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Yoko Tawada—exophone, master of the "poetic ravine," genius—is my favorite living author. Maybe she will be yours too:
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Yoko Tawada Is A Genius In Any Language | Defector
There’s always a song to sing, but first a silence must be created for the song to be born in. — Yoko Tawada, Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel The best argument I can make for why I like reading...
https://defector.com/yoko-tawada-is-a-genius-in-any-language
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Brian Phillips
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The president of Cornell hit two students with his car, lied about what happened, and got away with it. The story illustrates an under-reported crisis in higher education: administrators and the trustees they answer to are increasingly hostile to the idea of college itself. I wrote about it here:
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Who’s to Blame When an Ivy League President Drives Into His Students?
“Ah! He just ran over my fucking foot!”
https://www.theringer.com/2026/05/22/national-affairs/cornell-car-scandal-president-michael-kotlikoff-higher-education
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The latest episode of Nothing But Respect features the great Noah Kulwin and is out now:
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Kenny Kennedy with Noah Kulwin
Podcast Episode · Nothing But Respect · May 20 · 1h 15m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kenny-kennedy-with-noah-kulwin/id1767406634?i=1000768803149
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I wrote about some people who need to have some self- (and for that matter, species-) respect:
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"for all practical purposes, this money has been awarded to Trump himself, by Trump himself, to distribute as he sees fit." -
@redford.bsky.social
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Donald Trump Is Stealing Your Money | Defector
There are many ways that Donald Trump is currently making your life worse, not to mention generally waging war on the concept of “the future”: accelerating the death of the biosphere, doing his best t...
https://defector.com/donald-trump-is-stealing-your-money
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Has anyone here gone up to the Sierras/Tahoe in the last few weeks? How much snow is there still?
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Brandy Jensen
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not unrecognizable but he does look like if Belgium had a dictator
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David_j_roth
10 days ago
Very good time talking about Wemby, the lead paint-scented Cavs/Pistons series, and outdoor music venues with our California Lifestyle Bureau Chief this week:
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The "Too Large" Gesture, With Patrick Redford | Defector
Here’s a little secret about elite performers: They’re always working to get better at their craft. The example I tend to use is Patrick Redford, who hosts both the Nothing But Respect and Only If You...
https://defector.com/the-too-large-gesture-with-patrick-redford
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Defector
10 days ago
Even a bad Valkyries game is a pretty great time:
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Even A Bad Valkyries Game Is A Pretty Great Time | Defector
SAN FRANCISCO — Stuffed with dumplings, walking off the 22 bus past my neurologists’ office and across Third Street up to the Golden State Valkyries’ arena with the sun at our backs, I told my friend…
https://defector.com/even-a-bad-valkyries-game-is-a-pretty-great-time
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Drew Magary
10 days ago
Time to go knuckle deep into NBA playoff talk, with
@redford.bsky.social
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Look at What They Done Been Through with Patrick Redford
It’s time to get serious about the NBA playoffs, so Drew and Roth welcome fellow Defector and host of Nothing But Respect and Only If You Get Caught Patrick Reford to the show! They start in the West ...
https://art19.com/shows/the-distraction/episodes/250cd2d3-3654-4c92-a1a3-6da2b8cad2d6
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the valkyries may have lost but Kiah Stokes and i have agreed on a deal to collectivize rim protection
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I still don’t think the Valkyries are big enough to really win stuff that matters but Nakaseball is legit, they’re gonna be able to score on anyone
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Joel Embiid doesn’t dunk directly anymore but he has learned to remotely pilot Kelly Oubre to the rim so he can dunk for him
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Daramola
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Over at defector, I wrote about what it means to be a great American songwriter
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What Makes A Great American Songwriter? | Defector
Welcome to Listening Habits, a column where I share the music and musical topics I’ve been fixated on recently. You might’ve heard recently that the New York Times came out with a list of the 30 great...
https://defector.com/what-makes-a-great-american-songwriter
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The stuff the
@oaklandreviewofbooks.org
has been pumping out has been incredible. Subscribe now!
