Elena Saavedra Buckley
@elenamsb.bsky.social
senior editor at Harper's / contrib at The Drift
www.esaavedrabuckley.com
www.esaavedrabuckley.com
You guys reading this over here? A pleasure to work with the genius Daniel Kolitz on this piece. It's about, well, What's Going On, and few things really are. harpers.org/archive/2025...
The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz
Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation
harpers.org
October 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
You guys reading this over here? A pleasure to work with the genius Daniel Kolitz on this piece. It's about, well, What's Going On, and few things really are. harpers.org/archive/2025...
I've been totally captivated by a bagpiper named Brìghde Chaimbeul for years, and I got to profile her in
@newyorker.com. "The drone is the first sound," La Monte Young wrote... so true!!! www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...
@newyorker.com. "The drone is the first sound," La Monte Young wrote... so true!!! www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...
The Musician Bringing the Bagpipes Into the Avant-Garde
Brìghde Chaimbeul frees her instrument from the confines of kitsch.
www.newyorker.com
August 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I've been totally captivated by a bagpiper named Brìghde Chaimbeul for years, and I got to profile her in
@newyorker.com. "The drone is the first sound," La Monte Young wrote... so true!!! www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...
@newyorker.com. "The drone is the first sound," La Monte Young wrote... so true!!! www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...
Grateful that I got to work on this piece by Victor J. Blue and Annie Correal for the magazine: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Their Mass Rape Went Unpunished. Four Decades Later, They Fought Back.
Systematically assaulted during Guatemala’s civil war, 36 Mayan women made a final bid for justice.
www.nytimes.com
July 31, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Grateful that I got to work on this piece by Victor J. Blue and Annie Correal for the magazine: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Reposted by Elena Saavedra Buckley
How 36 women got justice decades later in Guatemala
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How 36 Mayan Women in Guatemala Came Together to Prosecute Their Attackers
Systematically assaulted during Guatemala’s civil war, 36 Mayan women made a final bid for justice.
www.nytimes.com
July 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
How 36 women got justice decades later in Guatemala
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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"if we pay attention not to what Americans say, but to what they do, then the US is a country that discovered debt as a natural resource around 2000, and has been exporting it ever since." www.ft.com/content/95a7... so good @bhgreeley.bsky.social
Does the US have Dutch disease?
The exorbitant burden of exporting dollars makes it hard for America to govern at home
www.ft.com
July 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
"if we pay attention not to what Americans say, but to what they do, then the US is a country that discovered debt as a natural resource around 2000, and has been exporting it ever since." www.ft.com/content/95a7... so good @bhgreeley.bsky.social
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Didn’t get a ticket to our sold-out twitter panel? You can still hear from @elenamsb.bsky.social, @edwardongwesojr.com, Willy Staley, Delia Cai, and Sam Adler-Bell by tuning in to the livestream at the link below:
nyu.zoom.us/j/98727685171
nyu.zoom.us/j/98727685171
April 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Didn’t get a ticket to our sold-out twitter panel? You can still hear from @elenamsb.bsky.social, @edwardongwesojr.com, Willy Staley, Delia Cai, and Sam Adler-Bell by tuning in to the livestream at the link below:
nyu.zoom.us/j/98727685171
nyu.zoom.us/j/98727685171
Reposted by Elena Saavedra Buckley
Twitter has been declared dead many times over — and yet it’s stuck around. On April 16, join The Drift, @edwardongwesojr.com, Willy Staley, Sam Adler-Bell, and Delia Cai in considering the site’s lasting impact. Moderated by @elenamsb.bsky.social. RSVP below!
events.nyu.edu/event/359260...
events.nyu.edu/event/359260...
April 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Twitter has been declared dead many times over — and yet it’s stuck around. On April 16, join The Drift, @edwardongwesojr.com, Willy Staley, Sam Adler-Bell, and Delia Cai in considering the site’s lasting impact. Moderated by @elenamsb.bsky.social. RSVP below!
events.nyu.edu/event/359260...
events.nyu.edu/event/359260...
@carlos-barragan.bsky.social hi carlos! hoping to reach you via email—happy to DM here or you can email me at elena@harpers.org. thank you!
March 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
@carlos-barragan.bsky.social hi carlos! hoping to reach you via email—happy to DM here or you can email me at elena@harpers.org. thank you!
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For years, the public has called them "fake artists." But internally at Spotify, the program has a name: Perfect Fit Content. My investigation, and the first look into my book Mood Machine, is the January cover at @harpers.bsky.social. Online now & on newsstands next week
harpers.org/archive/2025...
harpers.org/archive/2025...
December 18, 2024 at 7:58 PM
For years, the public has called them "fake artists." But internally at Spotify, the program has a name: Perfect Fit Content. My investigation, and the first look into my book Mood Machine, is the January cover at @harpers.bsky.social. Online now & on newsstands next week
harpers.org/archive/2025...
harpers.org/archive/2025...
Reposted by Elena Saavedra Buckley
my wife has informed me that @thedrift-mag.bsky.social has made it into the potter barn teen display
December 6, 2024 at 2:45 AM
my wife has informed me that @thedrift-mag.bsky.social has made it into the potter barn teen display
Does Bluesky like food pics?? Here’s my pumpkin mousse in particularly Shaker-esque lighting
November 29, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Does Bluesky like food pics?? Here’s my pumpkin mousse in particularly Shaker-esque lighting
After you invest in Dan's bar invest in mine: a normal bar but with a bunch of flight simulators stalls, and you get drunk while flight simulating. It's called: Flight Simulator
thought about starting a bar where you get rained on while reading poetry but then realized people already drink in the shower & have other ways of ruining books
November 22, 2024 at 1:17 AM
After you invest in Dan's bar invest in mine: a normal bar but with a bunch of flight simulators stalls, and you get drunk while flight simulating. It's called: Flight Simulator
Once Bluesky plugs in all its new servers I'm going to rip a portal in the feed's continuum and teleport to the "hill" Jay Leno "fell down" near the Hampton Inn 30 miles outside of Pittsburgh—to see what really happened.
November 20, 2024 at 10:52 PM
Once Bluesky plugs in all its new servers I'm going to rip a portal in the feed's continuum and teleport to the "hill" Jay Leno "fell down" near the Hampton Inn 30 miles outside of Pittsburgh—to see what really happened.
(Professional bsky post) Erik will discuss his Harper's piece at this tn <3 harpers.org/archive/2024...
November 20, 2024 at 9:38 PM
(Professional bsky post) Erik will discuss his Harper's piece at this tn <3 harpers.org/archive/2024...
Feeding my Bsky algorithm: does anyone want to watch "LOGISTICS" (2012), the 857-hours-long documentary about a pedometer manufactured in Shenzhen and being shipped to Stockholm (in reverse) with me?
November 20, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Feeding my Bsky algorithm: does anyone want to watch "LOGISTICS" (2012), the 857-hours-long documentary about a pedometer manufactured in Shenzhen and being shipped to Stockholm (in reverse) with me?
The Cormac McCarthy VF piece taught me that there is always at least one more guy that looks like Jack Schlossberg than you realized
November 20, 2024 at 8:40 PM
The Cormac McCarthy VF piece taught me that there is always at least one more guy that looks like Jack Schlossberg than you realized
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.
November 20, 2024 at 8:21 PM
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.