Has anyone else noticed the doubling (possibly tripling) of advertising on podcasts?

A Christmas poem. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55886/...

John McGahern is an unexpected antidote for grief.

www.nybooks.com/articles/202... Jed Perl has ALOT to say about Andrea Long Chu, and very little of it is good. I’m still not entirely sure why…

I’m at the point in my year that being in the middle of the ocean with 5000 people I don’t know, don’t care about and can happily ignore sounds like a version of luxury.

IG really is just a wealth porn site.

Another odd NYRB portrayal of a female figure. Unity Mitford chose Fascism because she was the least attractive Mitford? www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

For this week’s cover of the magazine, the cartoonist Tom Gauld suggests a novel form of light therapy for the winter months: exposure to the warming rays of a work of art. #NewYorkerCovers

Russell Hoban was born 100 years ago. Riddley Walker, his post-apocalyptic novel from 1980, is a stunning work, its dialect poetry--a book that teaches you to read it as you go along. That's just the start; see also Kleinzeit (1974), Pilgermann (1983), & Emmett Otter!

And suddenly it feels like home!

Paula Modersohn-Becker, Self-Portrait with Two Flowers in Her Raised Left Hand, 1907 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137757

The new @rememberthispod.bsky.social season begins tonight at midnight Eastern Time! Make sure you're subscribed and set to download new episodes wherever you get your podcasts, and catch up with our 30 minute preview episode from last month: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Wintertime pleasures: going to an art museum and spending a few hours looking at artwork. This is from the Paula Modersohn-Becker: I Am Me exhibit at the Art Institute.

Does anyone else feel like The Millions Book Preview is THE ONE that matters? #booksky

@dieworkwear.bsky.social Would love to know if you've seen the Gustave Caillebotte exhibition that's about to close at the Musée d'Orsay?

How did I forget how wonderful Yuri Herrera is?

Miss MacIntosh had some strong words for Phillies’ favorite Founding Father. Our reading project continues. open.substack.com/pub/missmaci... #bookhub

Interesting pairing.

"Killian was a humanist of a sort, re-centering the individual experience on a site premised on selling to the collective." @taracheesman.bsky.social on Kevin Killian's "Selected Amazon Reviews" www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/kevi...

I’m on an Alba de Cespedes reading binge and this review from @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social of Forbidden Notebook is excellent. lareviewofbooks.org/article/i-wa...

Two books I bought pre-Christmas. The Labyrinth House Murders, which I was really excited about, was disappointing. 😕 The third in a series, the mysteries have become formulaic & a bit predictable. Hoping The Black Swan will better - it’s my first Tetsuya Ayukawa mystery.

This looks great.

I think legacy media needs to start treating video games as a legitimate art form. That means publishing critical essays on specific titles and franchises, like they would on a film or book.

I wrote about Kevin Killian’s Selected Amazon Reviews for @clereviewbooks.bsky.social , trying to work out why they are remarkable. www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/kevi... #booksky #killian

One of the most important books of 2025–Stephanie Anderson’s new WOMEN IN INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING, a collection of interviews mapping so much uncovered ground in small press literary publishing. www.unmpress.com/978082636707...

The list is here: These are the books we’re most anticipating in 2025.

As The New Yorker prepares for its 100th anniversary, we’re proud to join with Alfred A. Knopf to publish two celebratory collections curated from a century of groundbreaking fiction and poetry, coming February 4, 2025. Pre-order your copies here: nyer.cm/Rc0hPsg

A good mail day with Karla Kelsey / Winter Editions and Kathryn Davis / Graywolf Press.

Unexpectedly brilliant Christmas gift!

If we get out of work early, I am going to the bookstore.

I know we’re supposed to ride or die for A Muppet Christmas Carol but I knew Drew and I were made for each other when I learned his family also considers Emmett Otter’s Jug Band Christmas an indispensable viewing tradition.

My husband put in a video doorbell and the number of people who wander around my neighborhood all day long, apparently independently wealthy, retired, un- or self- employed, is a true revelation. Am I jealous. Yes. Yes I am.

I’m really enjoying everyone’s Christmas book stacks.

something I just realized when talking about Nosferatu: it’s like going to see a Shakespeare play. You know the story. You just want to see what they’re doing with it this time.

I’m coveting Wallace & Gromit’s entire cheese-centric library 📚

I’m thinking this might be a good companion book to my Alba de Céspedes reading list.

I would buy a ticket.

Lot’s of weird plot holes in Red One. Also, the ending was anticlimactic.

The complete set of Strangers Press’ Keshiki - new voices from Japan was in my Christmas stocking. #booksky 🇯🇵 #booksintranslation @strangerspress.bsky.social

Four friends. Three forthcoming titles each. Too bad one of the co-hosts CHEATED…

Just uttered the sentence, “Santa is still watching!”

Some titles I’m looking forward to in the New Year. #booksky

2025 is looking pretty good for books.

New translation of a 1988 classic Japanese mystery book. I love this brand of murder and mayhem for Christmas. #booksky #honkakumystery

Wrote about some December books in translation for @wwborders.bsky.social! wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Our current bestsellers 🎅⁣ lrb.me/6jh

These two lists by The Cambridge Ladies Dining Society are both filled with excellent recommendations. I added so many of the books to my TBR list. open.substack.com/pub/akennedy... #booksky

"I intend to build a five-story mixed-use complex, thereby making the town more prosperous and accessible while relieving our strained housing market. But these NIMBY cocoa-snorters would rather that space be used for their favorite Christmas tree lot."

Playing Dragon Age Veilguard on husband’s computer. One of his friends jumps into channel to talk. I can’t figure out how to leave & yell to my husband that his friend is on & keeps talking to me & I don’t know how to get out… not realizing the mike was on the whole time. 😳