The city’s Blue Highways distribution program aims to decrease truck emissions and road congestion while delivering your Sephora package. Its solution? Boats. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

On a visit to New York, Ian McKellen reflected on mortality and coming out, and unleashed an Elizabethan anti-ICE monologue on “Colbert” that went viral. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/-JX4Ef

Thanks for including me, Grub Street! The Grub Street Diet is the psychiatrist's couch of journalism.

Thank you, Word Smart. Let's collectively replace the dour term "copyright trap" with the sexy sexy "Mountweazel"! @emckean.bsky.social @wtdore.bsky.social @johndacey.bsky.social @francismizio.bsky.social @slacktivistfred.bsky.social @wendalynnichols.bsky.social wordsmarts.com/mountweazel/...

Matthew Broderick and André De Shields have both undertaken Molière’s con-man character. They feel he has a few things in common with a certain orange President. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Andrea Martin stars in “Meet the Cartozians,” a new play about an Armenian family of reality-TV stars who are suspiciously similar to the Kardashians. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/keeping-up-with-andrea-martin

With Proposition 50 re-drawing California’s congressional map in favor of the Democrats, we count the reasons why Gavin Newsom is a serious presidential contender.

Welcome @henryalford.bsky.social to the 2025 Festival! His latest book, I Dream of Joni, was published in January. Events are FREE and open to the public. Join us in downtown Brattleboro, VT. October 17-19. #HenryAlford #nonfiction #biography #JoniMitchell #brattleboroliteraryfestival2025 #Vermont

“Know that anyone who has made dozens of dangerous forays into Kabul could probably handle a working lunch with Lauren Boebert.”

Happy 9/4/9/68

The paperback of "I Dream of Joni," which comes out in January, is part of this 25% off promotion.

Just read your book, "I Dream of Joni". The best book to date on the Great JM that I have read. Wonderful book, thank you !

This is the only "news" story I ever "broke" www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...

It me @falseknees.bsky.social #throwbackThursday

Ed Helms knows what’s up.

An excerpt from “Hollywood High” in @airmailweekly ! (And picture a reminder of how great Amanda Seyfried was as Karen.) @avidreaderpress airmail.news/issues/2025-...

Activism for Introverts! Copying the Constitution www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"It’s a very calming experience. And when you’re calm you make better decisions.” - #MorganO'Hara, an 84-year-old conceptual artist who has written out the #Constitution, in full, on three occasions @henryalford.bsky.social @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Durham, N.C.

"My father was a great whistler and a great farter, and he could carry a tune from either end." Congratulations to colleague and former boss Graydon Carter on his wonderfully funny new memoir.

Alas, this monologue about the possible demise of "Sesame Street" that I published in 2017 is relevant again: "Sesame Street" has lost its deal with HBO, and Trump's cuts to USAID have stripped the show of a lot of grant money. Thinking of you, various pieces of felt!

YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work

Eggs now cost $15 a dozen and your retirement portfolio is down by 30%, but at least no one has to be ashamed about being racist anymore

That we are more patient than we thought.

Finally, coöperation!

Concerned that my newly-enhanced parasocial relationship with Paul Mescal may start to distract me from my historically more vibrant parasocial relationship with Andrew Scott.

La mer, la mer 🩵💙🩵

I hope they put a dulcimer under each audience member's seat

Hey Skywriters: If you're a fan of Joni Mitchell, do yourself a favor & pick of a copy of the now Oprah validated "I Dream of Joni" by Henry Alford. The prose alone will transport u to revisit various stages of your life & spend time w/Joni from the unique "Alfordian" perspective. A beautiful book.

Thank you, Oprah! www.oprahdaily.com/entertainmen...

The idea that someone put one of Louise Bourgeois's slightly terrifying spider sculptures in their living room is almost as interesting to me as the fact that Bourgeois named one of her spider sculptures "Maman" (mother).

RIP religious historian Martin E. Marty, who believed that napping is a form of prayer. (“My only worry,” he told me when I interviewed him for my book How to Live, “is that all my prayers will be answered, but I won’t know it because I’ll be asleep.”) www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

Been reading Henry Alford’s “I Dream of Joni” (jonimitchell.com/library/view...) — and loving it. Her “Blue” is the soundtrack of my adolescence, we share a birthday, and she’s just everything. The book’s full of telling vignettes; what a queen. #booksky

RFK at his confirmation hearing: “I am not anti-vaccine” After RFK confirmed as HHS head: - CDC flu vaccine campaign pulled - Childhood vaccine schedule reviewed - Federal funding to schools with COVID vaccine mandates withdrawn - Meeting to update flu vaccines cancelled

Yikes, now he's posing as a woman named Amy Gleason?

Thank you, Bookish (and Samantha Dunn and Sandra Tsing Loh) for having me on the show! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v5n...

Huge congratulations to Susan Morrison, whose masterful new biography of Lorne Michaels is so insanely readable that the copy I bought was partially chewed.

Loved talking with the hilarious Rajiv Satyal.

Solid review of "I Dream of Joni" in Air Mail: airmail.news/issues/2025-...

My guest on this episode of "Writers at Work" is @henryalford.bsky.social, whose “I Dream of Joni: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell in 53 Snapshots," presents the greatest artist to emerge from the '60s folk movement in a manner that told me I really don't know Joni at all. tinyurl.com/mrxr2pkj

Thank you, Washington Post! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

My guest on this episode of "Writers at Work" is @henryalford.bsky.social, whose “I Dream of Joni: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell in 53 Snapshots," presents the greatest artist to emerge from the '60s folk movement in a manner that told me I really don't know Joni at all. tinyurl.com/mrxr2pkj

Huge, huge thanks to everyone who supported "I Dream of Joni"--it's a national bestseller, a career first for me.

“He practiced into his eighties and kept on making masterpieces.” Sara Caples and Everardo Jefferson tell Open House New York about Mimar Sinan, the greatest architect you’ve never heard of. Listen: personplacething.org

Marianne Faithfull, Chanteuse of Survival, Is Dead at 78 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/a... by @jimfarbermusic.bsky.social