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oliver haug
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a couple weeks ago my friend and I journeyed all the way around the bay on public transit only. i wrote about the things we saw, for
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Seeing from public transit
Around the sun, around the bay, the day after the Spring Equinox
https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/seeing-from-public-transit/
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Jasper Wang
19 days ago
The WNBA is back, and so is
@defector.com
's TEN MINUTE QUARTERS at Littlefield in Brooklyn on Monday May 18. We’ll have giveaways, games, goofs, and as always a lineup of hilarious comics. Go to
defector.com/wnbashow
for tickets, use code LETSGOLIBS for 10% off
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the celtics went out like chumps because they faced away from the holy truth that basketball is about doing Cool Moves. they geared their whole shit away from anything Cool, thus they deserve their fate
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We are currently in production of Only If You Get Caught's second season! It will drop later this year, giving you a few months to get caught up on the first season 👇
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Only If You Get Caught
History Podcast · Updated Weekly · Only If You Get Caught is about how we can better understand sports and culture by appreciating the ways humans cheat in ways big and small. Hosted by Patrick Redfo...
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/only-if-you-get-caught/id1826568874
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Barry Petchesky
23 days ago
Fun backstory here. Sabs blogged about how much they hated those Grammarly commercials. The actor, Jude, turned out to be a Defector reader and was down to make this ad happen.
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Brandy Jensen
24 days ago
It is always extremely fun to read Mark Asch. Here he is on two movies starring Charli XCX
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Charli XCX Is Firmly In Her Cinephile Era | Defector
The novelist Walter Tevis described his 1963 sci-fi novel The Man Who Fell to Earth, obliquely inspired by his struggles with alcoholism, as “disguised autobiography.” It had been optioned at least th...
https://defector.com/charli-xcx-is-firmly-in-her-cinephile-era
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Craig Fehrman
24 days ago
My book is debuting at #6 on the NYT nonfiction best seller list. I am stunned and so grateful that readers are embracing not just Lewis + Clark but York, Ordway, Black Buffalo, and more. This goes especially for
@defector.com
readers -- the response to my dog attack essay has been incredible.
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Jasper Wang
26 days ago
Somehow a professional sports front office is poaching from
@defector.com
's business team, so I need to hire a new Director of Revenue. Apply here:
apply.workable.com/defector-med...
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Director of Revenue - Defector Media
Defector Media is a 100-percent worker-owned and -operated media company that launched in 2020. You can read about our origin story in the New York Times, the recent state of our business in our 2025 ...
https://apply.workable.com/defector-media/j/81AA49B001/
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Ben Dowsett
26 days ago
The playoff crew chief is the most important and prestigious role in NBA officiating, one only entrusted to a select few refs. And it could be headed toward a crisis. For
@defector.com
:
defector.com/one-of-the-n...
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One Of The NBA's Most Important Jobs May Be Headed Toward A Crisis | Defector
Steve Javie can’t recall much from the actual game itself, but he’ll always remember what happened later that night. It was Javie’s first NBA Finals game in 1995, always a huge deal for an up-and-comi...
https://defector.com/one-of-the-nbas-most-important-jobs-may-be-headed-toward-a-crisis
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giri nathan
27 days ago
the unexpected intersection of climate change and tennis court surface! spoke to two geoscientists doing fascinating work
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How Much Good Can A Green Clay Tennis Court Do? | Defector
Can you save the world by playing on green clay, staving off climate catastrophe? Probably not, but if all tennis courts in the world were made of green clay, we’d at least be better off, according to...
https://defector.com/how-much-good-can-a-green-clay-tennis-court-do
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Defector
26 days ago
‘Michael’ is the most cynical attempt at biopic myth-making yet:
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'Michael' Is The Most Cynical Attempt At Biopic Myth-Making Yet | Defector
Michael is a bad movie. Let’s just get that out of the way now. It is a movie designed less to tell a story than to recreate moments, ones you are probably already familiar with. It is a movie…
https://defector.com/michael-is-the-most-cynical-attempt-at-biopic-myth-making-yet
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Oakland Review of Books
27 days ago
Does Lake Merritt smell? The answer isn't so simple.
