I am so grateful, in a world with seemingly less and less book coverage every day, that @lithub.com.web.brid.gy exists. If you're grateful too, maybe you'll consider becoming a member? lithub.memberful.com/join

My latest podcast episode is about one of my favorite books, Laughing in the Hills. It's about so many things: the Italian renaissance, Medici humanism, Native American philosophy, grief, work, nature, technology, chaos, order, chance, and also - fishing.

I love how every time someone tries to describe the worst possible outcomes from universal health care they accidentally describe the current outcomes from health insurance for most Americans

In my latest episode, writer Peter Alson joins me and some listeners for a poker game and tells us stories from his life and career, including one about his uncle - Norman Mailer - enlisting his help in a failed baseball betting coup.

In my latest episode, writer Peter Alson joins me and some listeners for a poker game and tells us stories from his life and career, including one about his uncle - Norman Mailer - enlisting his help in a failed baseball betting coup.

Hey all, The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships. Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits. You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.

This week on my book club podcast I talk to @johnsemley3000.bsky.social about Frederick Exley’s fictional memoir A Fan’s Notes. It’s about addiction, madness, ambition, celebrity, toxic masculinity, writing, and, of course, football.

Bookmarking this to read to my family on our thanksgiving road trip this week

This week on the podcast I talk to Molly Lambert about architecture, postmodernity, and porn. There's really something for everybody in this episode.

This week on my book club podcast I spoke with @davidpurdum.bsky.social about Michael Konik's The Smart Money. You can listen to the full episode on substack or wherever you get your podcasts, or in the link below.

This week on my book club podcast I spoke with @davidpurdum.bsky.social about Michael Konik's The Smart Money. You can listen to the full episode on substack or wherever you get your podcasts, or in the link below.

I wrote a hot take for the first time in my life www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

🫶🫶🫶 everyone asked about you x birthday girl dc x @davidhill.bsky.social x @jayseadub.bsky.social

Shocked to hear about Kaleb Horton. So young. He was one of many people I knew only online yet he constantly preached that people should log off and be present in the real world, including meeting their friends face to face. As a tribute to him I’ll make an effort to do that with more of you.

Over 270 journalists have been murdered since October 7, 2023. Help us move $1,000 into the IFJ Safety Fund by Labor Day to protect Palestinian reporters from Israel’s violence and support efforts to ensure a thriving Palestinian media in the future. bit.ly/supportPJS

I spoke with @lancebradley.bsky.social about Al Alvarez’s classic “The Biggest Game in Town.” We get into everything from Texas hitmen to Sylvia Plath’s love life. You can listen and subscribe at davidhill.substack.com

I spoke to Haley Mlotek about John Gregory Dunne's sort-of-memoir "Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season." We talked about the city, love, divorce, fantasy, and, of course, Joan Didion. You can listen (and subscribe!) here: davidhill.substack.com/p/vegas-with...

I rarely write about racing anymore, but I had fun talking to my friend @davidhill.bsky.social on his American Gambler podcast about the memoir of union organizer-turned-handicapper Len Ragozin, as well as my own book and whether birding is like gambling. davidhill.substack.com/p/the-odds-m...

Happy Derby Day. This was the riest thing I was ever paid to write. $50 in 2011. I felt like I had really made it big. www.theawl.com/2011/05/two-...

Took the kids to the nations capital for the weekend

Looks like the stock market isn't the only thing that's down

Maybe we shouldn’t elect judges apnews.com/article/new-...

I’m going to see the brutalist at the theater tonight because I’m trying to get back to being the kind of person who would do that

Feels like what we need right now is a little bit of game theory

America is so washed

Get off social media

I listened to the NYT interview with Curtis Yarvin and man that guy is really stupid.

Trudging along through the MIT Mystery Hunt while watching some sports. Inside every man there are two wolves.

Alex Haley interviewing Martin Luther King, cartoons by Leroi Niemann, anything like that?

Is this satire fortune.com/2025/01/14/w...

this defense of chatgpt may be the funniest thing i've ever read in my life

Rams defense are eating

You never forget your first

i don't understand was i supposed to kill him

On my way to see a high school production of Anything Goes. A chance to vicariously relive my star turn as Moonface in 11th grade

I think a lot of the reactionary tech stuff can be boiled down to these guys believing that once they were rich enough they’d be both happy and respected only to find out that they’re neither and they’ve chosen to believe that it’s everyone else’s fault.

hulu will merge with fubo so fubo will drop their lawsuit blocking venu

Is it finally happening

We gotta go back to dvds or something

2024 we don’t know her

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.

Meet me at the Shisu Crispy cart in downtown Tampa in twenty minutes if you want to hear about my fantasy football team

This is a wonderful piece on Netflix and how it’s changing the entertainment business. I think one element of what is going on isn’t just that Netflix is making stuff that is cheap, but that they know that more people want the cheap stuff…. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

I had a different version of this experience when someone who knew who Laura Loomer was asked me if I knew who she was and when I said I did he gave me a disappointed look like we were both sickos who should be ashamed

I regret to inform you I am in Florida

Conclave is the best movie I’ve ever seen about how stupid voting is

I had business cards… #wprbxmas

Postal Strike at Christmastime is my new favorite Christmas song #wprbxmas

@jon.wprb.com it’s really cool to hear Maggie hosting part of the show. Feel like I’ve heard her grow up! The circle will be unbroken!