I know people are still squeamish and want to return to some fantasy status quo. That’s over. We’re in new territory now and things are going to be unpleasant. The entry level position at this point is putting these motherfuckers in jail for the rest of their natural lives.

Wrote a bit about the anniversary of the fires, and about the erosion of collective memory for @thr.com www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/local-n...

Leave it to the ‘lab to have given us the Marxist banger I needed to hear today

Two things can be true: 1. This is a criminal and immoral act by the US. 2. That's it. Nothing else matters.

Not sure how any of us in this cursed fucking country live with ourselves, or what one can possibly say that is both remotely honest and won’t land one on a list. My God, what a thing to wake up to.

Co-sign this. Lou’s stuff is the best

You will be visited by three spirits

Merry Xmas, y’all #SpacemenTree

If you want to spark some trans joy on such a scary day, may I suggest www.transanta.com? Let's get holiday gifts for trans kids. You can pick a registry and send a gift directly or donate to them and they'll make the magic happen.

Episode 5 is where I bail out of this show I’ve been watching against my better judgment, thanks

Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station

Now online- “Fracking for Cool”, an essay I wrote for the companion booklet of Amalia Ulman's film “Magic Farm” earlier this year - on Vice, ZIRP-era media, and hipster globalization. Also see the film if you haven't already; truly one of the year's best borderstudies.substack.com/p/fracking-f...

Yep. More about this here: archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....

Noah Baumbach’s None of That Jazz. Oof.

Happy to note that this book truly, truly rules.

She got a GREAT ASS, Charlie Brown.

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Ordinarily I refrain from dunking on this sort of thing because why bother, but for God's sake:

My reflections on the month of October and why it’s my Jack Kerouac and Chet Baker month. Also, what I am reading and you should read, too. Oh, and my favorite horror films. Mentioned: @lukeoneil47.bsky.social @jasondiamond.bsky.social @specktor.bsky.social billshea.com/2025/10/29/u...

You mean it wasn’t actually like this?

I’m watching an illegal stream of the game on tik tok and the host has to use filters to keep the feed up so im consuming this hell game like this fyi

Guess I picked the right night to be totally destroyed by jet lag so I could enjoy a relaxing eighteen innings of easygoing small hours baseball, just as the good lord intended

I did not enjoy writing this; it can't even serve as an ad for my newsletter, which I've suspended due to an overbilling situation that has me almost regretting leaving Substack. But, you know, it's evidence for the piece I just didn't get to include. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...

10/23/78: Stories of John Cheever Stellar collection bagged well deserved Pulitzer Standouts incl The Swimmer (later film w/Burt Lancaster) [ @specktor.bsky.social "the fevered delirium of suburbia in decline"] & our favorite Goodbye, My Brother More via @tcboyle.com: www.npr.org/2006/08/17/5...

Very excited to be in conversation about SQUIMBOP with the great @specktor.bsky.social in LA this coming Tues -- we started the conversation several years ago, w/r/t DODGE CITY 2: @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social @southwestreview.bsky.social @1111press.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

Every half inning of Mariners baseball

Loved writing this for the good folks at @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social

Really looking forward to this, on Tuesday night! Eastsiders, come through! (And don't forget to RSVP at the link . . . it's free)

Been in Los Angeles less than 24 hours and six people have asked if I’ve seen One Battle After Another and my response is “I’m on book tour. My life is one battle after another.” Anyways. I’m talking with my king of LA @specktor.bsky.social, at Skylight tonight. I’m so psyched.

Good all-the-time record really. But Andrew, as usual, is on point here

Can’t get the first guy in this clip out of my head, frankly. The best kind of Italian

“They own the legal system” really makes you wonder both what world these people are presently living in and whether they just forgot the multiple sets of parentheses around the “they” here

Tomorrow night I’ll be at @skylightbooks.bsky.social with my pal @jasondiamond.bsky.social to discuss his rad, rad novel Kaplan’s Plot and we’d love it if you’d come through (Sandy Koufax possibly not included, tho we live in hope)

plenty of things going against the right globally: Bolsonaro's conviction in Brazil, the defeat of the right wing in Norway's election, the student strikes and Saba Saba protests in Kenya (brutal as the repression there was), the EU's von der Leyen pursuing sanctions and trade suspension for Israel

No paywall on this LAT article (for once).

We can acknowledge this without abandoning these people to a white supremacist police state! Please imagine something beyond punishment.

Wrote about American Gigolo and the rise of the Armani Era for @gqmagazine.bsky.social www.gq.com/story/how-gi...

LA friends: I'll be in conversation with the wonderful Matthew Specktor (The Golden Hour) re SHE'S UNDER HERE at Skylight Books in Los Feliz, Tues 9/16 at 7 pm. Do come out and say hi! On Sun 9/28 at 4pm, I'll sit down w/my pal Samantha Dunn (Failing Paris) at Diesel in Brentwood. It'll be fun!

Edition Release News. Please Share. lisajanepersky.bigcartel.com Debbie Harry, Goddess In The Hair-Light Moon Offered for the 1st time. Taken by Persky in the "Blondie loft." Signed, numbered edition of 10. From the original b&w negative, lovingly digitized and colored by LJP ©Lisa Jane Persky 1975

The quote is from @specktor.bsky.social's extraordinary book. Buy it *now*!: tinhouse.com/book/always-...

HBD to the magnificent Tuesday Weld, who’s incandescent even in the (alas) terrible A Safe Place, truly

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

look I'm not myself a political scientist so I can't say what effects it would have for a spate of politicians to crop up saying "the enemy is the oligarchy" and "the enemy is billionaires" while swinging a kettlebell but I think we should try it for science and see what happens

Gav’s a tool, obviously, but: LFG

Sums it up well 🧵

Looking forward to being in conversation with Nicholas in a few weeks myself. Bay Area folks you should go to this (you can snag a signed copy of The Golden Hour while you’re there, along with Nick’s book)

"Some immigration experts and community activists cite the organized resistance in L.A. as another reason the numbers of ICE arrests were lower in California than in Texas and even lower than dozens of states by percentage of population."

8/10/70: Diary of a Mad Housewife D Frank Perry/W Eleanor Perry w/Richard Benjamin, Carrie Snodgress, Frank Langella @kinolorber.com blu w/ @larrythek.bsky.social commentary More @specktor.bsky.social: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/07... @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/goings-on-ab...