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Oakland funk
How to smell Lake Merritt.
https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/oakland-funk/
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The current leader for the 2025-26 NBA Playoffs award for Explosive Muscularity is Carter Bryant
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this is a perfect example of what we are looking for on the Broke Jumper Tip Line
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Nothing But Respect is rolling out the Broke Jumper Tip Line. We want any info on the basketball games, preferences, or associations of any celebrity or public person or elected official! Call (347) 380-6426
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Victor Wembanyama has a concussion. I wrote about that means: painful uncertainty
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Warriors comeback is a big win for millennial excellence
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Diana Moskovitz
about 1 month ago
I wrote about Dianna Russini, the constant pressure female reporters face to prove they aren't sleeping with sources (plus the pressure we do get from sources to get involved with them), and why all of this is so uncomfortable to talk about. Gift link:
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You Can Never Let Them Think They Have A Chance | Defector
I don’t remember the first time someone hit on me as a reporter. I believe this is because my brain has come to treat these events as unremarkable. For any woman in journalism, they pile up over the y...
https://defector.com/dianna-russini-mike-vrabel-the-athletic?giftLink=1a891651515d783b69535d621ebd53ee
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The NBR playoff mega-preview is out now, starring
@seankuhn.bsky.social
@highkin.bsky.social
@kylietcheung.bsky.social
@ichotiner.bsky.social
@eamonwhalen.bsky.social
@jacobrosenberg.bsky.social
@islemcelroy.bsky.social
@maitreyiaa.bsky.social
@toley.bsky.social
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Nothing But Respect
Sports Podcast · Updated Weekly · The last uncompromised podcast hosted by Patrick Redford and Harry Krinsky.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nothing-but-respect/id1767406634
about 1 month ago
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Defector
about 1 month ago
World Cup transit is broken before it has begun:
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World Cup Transit Is Broken Before It Has Begun | Defector
On Tuesday, the Athletic reported that NJ Transit plans on hiking up the price of return tickets to New York Penn Station from World Cup games at the New York New Jersey stadium in East Rutherford,…
https://defector.com/world-cup-transit-is-broken-before-it-has-begun
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wishing you all a very ethereal and diaphanous play in tournament
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Timothy Burke
about 1 month ago
some good news for once. Judge Sansone has again rejected the government's claim that I am a dangerous criminal who needs strict supervision & thus as of today am free to travel anywhere in the continental u.s., no longer have daily random drug tests, etc. Thank you to everyone who helped out.
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Wout van Aert forever:
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Wout van Aert Forever | Defector
Before Sunday, Wout van Aert’s professional cycling career looked most like a testament to the irresistible force of entropy. Before Sunday, the Belgian had never won either of the two biggest one-day...
https://defector.com/wout-van-aert-forever
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LRB Bookshop
about 1 month ago
samuel beckett was born on this day 120 years ago. astonishing to think that if he had survived, and could run 100m in 9.57 seconds, he would be not only the oldest but also the fastest man in the world - together with his nobel prize for literature, an astonishing trifecta
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in other words, a good samurai will carry the blow
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becoming increasingly jealous of the Finnish concept of "Jokamiehenoikeus"
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iPacers.com - Derek Kramer
about 1 month ago
Had me dying. Clip via
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I wrote about the end of the U.S. Forest Service and the arrogance of trying to kill something like a forest:
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🚨 We had great
@davidjroth.bsky.social
on Nothing But Respect this week 🚨
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Yax Soprana with David Roth
Podcast Episode · Nothing But Respect · April 8 · 1h 16m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yax-soprana-with-david-roth/id1767406634?i=1000760312816
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Oakland Review of Books
about 2 months ago
"Black sonic politics in Oakland, in nine sounds," a playlist. By Alex Werth (as told to Tommy Craggs):
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/black-sonic-...
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Black sonic politics in Oakland, in nine sounds
A playlist.
https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/black-sonic-politics-in-oakland-in-nine-sounds/
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giri nathan
about 2 months ago
I love learning often about basketball with the help of Google Gemini!
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Wout van Aert is going to win Paris-Roubaix
about 2 months ago
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I went to Erewhon, had the best smoothie of my life, and realized that it's a Baudrillardian interactive museum in the form of a grocery store:
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Erewhon Is Not A Grocery Store | Defector
Everyone is trying to get to the bar. The name of the bar? The bar is called Erewhon. This past January, I spent a long weekend in Los Angeles. I was excited to catch up with my friends and their dogs...
https://defector.com/erewhon-is-not-a-grocery-store
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John Semley
about 2 months ago
I went to a generative AI summit where Hollywood/tech insiders compared gen-AI to the film camera, the printing press and…the harnessing of flame by man. But don’t worry: they’re NOT being “hyperbolic.” Some thoughts for
@wired.com
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