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I attempted to consecrate myself in the library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.
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fwiw Americans are very bad at understanding that the 2 things you're not supposed to discuss - politics and religion - infuse literally everything that the country has done, is doing, and will do
it's the water we swim in, which is why we don't see it
it's the water we swim in, which is why we don't see it
February 9, 2026 at 5:55 PM
fwiw Americans are very bad at understanding that the 2 things you're not supposed to discuss - politics and religion - infuse literally everything that the country has done, is doing, and will do
it's the water we swim in, which is why we don't see it
it's the water we swim in, which is why we don't see it
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After 20 years, I've been laid off at The Washington Post.
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I’ve Been Laid Off. I’m Not Done.
After 20 years at The Washington Post, I’m suddenly on my own — and still writing about books.
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February 4, 2026 at 7:17 PM
After 20 years, I've been laid off at The Washington Post.
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Context: Ron Charles, a former Pulitzer juror, is perhaps America's finest book critic.
After 20 years, I've been laid off at The Washington Post.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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I’ve Been Laid Off. I’m Not Done.
After 20 years at The Washington Post, I’m suddenly on my own — and still writing about books.
substack.com
February 4, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Context: Ron Charles, a former Pulitzer juror, is perhaps America's finest book critic.
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From the great David Wojnarowicz (thread):
"I wake up every morning in this killing machine called america & I’m carrying this rage like a blood filled egg & there’s a thin line between inside & the outside a thin line between thought & action & that line is simply made up of blood & muscle & bone"
"I wake up every morning in this killing machine called america & I’m carrying this rage like a blood filled egg & there’s a thin line between inside & the outside a thin line between thought & action & that line is simply made up of blood & muscle & bone"
January 19, 2026 at 2:33 PM
From the great David Wojnarowicz (thread):
"I wake up every morning in this killing machine called america & I’m carrying this rage like a blood filled egg & there’s a thin line between inside & the outside a thin line between thought & action & that line is simply made up of blood & muscle & bone"
"I wake up every morning in this killing machine called america & I’m carrying this rage like a blood filled egg & there’s a thin line between inside & the outside a thin line between thought & action & that line is simply made up of blood & muscle & bone"
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Helene Schjerfbeck, Fragment, 1904. Oil on canvas, 12 3/8 x 13 3/8 in. (Villa Gyllenberg / Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation, Helsinki), from an exhibition of the Finnish painter now on at the Met
December 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Helene Schjerfbeck, Fragment, 1904. Oil on canvas, 12 3/8 x 13 3/8 in. (Villa Gyllenberg / Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation, Helsinki), from an exhibition of the Finnish painter now on at the Met
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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"fuck your grandpa and his purple heart" -- the us coast guard
“The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika — an emblem of fascism and white supremacy inextricably linked to the murder of millions of Jews and the deaths of more than 400,000 U.S. troops who died fighting in World War II — as a hate symbol”
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
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November 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
"fuck your grandpa and his purple heart" -- the us coast guard
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
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Just gorgeous: Saeed Jones’ “Date Night”
November 2, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Just gorgeous: Saeed Jones’ “Date Night”
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I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
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Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
October 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
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I will repost this forever.
October 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I will repost this forever.
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Took this excellent advice tonight and my God, she's so good in it. It feels condescending to say she held her own with Nicholson and Beatty If anything she made Nicholson hotter and Beatty more intense. They had to meet *her* level. An understatement to say she holds the film together
There are so many Diane Keaton performances to remember, but a lot of people haven't seen Reds, and A) my God, see it, it is a masterpiece and B) her performance as Louise Bryant is one of the bravest, toughest, least sympathy-courting pieces of work by an American actress in the last 50 years.
October 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Took this excellent advice tonight and my God, she's so good in it. It feels condescending to say she held her own with Nicholson and Beatty If anything she made Nicholson hotter and Beatty more intense. They had to meet *her* level. An understatement to say she holds the film together
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There are so many Diane Keaton performances to remember, but a lot of people haven't seen Reds, and A) my God, see it, it is a masterpiece and B) her performance as Louise Bryant is one of the bravest, toughest, least sympathy-courting pieces of work by an American actress in the last 50 years.
