Emma Sarappo
@emmasarappo.bsky.social
a books editor at The Atlantic and spreadsheet lady for its union. once described as "friendly" on eBird
mods asleep post mr. nipples
I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane
February 5, 2026 at 10:41 PM
mods asleep post mr. nipples
I've been reading Marty since I moved to D.C. which represents ... an incredibly small fraction of his time at the Post www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
He Was Laid Off at The Washington Post After Working There 60 Years
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February 5, 2026 at 3:12 PM
I've been reading Marty since I moved to D.C. which represents ... an incredibly small fraction of his time at the Post www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
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The Washington Post has laid off hundreds of talented journalists, so many of whom I was lucky to work with over the years.
The Post Guild launched this fund to support them:
The Post Guild launched this fund to support them:
Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel
On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund
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February 4, 2026 at 4:04 PM
The Washington Post has laid off hundreds of talented journalists, so many of whom I was lucky to work with over the years.
The Post Guild launched this fund to support them:
The Post Guild launched this fund to support them:
REAL the best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity hours.
February 4, 2026 at 3:18 PM
REAL the best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity hours.
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It’s important to keep in mind the existence of a lot of antipathy toward D.C. specifically, and its limited capacity to protect itself because of its relationship to the federal government.
With the closing of the Kennedy Center and the cuts at the Post, the Washington, DC metro area has lost its biggest arts institution and of its largest local journalism outlet.
February 4, 2026 at 3:10 PM
It’s important to keep in mind the existence of a lot of antipathy toward D.C. specifically, and its limited capacity to protect itself because of its relationship to the federal government.
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I wish I had written this! Really good overview of a cultural strain I've been bringing up in meetings for a long time defector.com/fanfictions-...
Fanfiction’s Total Cultural Victory | Defector
In 2012, a self-published author of erotic Twilight fanfiction, whose books had gained a large fan base online, was offered a seven-figure contract by a major American publisher. E.L. James’s Fifty Sh...
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February 2, 2026 at 7:10 PM
I wish I had written this! Really good overview of a cultural strain I've been bringing up in meetings for a long time defector.com/fanfictions-...
the 30th anni of Infinite Jest means 10 years of committed Jestheadism on my part: I picked it up as a depressed pothead; like Hermione Hoby writes, "I was unaware that I was committing a form of gender treason; I knew only that little or nothing I’d read had come close in terms of sheer pleasure."
January 27, 2026 at 4:00 PM
the 30th anni of Infinite Jest means 10 years of committed Jestheadism on my part: I picked it up as a depressed pothead; like Hermione Hoby writes, "I was unaware that I was committing a form of gender treason; I knew only that little or nothing I’d read had come close in terms of sheer pleasure."
"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong
The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.
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January 27, 2026 at 2:47 PM
"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Sad Tiger was one of the best books I read last year
Announcing the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Finalists for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize!
January 20, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Sad Tiger was one of the best books I read last year
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When the AI slop summer reading list dropped last year I knew I had to write about making book lists. Thanks to @thebaffler.com for letting me go long with bewildered nostalgia & regret on 20 years of Internet book culture & how we made the slop book list inevitable. thebaffler.com/after-the-fa...
List and Shout | Lydia Kiesling
The labor involved in making lists was as close to the opposite of a transcendent reading experience as a disillusioned culture worker could get.
thebaffler.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:18 PM
When the AI slop summer reading list dropped last year I knew I had to write about making book lists. Thanks to @thebaffler.com for letting me go long with bewildered nostalgia & regret on 20 years of Internet book culture & how we made the slop book list inevitable. thebaffler.com/after-the-fa...
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wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
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“Because no one can read everything, specific and achievable objectives are crucial,” @emmasarappo.bsky.social writes. She shares a reading resolution you can actually keep in 2026:
A Reading Resolution You Can Keep
Aim to bump older, culturally important, or much-recommended works to the top of your to-be-read list.
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January 2, 2026 at 9:00 PM
“Because no one can read everything, specific and achievable objectives are crucial,” @emmasarappo.bsky.social writes. She shares a reading resolution you can actually keep in 2026:
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Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s novel, “Your Name Here,” is wry, convoluted, and not for everyone. Yet it offers a surprisingly moving argument for spiky, irregular, sometimes even incomplete literature, Robert Rubsam writes.
