Elon Green
@elongreen.bsky.social
LAST CALL (2021) and THE MAN NOBODY KILLED (2025) http://www.elongreen.com
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I reviewed a very good book, and got some thoughts out of my system. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/b...
Incredible quote:
"Hitting someone in the head is not what I would call torture." www.newsday.com/long-island/...
"Hitting someone in the head is not what I would call torture." www.newsday.com/long-island/...
Jeremy Allen guilty of first-degree murder after jury finds he tortured Christopher Hahn before killing him in East Quogue home
The jury reached its verdict Wednesday after a little over two hours of deliberations in a case that featured extensive surveillance footage from Jeremy Allen's home, which showed the victim's final h...
www.newsday.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Incredible quote:
"Hitting someone in the head is not what I would call torture." www.newsday.com/long-island/...
"Hitting someone in the head is not what I would call torture." www.newsday.com/long-island/...
Streicher Pack was right there
January 21, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Streicher Pack was right there
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Because we could all use a little distraction: I wrote about all the drama that's been brewing in Loving County, a land of oilfields and family feuds and, most recently, a takeover attempt by an outside group www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
The Battle for One of the Richest and Smallest Counties in Texas
A few families have been duelling for control of Loving County for decades. Then the followers of a hustle-culture influencer moved in.
www.newyorker.com
January 21, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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Working on a story that entails finding traces of an old social media presence. I am not good at this. Any of you experts at this sort of thing and would be willing to chat with me?
January 21, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Working on a story that entails finding traces of an old social media presence. I am not good at this. Any of you experts at this sort of thing and would be willing to chat with me?
funniest thing ever written about Rod Dreher.
January 21, 2026 at 1:42 PM
funniest thing ever written about Rod Dreher.
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probably forgot his kindle
INBOX: Air Force One (tail number 29000), which was carrying President Trump from Washington, D.C. to Davos, Switzerland, appears to be turning back. (h/t @PollTracker2024/X)
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January 21, 2026 at 3:38 AM
probably forgot his kindle
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Also, if you don't get a reference? Maybe you miss something, but it probably doesn't matter all that much. If Shakespeare needs you to know something, he tells you three times. (I use this a lot.)
January 21, 2026 at 3:32 AM
Also, if you don't get a reference? Maybe you miss something, but it probably doesn't matter all that much. If Shakespeare needs you to know something, he tells you three times. (I use this a lot.)
"I don’t mind flattering the reader. Often I’ll use obscure words and, even if the reader doesn’t know the word, he’ll feel flattered that you assume he knows the word." —Tom Wolfe
also an issue endemic to journalism. Publications are terrified of references readers might not get despite the fact that they are never more than a click away from enlightenment
"If you watch an episode of Cheers, you might hear references to foreign filmmakers, to classical musicians, to Russian novelists. The level of assumed knowledge back then was far greater; now, TV is rarely adventurous in its allusions."
January 21, 2026 at 3:23 AM
"I don’t mind flattering the reader. Often I’ll use obscure words and, even if the reader doesn’t know the word, he’ll feel flattered that you assume he knows the word." —Tom Wolfe
This was such a blast.
Many, many years ago I taught “Upon This Rock” to my undergrads and brought @elongreen.bsky.social in to talk about his banger of an annotation of it and it is a cherished pedagogical memory
niemanstoryboard.org/2014/08/01/a...
niemanstoryboard.org/2014/08/01/a...
Annotation: John Jeremiah Sullivan and "Upon This Rock" - Nieman Storyboard
[Editor’s note: John Jeremiah Sullivan‘s “Upon This Rock” is by now a modern classic of literary journalism: writer rents an RV, experiences a Christian rock festival (and certain revelations) with a ...
niemanstoryboard.org
January 21, 2026 at 1:06 AM
This was such a blast.
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Account is just getting set up, but if you’d like to follow my play I’M NOT THERE, coming to Lincoln, London, & elsewhere… www.instagram.com/imnotthere26...
January 20, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Account is just getting set up, but if you’d like to follow my play I’M NOT THERE, coming to Lincoln, London, & elsewhere… www.instagram.com/imnotthere26...
I know we’re not supposed to say that voters are stupid, but you can’t argue with the results.
If “I need something to vote for, not against” means you won’t vote *for* a fascist party to not be in charge, then you can go suck an egg, sorry.
January 20, 2026 at 9:11 PM
I know we’re not supposed to say that voters are stupid, but you can’t argue with the results.
And if you're looking for, essentially, a précis on Goetz... us.macmillan.com/books/978125... I chatted with him for a while, which was a deeply unsettling experience. It was if he'd been dropped on his head and was still living in the mid-'80s.
The first of the two books about Bernie Goetz is out today so both get profiled in the paper. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/b...
The Subway Vigilante Who Never Left Is Back
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:04 PM
And if you're looking for, essentially, a précis on Goetz... us.macmillan.com/books/978125... I chatted with him for a while, which was a deeply unsettling experience. It was if he'd been dropped on his head and was still living in the mid-'80s.
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There's mansplaining, and then there's mansplaining concentration camps to Andrea Pitzer
That seems like kind of a weird comparison historically. Things can be bad and not the same as a Nazi extermination camp.
January 20, 2026 at 12:29 PM
There's mansplaining, and then there's mansplaining concentration camps to Andrea Pitzer
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LinkedIn mindset.
Did Mendoza really just use the word “synergy” after he thanked God
January 20, 2026 at 4:22 AM
LinkedIn mindset.
Aspirational
January 20, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Aspirational
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to learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize
January 20, 2026 at 2:19 AM
to learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize
13yo and I saw Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe. Masterpiece.
January 20, 2026 at 12:17 AM
13yo and I saw Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe. Masterpiece.
chatting with book clubs is fun as hell.
January 20, 2026 at 12:12 AM
chatting with book clubs is fun as hell.
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a) Clare Malone is really great at this
b) Bari is basically Aimee Semple McPherson, and we know how that ends
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
b) Bari is basically Aimee Semple McPherson, and we know how that ends
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
January 19, 2026 at 2:23 PM
a) Clare Malone is really great at this
b) Bari is basically Aimee Semple McPherson, and we know how that ends
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
b) Bari is basically Aimee Semple McPherson, and we know how that ends
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Most conscious American:
January 19, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Most conscious American:
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recorded this last week
Why Congress Needs to Treat ICE Like the Ku Klux Klan
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
youtu.be
January 19, 2026 at 1:11 AM
recorded this last week