anandi m
@anandimish.bsky.social
Urbanism through popculture, lived experiences, climate change on Buttondown every other day: https://buttondown.com/StreetHaunting
Words in LA Review of Books, Atlantic, Frieze, Art Review, Virginia Quarterly, Public Books, etc.
www.anandimishra.com
Words in LA Review of Books, Atlantic, Frieze, Art Review, Virginia Quarterly, Public Books, etc.
www.anandimishra.com
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Beautifully written
🚨 Where I write about Delhi's #airpollution, #smog story and the hopelessness people have to live with day after day:
buttondown.com/StreetHaunti...
buttondown.com/StreetHaunti...
Delhi's Smog Exceptionalism
Telling Delhi's haze story
buttondown.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Beautifully written
🚨 Where I write about Delhi's #airpollution, #smog story and the hopelessness people have to live with day after day:
buttondown.com/StreetHaunti...
buttondown.com/StreetHaunti...
Delhi's Smog Exceptionalism
Telling Delhi's haze story
buttondown.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:33 PM
🚨 Where I write about Delhi's #airpollution, #smog story and the hopelessness people have to live with day after day:
buttondown.com/StreetHaunti...
buttondown.com/StreetHaunti...
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It's exciting to see so many photographers and artists migrating to Bluesky. Connecting with each other is the first hurdle — If you make pictures, please reply to this post or share it so more art folks see it. I hope we can create a virtuous circle and make it easier to find each other. Cheers!
February 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
It's exciting to see so many photographers and artists migrating to Bluesky. Connecting with each other is the first hurdle — If you make pictures, please reply to this post or share it so more art folks see it. I hope we can create a virtuous circle and make it easier to find each other. Cheers!
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Adrian Chiles you magnificent bastard you’ve done it again
At the age of 58, I’ve bought my first drill. Can it make me a new man? | Adrian Chiles
At the age of 58, I’ve bought my first drill. Can it make me a new man? | Adrian Chiles
Bored with my DIY hopelessness, I’ve decided it’s time I learned some basics, writes Adrian Charles
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Adrian Chiles you magnificent bastard you’ve done it again
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A social media ban is effectively a ban on having friends who don't live nearby, which is what most under-16s use it for. For some kids, those friends are a lifeline
February 7, 2026 at 9:05 AM
A social media ban is effectively a ban on having friends who don't live nearby, which is what most under-16s use it for. For some kids, those friends are a lifeline
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Saw an ad for an app that, if I understand correctly, you speak to and it distills your spoken thoughts into prompts which you then feed into ChatGPT which then produces whatever document you want to make, the example given is a four bullet point memo of maybe 200 words. Jesus wept.
February 8, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Saw an ad for an app that, if I understand correctly, you speak to and it distills your spoken thoughts into prompts which you then feed into ChatGPT which then produces whatever document you want to make, the example given is a four bullet point memo of maybe 200 words. Jesus wept.
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1000% endorse this message!
Looking for a good writing podcast? Flash reader Christina D’Antoni recommends BETWEEN THE COVERS by David Naimon.
"Especially the Bhanu Kapil and Caren Beilin episodes. There are SO many good ones, but I've saved those two in particular when I need to let a little extra light in. ✨ "
"Especially the Bhanu Kapil and Caren Beilin episodes. There are SO many good ones, but I've saved those two in particular when I need to let a little extra light in. ✨ "
February 10, 2026 at 2:30 AM
1000% endorse this message!
So many quotes in here to pull out and share, but this is a such a incisive, startling profile of Mira Nair, one of my favourite ever filmmakers who also just happens to be Zohran Mamdani's mum.
Cannot believe that I got to profile an extraordinary filmmaker, who happens to be the mother of NYC’s new mayor, and think about intersections of art and politics, and how familial love might produce a buffer against the corrosive politics and cynicism of our time. My story about Mira Nair:
What Mira Nair Taught Zohran Mamdani
The mayor’s famous filmmaker mother reveals the origins of his ferocious ambition.
www.vulture.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:35 PM
So many quotes in here to pull out and share, but this is a such a incisive, startling profile of Mira Nair, one of my favourite ever filmmakers who also just happens to be Zohran Mamdani's mum.
