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Casey Johnston
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Buy my book, A PHYSICAL EDUCATION, a Bookshop Best Seller!
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/casey-johnston/a-physical-education/9781538773253/

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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · May 6
Today is the day! My book is out in the world. It’s not a friendly world for writing about science or women or especially women’s bodies right now. But I’m so proud to be telling a story that makes a certain type of person very, very angry. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/casey...
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Best non-fiction book I’ve read this year. Inspirational.
caseyjohnston.bsky.social Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · May 6
Today is the day! My book is out in the world. It’s not a friendly world for writing about science or women or especially women’s bodies right now. But I’m so proud to be telling a story that makes a certain type of person very, very angry. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/casey...
December 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Liftoff was life changing for me. I finally found a way to exercise that I didn't quit after 2 weeks!
December 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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I’m sorry but BOTH my books are bestsellers???
I’m sorry BOTH???
I’m sorry but BOTH??????
bookshop.org/lists/bestse...
Bestselling Nonfiction Books of 2025
Checkout out this list on Bookshop
bookshop.org
December 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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What started as relief that RFK Jr. did not go shirtless this time quickly curdled into a creeping suspicion that something was deeply wrong. That the "pull-ups" we were witnessing were not, in fact, real.

🙏 to @caseyjohnston.bsky.social for the sharp, much-needed clarity
RFK Jr. did zero pull-ups at the airport
"They count 20, but the number of actual pull-ups done here is zero."
www.motherjones.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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kiemzi.bsky.social
lol even as i clicked the link i was thinking "hope they ran it by @caseyjohnston.bsky.social "
December 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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1. Hat tip to @caseyjohnston.bsky.social's newsletter for reminding me to appreciate Hilma af Klint.

2. Unless you work for the NBA, Amazon or, uh, Emirates, you absolutely should not refer to this tournament as the "Emirates NBA Cup." Corporate branding agreements are not your style guides.
teamziller.bsky.social Tom Ziller @teamziller.bsky.social · 21d
Unlocked GMIB day. I ranked the 8 surviving NBA Cup teams in terms of what winning the Cup would mean for their season. The Lakers are last, of course. Who's first? www.teamziller.com/nba-cup-knoc...
The importance of winning the NBA Cup, ranked by contender
The NBA Cup knockout round is upon us. Who would actually benefit the most from winning the tournament?
www.teamziller.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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this is an insult to the concept of Japanese 7-Eleven www.shesabeast.co/checking-in-...
checking in on "Japanese 7-Eleven in America"
The execution is wanting. Plus: is protein "just expensive pee?"; how muscle memory works; get a hot water bottle. This is Link Letter 181!
www.shesabeast.co
December 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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has anyone ever actually gotten campaign texts to stop
December 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
caseyjohnston.bsky.social
this writer learned about the Turners from my book, 'A Physical Education.' Fun fact about APE is that I can tell which reviewers actually read it based on whether they got to this part or not, and let me tell you a hell of a lot of them conclude "cute story of a little girl who learns to exercise"
December 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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This essay inspired by the work of @caseyjohnston.bsky.social.
December 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Yeah everybody has a gift guide but OUR gift guide includes my perfect object: a pickle scented candle. Plus great soaps, spices, season tickets, and more. Also I got to do one last stint as a hand model for the image (something I did to make extra cash for a while many years ago).
COYOTE’s Guide to Gifts That In No Way Benefit Jeff Bezos
We’ve got dreamy soaps and candles, punk rock organizers, addictive beef jerky, and more.
www.coyotemedia.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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"Unluckily for collagen, I am possessed of a lot of time and have a keen sense of justice." 😍
December 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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This is an excellent rundown on collagen
December 3, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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This is a totally savage and fatal mauling of Big Collagen.
December 2, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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oooh buried fun fact even if you are not interested in collagen:
This is not an issue unique to collagen. For instance, a can of beans will state that it has 7g of protein per serving. But not all of that protein is going to be available to our bodies use, unless its amino acid profile is rounded out by a complementary source, like rice. (This "rounding out" can happen over a matter of days; it does not necessarily have to be within, for instance, the same meal.) the last parenthetical is highlighted
December 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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As the year comes to an end and everyone's contemplating how to either get healthier or slow their hastening decline, it's worth it to know that collagen supplements really are BS and what to eat/take instead 👀