A Bizarre, Challenging Book More People Should Read
The true pleasure of literature can be found in demanding works such as Your Name Here, by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff.
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January 1, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s novel, “Your Name Here,” is wry, convoluted, and not for everyone. Yet it offers a surprisingly moving argument for spiky, irregular, sometimes even incomplete literature, Robert Rubsam writes.
was just reminded that my best friend’s boyfriend (Mexican) (visited the US for the first time this year) is an ardent Buffalo Bills fan (??) (can’t account for this) (he is literally from Sonora). Tonight he gets this country’s greatest tradition: Watching December football in the suburbs
December 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
was just reminded that my best friend’s boyfriend (Mexican) (visited the US for the first time this year) is an ardent Buffalo Bills fan (??) (can’t account for this) (he is literally from Sonora). Tonight he gets this country’s greatest tradition: Watching December football in the suburbs
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For @theatlantic.com I wrote about Joe Sacco's search for the essential truth, from Bosnia to Gaza to Uttar Pradesh: www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
A Cartoonist’s Complicated Search for the Truth
In his newest book, Joe Sacco worries about the kind of future that political violence might create.
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December 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
For @theatlantic.com I wrote about Joe Sacco's search for the essential truth, from Bosnia to Gaza to Uttar Pradesh: www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
this is absolutely wrenching to read, i hate that they know the procedure. once in college i got an active shooter text and we barricaded a room in the student center—it ended up being a SWAT hoax but it has not left me years and years later. i can still remember that room. nymag.com/intelligence...
12 Hours at Brown
With a gunman on the loose, students build barricades, frisk classmates, and prepare to fight.
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December 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
this is absolutely wrenching to read, i hate that they know the procedure. once in college i got an active shooter text and we barricaded a room in the student center—it ended up being a SWAT hoax but it has not left me years and years later. i can still remember that room. nymag.com/intelligence...
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i find myself charmed by this ongoing series the FT is doing that can be summed up by the idea of "washington dc is a real place"
Yes, DC is actually a great place to party
Forget what you’ve heard about Washington nightlife. There’s a Latin scene, a queer scene, underground techno, old-school R&B — and you can still be home by 3am
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December 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
i find myself charmed by this ongoing series the FT is doing that can be summed up by the idea of "washington dc is a real place"
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The Atlantic’s editors pick their favorite books of the year—10 titles that distinguish themselves as worth reading and remembering. See the full list: theatln.tc/gaJVrZ7O
December 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The Atlantic’s editors pick their favorite books of the year—10 titles that distinguish themselves as worth reading and remembering. See the full list: theatln.tc/gaJVrZ7O
This is my going-on-eight-year agenda: DC Is a Nice Place to Live
DC is nice, man. the bike lanes are coming along, Metro is pretty good, drivers are not psychopaths, etc. miss this place
December 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
This is my going-on-eight-year agenda: DC Is a Nice Place to Live
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be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
December 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
Beautiful story about the Nashville of my youth*
*I didn’t ride this carousel (I just checked with my dad) because my parents didn’t want to pay to put me on it
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/a...
*I didn’t ride this carousel (I just checked with my dad) because my parents didn’t want to pay to put me on it
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/a...
Nashville Closed a Red Grooms Masterpiece. Now the City Wants It Back.
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November 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Beautiful story about the Nashville of my youth*
*I didn’t ride this carousel (I just checked with my dad) because my parents didn’t want to pay to put me on it
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/a...
*I didn’t ride this carousel (I just checked with my dad) because my parents didn’t want to pay to put me on it
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/a...
@washingtonspirit.com I love you so much this was me waiting in line for a full capacity bar (I got in) (don’t let me down)
November 23, 2025 at 2:12 AM
@washingtonspirit.com I love you so much this was me waiting in line for a full capacity bar (I got in) (don’t let me down)
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"If Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair and the other late 20th century fakers were looking for the prestige and power that came with journalism in that moment, then this generation’s internet scammers are scavenging in the wreckage of a degraded media environment."
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
"If Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair and the other late 20th century fakers were looking for the prestige and power that came with journalism in that moment, then this generation’s internet scammers are scavenging in the wreckage of a degraded media environment."