"The books section of a newspaper plays an altogether different role. It does not cater to aficionados; it seeks new recruits."
Becca Rothfeld in shining prose here about the death of literary criticism (perhaps only in America though?).
www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
Becca Rothfeld in shining prose here about the death of literary criticism (perhaps only in America though?).
www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post
Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, on the death of the paper’s books section.
www.newyorker.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:03 PM
"The books section of a newspaper plays an altogether different role. It does not cater to aficionados; it seeks new recruits."
Becca Rothfeld in shining prose here about the death of literary criticism (perhaps only in America though?).
www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
Becca Rothfeld in shining prose here about the death of literary criticism (perhaps only in America though?).
www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
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@anandimish.bsky.social serendipitous!
February 9, 2026 at 10:19 PM
@anandimish.bsky.social serendipitous!
Some Charles Simic, some Jhumpa Lahiri, some micromobility charms: My latest where I write an ode to Rome's tiny hatchbacks.
buttondown.com/StreetHaunti...
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An ode to Rome's tiny hatchbacks
Exploring Rome's micro-mobility charm filled with tiny hatchbacks, a literal moving history.
buttondown.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Some Charles Simic, some Jhumpa Lahiri, some micromobility charms: My latest where I write an ode to Rome's tiny hatchbacks.
buttondown.com/StreetHaunti...
buttondown.com/StreetHaunti...
"The mass market paperback, light in the hand and on the wallet, once filled airport bookstores and supermarket media aisles. You may never buy a new one again."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...
So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 11:03 PM
"The mass market paperback, light in the hand and on the wallet, once filled airport bookstores and supermarket media aisles. You may never buy a new one again."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...
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"If it takes you six months to write a book but I can shit my pants today, who's gonna win the race?"
“If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” God this is bleak
The New Fabio Is Claude
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:52 PM
"If it takes you six months to write a book but I can shit my pants today, who's gonna win the race?"
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3 Doors Down singer Brad Arnold dies at 47 following cancer diagnosis reut.rs/4aeVbMo
3 Doors Down singer Brad Arnold dies at 47 following cancer diagnosis
Brad Arnold, a founder and lead singer of American rock band 3 Doors Down, died on Saturday, nine months after disclosing that he had kidney cancer, the group said. He was 47.
reut.rs
February 7, 2026 at 9:25 PM
3 Doors Down singer Brad Arnold dies at 47 following cancer diagnosis reut.rs/4aeVbMo
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Some alternatives to substack:
Buttondown
Ghost
Beehiiv
I looked at all of these, each of them is fairly straightforward for newsletters/writing.
Admittedly they aren’t all very good at accessibility (yet) except maybe buttondown? but that’s an issue for another day
Buttondown
Ghost
Beehiiv
I looked at all of these, each of them is fairly straightforward for newsletters/writing.
Admittedly they aren’t all very good at accessibility (yet) except maybe buttondown? but that’s an issue for another day
“The global publishing platform Substack is generating revenue from newsletters that promote virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism, a Guardian investigation has found…” www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Some alternatives to substack:
Buttondown
Ghost
Beehiiv
I looked at all of these, each of them is fairly straightforward for newsletters/writing.
Admittedly they aren’t all very good at accessibility (yet) except maybe buttondown? but that’s an issue for another day
Buttondown
Ghost
Beehiiv
I looked at all of these, each of them is fairly straightforward for newsletters/writing.
Admittedly they aren’t all very good at accessibility (yet) except maybe buttondown? but that’s an issue for another day
wrote about "the big disconnect"
buttondown.com/StreetHaunti...
buttondown.com/StreetHaunti...
Strangers need strange moments together
Disconnecting from the digital noise to rekindle my bond with physical world and nonfiction media.
buttondown.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:31 PM
wrote about "the big disconnect"
buttondown.com/StreetHaunti...
buttondown.com/StreetHaunti...
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just discovered this wholesome Youtube channel. need somebody with youth pastor energy to teach the youths to model stormwater runoff flow rates
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPks...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPks...
Do Retention Ponds Actually Work?
YouTube video by Practical Engineering
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:01 AM
just discovered this wholesome Youtube channel. need somebody with youth pastor energy to teach the youths to model stormwater runoff flow rates
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPks...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPks...