October 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
There are so many Diane Keaton performances to remember, but a lot of people haven't seen Reds, and A) my God, see it, it is a masterpiece and B) her performance as Louise Bryant is one of the bravest, toughest, least sympathy-courting pieces of work by an American actress in the last 50 years.
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Jenny Holzer, "Redacted (Top Secret)," 2012
September 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Jenny Holzer, "Redacted (Top Secret)," 2012
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Hard to think of many artists of the last fifty years more clear-sighted than this: David Wojnarowicz, "Democracy at Work," 1990
September 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Hard to think of many artists of the last fifty years more clear-sighted than this: David Wojnarowicz, "Democracy at Work," 1990
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so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
September 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
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George Hendrik Breitner, born OTD 1857: girl adjusting an earring before her mirror, 1893.
September 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
George Hendrik Breitner, born OTD 1857: girl adjusting an earring before her mirror, 1893.
@andydehnart.com Roku has finally added The Great Pottery Throwdown seasons 6 and 7
September 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
@andydehnart.com Roku has finally added The Great Pottery Throwdown seasons 6 and 7
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27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline.
It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.
It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.
August 13, 2025 at 6:56 AM
27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline.
It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.
It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.
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My wife is in Vogue shitting on your AI-generated "art" 💜 www.vogue.com/article/matt...
![Well, everything. The death of art. [Laughs.] A thing that I’ve been struck by in the last year of tech development around art is that what makes us human is making art, even if you’re not a professional artist. This is kind of corny, but I think about cavemen, right? One of the first things we ever did as a species was put our handprints on a wall, and it’s just this drive that has always been there. It’ll always be there. And I think it’s preposterous that these people are suggesting that they develop this technology, and the first thing they want to eliminate is art, so you have more time to…what, email? I don’t know what they think I’m going to do with my fucking day. Most of the population is not artists, but a lot of the population has artistic hobbies, and if you replace that with a computer doing it for you or whatever, it’s just pointless. I think there’s a death drive in these people, almost, and an actual hatred of artists; they are jealous of people with imagination because they don’t have one, and they almost consciously want to eliminate it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:obalt57atoxc2zooldtuur75/bafkreifnjtvupzmkqg7cggiv2z5nckzpp5yd2sm7h5gg2kq3plbwv2btuy@jpeg)
July 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
My wife is in Vogue shitting on your AI-generated "art" 💜 www.vogue.com/article/matt...
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If you’ve never seen it, SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS is so much more intense and excellent than you imagine it is, a frank, spectacular film
July 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
If you’ve never seen it, SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS is so much more intense and excellent than you imagine it is, a frank, spectacular film
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2/2 Max Ernst had a very, er, different take on the relationship between Mary & her son. Misreading of Campin from 1926.
April 27, 2025 at 12:42 AM
2/2 Max Ernst had a very, er, different take on the relationship between Mary & her son. Misreading of Campin from 1926.
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There's a pattern in this administration -- stretching back to Trump's complaint that the problem with COVID was that we were testing to see who actually had it -- in which they think if we don't pay attention, it's not happening.
The Lack of Object Permanence Presidency
The Lack of Object Permanence Presidency
Rule changes announced by the Trump administration this week could allow automakers to report fewer crashes involving self-driving cars, with Tesla potentially emerging as the main beneficiary.
Tesla could benefit the most from new rules on reporting of self-driving car crashes
Rule changes announced by the Trump administration this week could allow automakers to report fewer crashes involving self-driving cars, with Tesla potentially emerging as the main beneficiary.
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April 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
There's a pattern in this administration -- stretching back to Trump's complaint that the problem with COVID was that we were testing to see who actually had it -- in which they think if we don't pay attention, it's not happening.
The Lack of Object Permanence Presidency
The Lack of Object Permanence Presidency