michael röbbins
@alienvsrobbins.bsky.social
ah mother american night
books: Walkman | Alien vs. Predator | Equipment for Living: On Poetry & Pop Music | &c.
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Rock Chalk
books: Walkman | Alien vs. Predator | Equipment for Living: On Poetry & Pop Music | &c.
Free Palestine
http://bit.ly/3pY75Rz
Rock Chalk
Pinned
i never want to understand curling because it's funnier to watch that way. i watch it on mute so i won't accidentally learn anything about the sport
February 14, 2026 at 2:24 AM
i never want to understand curling because it's funnier to watch that way. i watch it on mute so i won't accidentally learn anything about the sport
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City of Blights
Visiting Paris with Balzac
– Michael Robbins
www.bookforum.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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If you're taking that Atlantic article about 'woke' scholarship being funded seriously please block me because I never want to know you exist, let alone to hear your stupid opinions, and/or walk into the sea because you're a waste of space. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
February 13, 2026 at 4:12 AM
If you're taking that Atlantic article about 'woke' scholarship being funded seriously please block me because I never want to know you exist, let alone to hear your stupid opinions, and/or walk into the sea because you're a waste of space. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Author of Walkman and other books of poetry (Penguin); Equipment for Living: On Poetry & Pop Music (Simon & Schuster). Work in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review,...
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February 13, 2026 at 2:01 AM
I do not have a substack newsletter thingy, nor will I ever, but I am on substack if you feel like following each other: substack.com/@gunsnrobbins
City of Blights
Visiting Paris with Balzac
– Michael Robbins
www.bookforum.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:40 PM
25 days till Daylight Saving Time
February 11, 2026 at 6:00 PM
25 days till Daylight Saving Time
Rock fuckin chalk. Are you kidding me?
February 10, 2026 at 4:29 AM
Rock fuckin chalk. Are you kidding me?
this quote from Bianca Censori has made me stupider
February 6, 2026 at 5:47 PM
this quote from Bianca Censori has made me stupider
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“This is not good writing. It shouldn’t work, and it doesn’t. But it kind of does.”
Michael Robbins on Caroline Fraser’s Murderland, overwrought writing, and true crime.
Read the new Diary now on Book Post.
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Michael Robbins on Caroline Fraser’s Murderland, overwrought writing, and true crime.
Read the new Diary now on Book Post.
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@alienvsrobbins.bsky.social
Diary: Michael Robbins on the Uses of Bad Writing
The flimsiness of the book’s thesis gives it a crazy energy, mirrored in its over-the-top prose
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February 6, 2026 at 1:59 AM
“This is not good writing. It shouldn’t work, and it doesn’t. But it kind of does.”
Michael Robbins on Caroline Fraser’s Murderland, overwrought writing, and true crime.
Read the new Diary now on Book Post.
books.substack.com/p/diary-mich...
@alienvsrobbins.bsky.social
Michael Robbins on Caroline Fraser’s Murderland, overwrought writing, and true crime.
Read the new Diary now on Book Post.
books.substack.com/p/diary-mich...
@alienvsrobbins.bsky.social
Top 10 Westerns
Rio Bravo
The Wild Bunch
My Darling Clementine
The Naked Spur
The Tall T
Johnny Guitar
The Searchers
Forty Guns
The Long Riders
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
(last two are personal favorites from childhood, despite their faults)
Rio Bravo
The Wild Bunch
My Darling Clementine
The Naked Spur
The Tall T
Johnny Guitar
The Searchers
Forty Guns
The Long Riders
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
(last two are personal favorites from childhood, despite their faults)
Top Ten Westerns (alphabetical)
Aferim!
Black God, White Devil
The Devil’s Doorway
Forty Guns
Little Big Man
McCabe and Mrs Miller
Once Upon a Time in the West
Ride the High Country
Ulzana’s Raid
The Wild Bunch
Aferim!
Black God, White Devil
The Devil’s Doorway
Forty Guns
Little Big Man
McCabe and Mrs Miller
Once Upon a Time in the West
Ride the High Country
Ulzana’s Raid
The Wild Bunch
Top-10 Fave Westerns:
Rio Bravo
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
Bacurau
The Shooting
Little Big Man
Brokeback Mountain
Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood
Winchester ‘73
The Quick and the Dead
Rio Bravo
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
Bacurau
The Shooting
Little Big Man
Brokeback Mountain
Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood
Winchester ‘73
The Quick and the Dead
February 5, 2026 at 3:52 AM
Top 10 Westerns
Rio Bravo
The Wild Bunch
My Darling Clementine
The Naked Spur
The Tall T
Johnny Guitar
The Searchers
Forty Guns
The Long Riders
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
(last two are personal favorites from childhood, despite their faults)
Rio Bravo
The Wild Bunch
My Darling Clementine
The Naked Spur
The Tall T
Johnny Guitar
The Searchers
Forty Guns
The Long Riders
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
(last two are personal favorites from childhood, despite their faults)
Reposted by michael röbbins
always psyched when Greil quotes me in his column I’ve been reading for over 30 years
February 4, 2026 at 5:32 PM
always psyched when Greil quotes me in his column I’ve been reading for over 30 years
always psyched when Greil quotes me in his column I’ve been reading for over 30 years
February 4, 2026 at 5:32 PM
always psyched when Greil quotes me in his column I’ve been reading for over 30 years
Reposted by michael röbbins
Darryn Peterson activated. Rock fucking chalk
February 3, 2026 at 4:22 AM
Darryn Peterson activated. Rock fucking chalk
"Dunning–Kruger effect" and "confirmation bias" and suchlike "cognitive biases" are just pseudo-scientific names for completely banal truths that everyone has known at least since Sophocles
February 3, 2026 at 1:24 AM
"Dunning–Kruger effect" and "confirmation bias" and suchlike "cognitive biases" are just pseudo-scientific names for completely banal truths that everyone has known at least since Sophocles
Pinker-level Big Dumb Idea guy
February 2, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Pinker-level Big Dumb Idea guy
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made it through another fucking January
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
made it through another fucking January
made it through another fucking January
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
made it through another fucking January
Rock chalk Jayhawk
January 31, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Rock chalk Jayhawk
I think Raymond Chandler is overrated, but I’ll grant his way with metaphor: "She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me."
January 29, 2026 at 3:36 AM
I think Raymond Chandler is overrated, but I’ll grant his way with metaphor: "She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me."
just got out of class & for the first time in months it’s still light out 🌞
January 28, 2026 at 10:10 PM
just got out of class & for the first time in months it’s still light out 🌞