IN A CROOKED LITTLE TOWN, THEY WERE LOST AND NEVER FOUND, FALLEN LEAVES, FALLEN LEAVES ON THE GROUND‼️🗣🔥
Forever & ever.
youtu.be/9BXNKyoW_Ow
Forever & ever.
youtu.be/9BXNKyoW_Ow
Billy Talent - Fallen Leaves (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Billy Talent
youtu.be
February 7, 2026 at 9:36 AM
IN A CROOKED LITTLE TOWN, THEY WERE LOST AND NEVER FOUND, FALLEN LEAVES, FALLEN LEAVES ON THE GROUND‼️🗣🔥
Forever & ever.
youtu.be/9BXNKyoW_Ow
Forever & ever.
youtu.be/9BXNKyoW_Ow
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/m...
Recently, I’ve been going the other way. From keeping notebooks do years, to now keeping diaries I feel liberated, too. Sometimes space limitations bring out another kind of writing.
Recently, I’ve been going the other way. From keeping notebooks do years, to now keeping diaries I feel liberated, too. Sometimes space limitations bring out another kind of writing.
Don’t Keep a Diary. Embrace the Fragments of Real Life Instead.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 7:58 AM
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/m...
Recently, I’ve been going the other way. From keeping notebooks do years, to now keeping diaries I feel liberated, too. Sometimes space limitations bring out another kind of writing.
Recently, I’ve been going the other way. From keeping notebooks do years, to now keeping diaries I feel liberated, too. Sometimes space limitations bring out another kind of writing.
The drama in that photo. The very lush, drama!!!
Dank and murky morning in Leeds, as per usual. Bird song building up though and local song thrush really going for it.
February 7, 2026 at 7:57 AM
The drama in that photo. The very lush, drama!!!
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Climate change threatens the Winter Olympics’ future – and even snowmaking has limits
Scientists found that by the 2080s the climates in 12 of 22 former venues would be too unreliable to host the Winter Olympics’ outdoor events. theconversation.com/climate-chan...
Scientists found that by the 2080s the climates in 12 of 22 former venues would be too unreliable to host the Winter Olympics’ outdoor events. theconversation.com/climate-chan...
Climate change threatens the Winter Olympics’ future – and even snowmaking has limits for saving the Games
Innovations have made recent Winter Games possible, but the future climate will have a big impact on where the Olympics can be held and winter sports themselves.
theconversation.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Climate change threatens the Winter Olympics’ future – and even snowmaking has limits
Scientists found that by the 2080s the climates in 12 of 22 former venues would be too unreliable to host the Winter Olympics’ outdoor events. theconversation.com/climate-chan...
Scientists found that by the 2080s the climates in 12 of 22 former venues would be too unreliable to host the Winter Olympics’ outdoor events. theconversation.com/climate-chan...
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After 20 years, I've been laid off at The Washington Post.
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substack.com/home/post/p-...
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 7:17 PM
After 20 years, I've been laid off at The Washington Post.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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This year's Climate Fiction Prize longlist looks great. Read all of last year's list, haven't read any of these yet. Time to get stuck in.
Explore the longlist - The Climate Fiction Prize
Explore the inaugural longlist for the Climate Fiction Prize
climatefictionprize.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 12:59 PM
This year's Climate Fiction Prize longlist looks great. Read all of last year's list, haven't read any of these yet. Time to get stuck in.
Wrote about how tactical urbanism initiatives in Gothenburg, Sweden, help citizens find and make more meaning in our day to days here. Fun fact: Rereading Virginia Woolf's Street Haunting got me thinking about these connected ideas!!
buttondown.com/StreetHaunti...
buttondown.com/StreetHaunti...
Placemaking as meaning making
"Exploring the magic of mundane city walks and urban interventions in 21st century Göteborg, inspired by Virginia Woolf's 'Street Haunting'."
buttondown.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Wrote about how tactical urbanism initiatives in Gothenburg, Sweden, help citizens find and make more meaning in our day to days here. Fun fact: Rereading Virginia Woolf's Street Haunting got me thinking about these connected ideas!!
buttondown.com/StreetHaunti...
buttondown.com/StreetHaunti...