(thank you Casey for lifting the paywall 💝)
December 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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FINE i have UNPAYWALLED this piece, and a MERRY CHRISTMAS to all EXCEPT FOR COLLAGEN
December 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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i just learned that my piece, Collagen sits on a throne of lies, was picked as a notable selection in Best American Science and Nature writing 2025! my haters are blue in the face to see a humble blog receive among the highest honors a science piece can get!
www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025
“The best science and nature writing—which these stories represent—reminds us of the wide world and our connection to it, and the multitude of ways we make ...
www.harpercollins.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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One of my favourite stories in women's health from 2025: The pelvic floor is a problem, by @caseyjohnston.bsky.social for @wired.com. www.wired.com/story/the-pe...
The Pelvic Floor Is a Problem
Everyone’s suddenly obsessed with the pelvic floor—physical therapists, MAHA influencers, me. Could this deeply misunderstood body part really be the seat of so much modern dysfunction?
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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O (2001), Ten Things I Hate About You (1999), Romeo and Juliet (1996), She’s the Man (2006)
samadams.bsky.social Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · Nov 28
not sure what Gen Z has to do with a 43-year-old’s adaptation of a 52-year-old’s novel—and lest you think it’s just the hed, the piece calls Hamnet “mumblecore Shakespeare, conceived for the TikTok generation,” never mind that mumblecore predates TikTok by like 20 years
November 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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you probably can't say this on tiktok but casey is absolutely right:
The idea that what you like, or what you should like, can be boiled down to a bunch of keywords—irreverent 18th-century cryptozooromance—is a lie that all the MBAs of the publishing world are desperate for you to believe. There are a million ineffable qualities of a writer’s voice and tone and style that can’t be captured or overcome by marketing, as much as marketers would like to think it’s possible.
November 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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"The beauty of books is how internal and subjective the experience is. I got so used to hanging my entire intellectual life out on the internet laundry line, Googling every object I encountered... Reading books has been restorative to my sense of my own experience."

🔥🔥🔥🔥

Very worthwhile read!
caseyjohnston.bsky.social Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · Nov 26
i got tired of "how to read more" advice from people who are book critics and don't own tvs and live in monasteries with no wifi, so here is some advice from someone with a terminal case of internet brain www.shesabeast.co/how-to-read-...
how to read more
from someone who actually struggles
www.shesabeast.co
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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I have started to keep an insanity list next to me, in particular when reading a #book. It's physical by choice, because if I have to pull out my phone to note something down I'll be sucked into all the app temptations.Game changed, @caseyjohnston.bsky.social

www.shesabeast.co/how-to-read-...
Field Notes notebook with a public transport seat in the background
November 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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underappreciated how many people *lost the ability to read* things of any length after the 2016 election. Including me! It took a couple years for me to stop feeling like my brain was tearing itself apart in anything approaching silence

… and not because anything “got better”
caseyjohnston.bsky.social Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · Nov 26
i got tired of "how to read more" advice from people who are book critics and don't own tvs and live in monasteries with no wifi, so here is some advice from someone with a terminal case of internet brain www.shesabeast.co/how-to-read-...
how to read more
from someone who actually struggles
www.shesabeast.co
November 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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greenwell.bsky.social
as a person who reads a lot and has been yelling for months about writers who don’t read, I wholeheartedly endorse Casey’s excellent advice—this bit especially. go to bookstores! go to the LIBRARY!
If you feel like you are not great at parsing a shelf, it's a skill worth developing as a reader. There is nothing like going to find a book you reasonably believe you will like, and finding it standing among hundreds of similarly interesting books, because you are working with shelves and sections, and not lists and "related"s. Again, of course, it doesn't mean you will like every book on that subject. But you might find you can pull a few more off the shelves. You don't have to actually read them all. Skim them at a table, put them back on a book cart, take one or a few home to browse some more. Freedom!
November 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM