Book editor forced to stay at a gorgeous California mansion to help an author finish his memoir we paid a multimillion-dollar advance for.

Don't Let the Few Silence the Many. Join PEN America to Fight for the Freedom to Read. pen.org/eoy25-suppor... #bannedbooks #censorship #freedomtoread

It's even more pointless considering how many YouTube users aren't actually watching. Per this Times article: "According to the Signal Hill survey, about 30 percent of people who consume podcasts “play the video in the background or minimize on their device while listening.”

An industry is 100% white: nothing to see here An industry becomes 99% white: grab the rocket launchers, file the lawsuits, make up the imaginary white men who are being discriminated against otherwise we will all die

No one is reading long form. The emergence of the post-literacy world is accompanied by the rise of Medieval Peasant Brain, a mental soup of superstition and magical thinking... We see this most clearly in the mainstreaming of xenophobia, conspiracies, quack medicines, and naked fascism.

“What I planned as a lovely time in Florence living the life of Hemingway has turned out to be living on a train living the life and observe the diet of Ghandi [sic].”

Tonight, Norm Eisen and I joined Pamela Brown to call out Trump’s unlawful attempt to rename the Kennedy Center. I’m filing a lawsuit to reverse it and stop any future renaming without Congressional approval. Watch the full interview on YouTube. 🔗Link here: https://bit.ly/4jdT6EG

#academiclife goldengatexpress.org/114511/campu...

The Trump supporter who runs CBS news just killed a story about Trump’s favorite torture prison. Here’s why America has a liberal media bias problem.

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Please check out how cool this fireplace screen is that an artist friend of my mother’s made.

For Public Picks, Global Black History editor @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social recs @imaniperry.bsky.social's "Black in Blues," Nicholas Boggs's "Baldwin: A Love Story," Joycelyn Longdon's "Natural Connection" & @dorothyjberry.bsky.social's "The House Archives Built."

Those who speculated wildly about the Brown shooter without knowing any facts got things wrong—and it is important that they lose their credibility because of it, Graeme Wood argues.

This is right. Trump wants to destroy the Kennedy Center precisely because it's a great center for the performing arts. And he's succeeding. People are boycotting. Halls are half full. The National Symphony, a very fine orchestra, is in financial trouble. Hundreds of other jobs are threatened, too

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

I used to teach an undergrad historical methods class and their favorite day was always the one where we listen to @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social telling Naomi Wolf (live, on air on the BBC) that she misinterpreted her data and based her whole book around something that didn’t happen

#VCCAFellow here: this place is beautiful year-round. The deadline for Fall 2026 residencies is January 15. Apply: www.vcca.com/apply/reside...

So, do I have this right? A Redditor caught the Brown University and MIT shooter. Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin was turned in by his parents and Keystone KA$H caught the the newest disease going around Vegas?

34 more Black PHDs entered the world today from Morgan State and I think that’s pretty dope.

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Biography

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Nonfiction

Christopher Anderson's pictures for @vanityfair.com are a piercing study in power and corruption. Kudos to him and to the team that ensured they would be published. If I were teaching a class in representation and resistance, this work and its entry into the public sphere would be front and center.

incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works

America has deindustrialized so much they can't even manufacture consent

JFC. UNC’s Centers for: European Studies African Studies Middle East & Islamic Studies Slavic, Eurasian & East European Studies. The Asia Center. The Institute for the Study of the Americas All prestigious National Resource Centers. Incomprehensible from an institution of UNC’s caliber.

“The administration also did not define the term [DEI, but] for reference, to date, the things the administration has decried as DEI include the Calibri font and indoor plumbing in Black neighborhoods.”

His brows always look so good!

I'm so tired of rich people looking like shit. You have no excuse for this. You do not need to look like the guy trying to sell me a BOGO grave plot deal at the cemetery

Larry David, Martin Short and other famous friends had this to say about Rob Reiner

This past Sunday, from 8am to 8pm, New Yorkers from every corner of our city traveled to the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria to share their dreams, their worries, the change they want to see across New York. It was an honor listening to each of them.

Amazing how many articles are just “I’m a white guy who didn’t get the promotion I wanted and the only answer to this problem that concerns every single one of us is to re-segregate the workplace”

this article is wild and important because it shows how Weiss has become a media mogul not because he work has ever been popular, but because a small group of rich and well connected guys liked her work as it made them feel good about not using pronouns and stuff. nymag.com/intelligence...

This is Willi and Rigatoni. They were saying not-so-nice things behind your back, but then you turned around. Super awkward. 13/10 for both (IG: wildwildwilli)

#Skystorians question! Did any non-colonial place pass anti-Carnival ordinances in the 1880s and 1890s? 🗃️

And from a shopper's perspective, it's all so very BORING. You'll never convince me that the best most useful anything is always, without fail, on Amazon. Somehow it's a level of forced delusion amid all the others we have to endure that makes me feel actually insane.

There was at least some attempt at variety in years past. Now publications start on Amazon and find their product recommendations from there. How can there ever be meaningful criticism of Bezos from those outlets as long as they make money from him?

I just had to revisit this because, in the run-up to Christmas 2025, it's obvious to me how gift guides and product recs are not just about affiliate links in general, but *Amazon links* in particular...(a 🧵within a 🧵)

This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants

May the ghostly cries and lamentations of every enslaved person who worked there haunt this boutique hotel's owners, managers, and guests unto the last days of their lives.

Revisit some of our stand-out episodes, curated by the writers of NPR’s Pod Club newsletter

This book is chilling and wonderful - I already have it but leaving this here for others.

New borrowing limits for graduate programs and the elimination of Grad PLUS Loans have left universities scrambling to figure out how to help students pay for their education. www.insidehighered.com/news/busines... #collegedebt #edusky

Being the First in Your Family to attend College Is Not a Deficit—It’s a Distinction www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view... "It means learning how to do college while doing college—a dual curriculum that tests not only intellect but resilience, adaptability and faith." #edusky #firstgen #college

"Antisemitism hysteria is the new Red Scare." Joan Wallach Scott www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

Using a concept of “plantation aesthetics,” my book explores how this promise of luxury created through the exploitation of labor, land & natural resources is embedded in the earliest days of Caribbean colonialism. www.pennpress.org/author/kim-h...

Day 10: Admittedly, on first pass of the headline I thought it was about literal cruises being ruined by influencers. But there is an element of overlap; the same genre of people who contribute to overtourism are also putting (unwanted) spotlights on certain locales. #adventcalendarofcuriosities

Requiring foreign visitors to hand over 5 years of social media isn’t “security,” it’s unchecked government control. All-seeing surveillance systems don’t make us safer. They are in direct opposition to our civil liberties. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The prophet.