waiting room where they’re playing a jazzy piano rendition of “Stairway to Heaven” and I think it qualifies as malpractice.

"Men were created in order to destroy everything, and women were created so there would be one thing they couldn’t destroy." — @catherinelacey.bsky.social‬'s The Möbius Book bombmagazine.org/articles/202... @fsgbooks.bsky.social @bombmag.bsky.social

"Optimism is an important accomplice." — architect Gabriela Carrillo in BOMB's summer issue @bombmag.bsky.social

“A well-controlled, nature-like garden is filled with human sin.” —Hiroshi Sugimoto in @bombmag.bsky.social's summer issue.

Here is an excellent, incredibly touching reminder of how important -- life-saving -- LGBTQIA+ books can be for readers. Everyone deserves access to them. #PrideInOurBooks

Come celebrate with us! bombmagazine.org/events/summe...

Truth or Dare should replace Q&As at book launches and readings.

"I’m a Bronx girl. Trump should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast. Respectfully." — @aoc.bsky.social

Happy pub day to Sebastian Castillo's FRESH, GREEN LIFE! Read Crow Jonah Norlander's review in BOMB's summer Editor's Choice section and then get your copy. @sebastiancastillo.bsky.social @crowjonah.com @bombmag.bsky.social‬

It's Election Day, NYC! Be sure to use out election hub, where you can find all our explainers and tools so you're all set to cast your ballot. buff.ly/uvfkhZ7

"The world is a shit show, but the rabbits are still rabbiting about outside." — @jenkabat.bsky.social in her interview with Laura Marris in @Bombmag.bsky.social's summer issue. @milkweededitions.bsky.social

Americans are always overcompensating: We have the biggest trucks, the highest debt, and our passport applications allow you to claim that you're TEN FEET TALL.

I've never met the owner of this car, and yet I'm certain that we're soulmates.

"I believe that there are parts of us that are secret even to ourselves, and art can be a vehicle to bring those parts out and into the world." — Ocean Vuong in his interview with Björk in @Bombmag.bsky.social's summer issue. @penguinpress.bsky.social

I can only assume that this doctor's office has patients who speak Old and Middle English now.

"As crazy as I felt back then, I knew I still had a ways to go before I lost my mind completely." Read this cheekily postmodern story from Ed Park's AN ORAL HISTORY OF ATLANTIS in the latest issue of BOMB. bombmagazine.org/articles/202... @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @bombmag.bsky.social

"With climate change, we’re going to have to make a lot of sacrifices. But who gets asked to make those sacrifices? How do we pay them back? And how do we understand those sacrifices? " — @jenkabat.bsky.social in @Bombmag.bsky.social's summer issue. @milkweededitions.bsky.social

“It is horrifying that we have normalized family separation to the point that there’s a standard bilingual poster for it on the walls of the interview room and detention rooms in federal immigration courthouses.” — @bradlander.bsky.social

Illinois has enshrined protections to meet this very moment. In a time of increasing overreach and hateful rhetoric, it's more important than ever to reaffirm our commitment to the rights and dignity of the LGBTQ+ community. You have a home here always.

“It’s not that I want you to die,” the ghost says, floating its Monopoly piece four places, “I just think it’s important for you to try new things.” — Rose Keating's haunting and mesmerizing story "Oddbody" @simonandschuster.bsky.social @bombmag.bsky.social

Grateful to @catherineweiss.bsky.social‬ for the opportunity to publish her poems—and this GIF of a guy doinking off the propeller of the Titanic. bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

"My brave compatriots and I await the orders to approach a moderately busy intersection in the shopping district of a mid-sized American city to confront a force of as many as eleven or twelve of the enemy, all cleverly disguised as 'dishwashers,' 'nannies,' and 'landscapers.'" buff.ly/E8hjuAF

Every time someone writes a smug poorly-argued AI article like this, they’re simply demonstrating how swiftly AI has already transformed said writer’s critical thinking into a rotten log on the forest floor, studded with grubs and slime mold, gently disintegrating into humus even as we watch.