BDM
@bdmcclay.bsky.social
critic & essayist / my dog's name is Boswell
i have a newsletter: https://notebook.substack.com/
header image: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/237761
i have a newsletter: https://notebook.substack.com/
header image: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/237761
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the mirror crack’d from side to side / my fate has come upon me cried / the lady of shalott
October 1, 2025 at 2:34 AM
the mirror crack’d from side to side / my fate has come upon me cried / the lady of shalott
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Has everyone bought their copies of Moon Songs?
“MOON SONGS: THE SELECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER is, as it sets out to be, an exemplary primer on the work of an extraordinary writer.” @niallharrison reviews work from Carol Emshwiller locusmag.com/review/...
September 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Has everyone bought their copies of Moon Songs?
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Google Books Ngram Viewer
Google Ngrams: spooktacular, 1800-2022
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September 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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tfw you’ve got a ball
September 19, 2025 at 12:44 AM
tfw you’ve got a ball
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"Politics is not the nursery."
www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it
www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it
This Is It
Obedience and Support are the Same
www.unpopularfront.news
September 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"Politics is not the nursery."
www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it
www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it
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Announcement: my new book is BEAST MODE
September 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Announcement: my new book is BEAST MODE
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The weeks round up: @bdmcclay.bsky.social on Sydney Sweeney; @jackhanson.bsky.social on "perfomativity:" @williamhogeland.bsky.social on TCW's bad history and more!
www.unpopularfront.news/p/good-takes...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/good-takes...
Good Takes on Bad Discourse; Hindsight on 2020; The Age of Innocence
Reading, Watching 09.07.25
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September 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The weeks round up: @bdmcclay.bsky.social on Sydney Sweeney; @jackhanson.bsky.social on "perfomativity:" @williamhogeland.bsky.social on TCW's bad history and more!
www.unpopularfront.news/p/good-takes...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/good-takes...
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I’m a firm believer that with SHIN GODZILLA returning to theaters, Toho should also re-release the figurines of the kaiju giving apologetic press conferences.
August 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I’m a firm believer that with SHIN GODZILLA returning to theaters, Toho should also re-release the figurines of the kaiju giving apologetic press conferences.
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had a pretty good day but I've concluded I can just never tell when my vizier is being polite or scheming against me
August 4, 2025 at 3:36 AM
had a pretty good day but I've concluded I can just never tell when my vizier is being polite or scheming against me
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My NYT op-ed this morning
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
www.nytimes.com
July 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
My NYT op-ed this morning
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
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"It has a really nostalgic feel" this thing is from before you were born you have nostalgia for that like you have nostalgia for Narnia
July 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"It has a really nostalgic feel" this thing is from before you were born you have nostalgia for that like you have nostalgia for Narnia
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I hate anxiety! I was just drinking paint and I got this awful feeling that it has lead in it, even though I know I would never buy lead drinking paint, but the feeling just gnawed at me until I checked. I wish I could just be normal and enjoy my paint.
July 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I hate anxiety! I was just drinking paint and I got this awful feeling that it has lead in it, even though I know I would never buy lead drinking paint, but the feeling just gnawed at me until I checked. I wish I could just be normal and enjoy my paint.
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I laughed so hard I dropped my phone into the abyss under the ottoman
July 1, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I laughed so hard I dropped my phone into the abyss under the ottoman
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Next year we're reissuing Nancy Lemann's Lives of the Saints along with a new book, The Oyster Diaries, two sections of which were published in The Paris Review.
“Usually I skip the articles and go straight to the comments section. Because it provides more technical info.”
Nancy Lemann on comments sections.
Nancy Lemann on comments sections.
buff.ly
June 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Next year we're reissuing Nancy Lemann's Lives of the Saints along with a new book, The Oyster Diaries, two sections of which were published in The Paris Review.
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I like all 3 types of movies: Period, Gay, and Fincher
June 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I like all 3 types of movies: Period, Gay, and Fincher
submitting a "chaos" ballot to the nyt thing bc i don't watch enough movies to do an informed one
June 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
submitting a "chaos" ballot to the nyt thing bc i don't watch enough movies to do an informed one
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CHILDREN OF MEN is going to place “surprisingly” high on the NYT Best Movies of the Century list (like #7) and it’s going to formally occasion the Strange New Respect that we all know is coming so I just want to say I have been riding for that movie since I was a sophomore in high school
June 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
CHILDREN OF MEN is going to place “surprisingly” high on the NYT Best Movies of the Century list (like #7) and it’s going to formally occasion the Strange New Respect that we all know is coming so I just want to say I have been riding for that movie since I was a sophomore in high school
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Breaking News: Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller who is running for mayor, was detained by ICE agents at an immigration court as he tried to escort a migrant out of the courthouse to prevent his arrest. nyti.ms/4jWkANE
June 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Breaking News: Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller who is running for mayor, was detained by ICE agents at an immigration court as he tried to escort a migrant out of the courthouse to prevent his arrest. nyti.ms/4jWkANE
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Lander and Padilla have set the standard that absolutely every Democratic politician should meet or exceed if they don't want to get primaried.
June 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Lander and Padilla have set the standard that absolutely every Democratic politician should meet or exceed if they don't want to get primaried.
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i can't read the words "A Deskful of Girls" without seeing in my head this scene from Dames (1934)
June 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
i can't read the words "A Deskful of Girls" without seeing in my head this scene from Dames (1934)
at @thepointmag.bsky.social I wrote about my fav fritz leiber story thepointmag.com/criticism/hi...
Hidden Fears and Secret Dreams | The Point Magazine
This is the second column in a four-part series by B.D. McClay on speculative fiction. Read the first here. People don’t really understand each other: […]
thepointmag.com
June 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
at @thepointmag.bsky.social I wrote about my fav fritz leiber story thepointmag.com/criticism/hi...
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Hi everyone
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
June 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Hi everyone
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
wrote about my favorite Austen novel www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/06...
I Can Read You Like A Book: On Northanger Abbey by B. D. McClay
June 9, 2025 – “How are people, at any rate, to be understood?”
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June 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
wrote about my favorite Austen novel www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/06...
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New pricing policy: a book's retail price goes up by $1 for every 100 words I have to manually italicize in it. This one will be up for preorder soon for $499.99.
May 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
New pricing policy: a book's retail price goes up by $1 for every 100 words I have to manually italicize in it. This one will be up for preorder soon for $499.99.