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Books editor @washingtonpost. William James acolyte. Capricorn. Baseball fan. Order Muppet. Music geek. Founder: https://t.co/a6NG3OQglS Joined September 2009-
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"It’s a confirmed blind spot in our critical landscape: Unlike music, movie and TV reviewers, book reviewers pride themselves on avoiding what most people are consuming. Sometimes, I feel guilty about this. At the moment, I feel grateful." Ron Charles washingtonpost.com/books/2024/04/…
PEN America cancels awards: washingtonpost.com/books/2024/04/…
This moment from the new Steve Martin documentary where he’s remembering John Candy…damn man.
In a diner with ESPN on, showing football clips ahead of the NFL draft. Young girl next to me, pointing to TV, had this brilliantly concise exchange with her dad: “Is that happening right now?” “No.” “Then why is it on?” “They like to show things that already happened.”
Ahead of @Old97s new record "American Primitive," front man @rhettmiller gets brutally honest about the band’s discography. texasmonthly.com/arts-entertain…
"Unfortunately, perhaps even unjustly, the most acute agony does not always produce the most profound writing." Becca Rothfeld on "Knife." washingtonpost.com/books/2024/04/…
E.O. Wilson here recalling cormac mccarthy and werner herzog in his evocation of nature's brutality. "For millions of years human beings simply went at nature with everything they had [...] Life was short, fate terrifying, and reproduction an urgent priority" (Biophilia, 1984)
“Featuring new music by Keith Urban and Snoop Dogg.” Some part of my spirit knew that line was coming during that ad for “The Garfield Movie.” (Not, apparently, to be confused with “Garfield: The Movie” (2004).
I might not have come across this novel if Lydia Millet hadn't reviewed it for us. I'm intrigued. (I'm also reading "Libra" right now, and this seems — in its way — like an apt companion.) washingtonpost.com/books/2024/04/…
Incredibly honored to have my #16 retired today. To Steve and Alex Cohen and the entire @Mets organization thank you, thank you, thank you! To my family, friends, and teammates, having you part of this celebration means the world to me. #16forever #gooden16 #newyorkmets #LGM
I thought that current me and young me would both be moved to be in Queens today as they retired Dwight Gooden’s number. I was right.
Public places shouldn't be allowed to just play "I Get Along Without You Very Well" willy-nilly.
Brought this down after recent @BacklistedPod episode. Reminded me of funny-dumb moment when I tweeted the below and a few responded by saying I obviously wasn’t familiar with her/her story if I was suggesting a biopic. Perfect Twitter brain(s) moment.
Low has meant a lot to me since I first heard them, in a Texas suburb in 1995, near sundown, when the local NPR station played “Shame” and kept me transfixed and moved in my car for those few minutes. Read Justin’s piece below.
Low has meant a lot to me since I first heard them, in a Texas suburb in 1995, near sundown, when the local NPR station played “Shame” and kept me transfixed and moved in my car for those few minutes. Read Justin’s piece below.
Wondering who Marg*t R*bbie will cast as the green wedge in "Trivial Pursuit: Genus IV."
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Looking around, it strikes me that a lot of what’s going on could be handled better.
If someone wants to guarantee me $100 million and then immediately hire my replacement I am open to those terms
Can’t wait to see most of these first round quarterbacks end up as backups in three years
Totally knocked out by this, one of the best new novels I've read in recent memory nyrb.com/products/loved…
imo the reason a Netflix for books hasn't worked is pretty obvious. 1) libraries 2) most prefer reading print 3) most read fewer books per month than they watch movies/tv per month so there are less savings to be had (esp. with abundant libraries / used books / cheap ebooks)
Kept waiting and waiting for someone to write about polyamory, but nobody else seemed interested so I did it myself yalereview.org/article/brandy…
Poor little thing felt an overwhelming sense of doom because his wittle particles weren't present in sufficient quantity, 😔
It is possible that I did this entire interview in order to talk to Seinfeld about Gary, Keith, and Ron, but perhaps you will find something of interest in there for you, too. gq.com/story/jerry-se…
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Fewer and fewer rooms in which "I interviewed Alan King" is still a flex, but I found one. Here's Jerry on surfing, the Curb finale (with LD chiming in), Mets announcing, Israel, breakfast (obvs), standup (more obvs) and more. gq.com/story/jerry-se…
once we got over our shared disbelief of time travel and facing our past and future selves, I would have some news for this lil fella about his life like 28 years after this photo
Shared this on IG last night but while finishing the book, I asked my brother (the family photo archivist) to send me some photos of us playing basketball as kids & he sent me this one of me practicing free throws in the dark of night at Scottwood park in 1995. I love it.
@nthjohnwilliams @Ofbooksandbikes @ds228 @nonsuchbook @pod_bright I have that edition! One I don't have is the original hardback for Fat City (although I was able to get Leonard Gardner to sign the classic Vintage edition and a nyrb classics edition).
I was so startled, because I was a very small child, frail and given to tears. Where was this confidence? What was the basis for her having confidence in me? I have no idea. In general, I think confidence has to have come from being loved. . . .
Maxwell: Long after my mother was dead I took my wife home for a visit and we went to see one of my mother's friends, who was ill. She'd known me ever since I was a small child, and she said, "Your mother told me one day, 'I have such confidence in Billy.'" . . .
Interviewer: To refer again to your statement that a novel requires "sublime confidence,” where did William Maxwell get that confidence?
@nthjohnwilliams @Ofbooksandbikes @DrewalsoKermit @ds228 @pod_bright I think I like this cover design more. And your dog has an amazing and knowing face.