Jacob Bacharach
@jacobbacharach.bsky.social
Novelist, critic, books about crooks.
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Les chats, Ezekiel et Napoléon
January 31, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Les chats, Ezekiel et Napoléon
I wrote a sonnet about an ethical question.
January 30, 2026 at 11:40 AM
I wrote a sonnet about an ethical question.
The Seventh Guest Bath
January 28, 2026 at 7:10 PM
The Seventh Guest Bath
Computer, enhance
January 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Computer, enhance
They're calling it, winter.
January 25, 2026 at 2:17 PM
They're calling it, winter.
This is Pittsburgh hate and I won't tolerate it.
January 19, 2026 at 11:24 PM
This is Pittsburgh hate and I won't tolerate it.
I wrote a sonnet about your Country refusing me the Nobel Peace Prize.
January 19, 2026 at 1:20 PM
I wrote a sonnet about your Country refusing me the Nobel Peace Prize.
Some are saying that it is falling faintly. Others? That it is faintly falling. But more and more people agree, it is doing so on the living AND on the dead.
January 18, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Some are saying that it is falling faintly. Others? That it is faintly falling. But more and more people agree, it is doing so on the living AND on the dead.
We must amass currency that will be 100% devalued. Open the b-schools!
January 18, 2026 at 12:57 PM
We must amass currency that will be 100% devalued. Open the b-schools!
I gotta believe that @daveweigel.bsky.social could walk into a Ye Olde Pickle Factory without this much backup . . . and live to tell the tale.
January 15, 2026 at 3:51 PM
I gotta believe that @daveweigel.bsky.social could walk into a Ye Olde Pickle Factory without this much backup . . . and live to tell the tale.
Been screaming since the 2010s that higher ed must reinvest in humanities and social sciences in the face of advances in machine learning and automation. Can universities learn, or are we determined to make ourselves the victims of sunk costs?
January 14, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Been screaming since the 2010s that higher ed must reinvest in humanities and social sciences in the face of advances in machine learning and automation. Can universities learn, or are we determined to make ourselves the victims of sunk costs?
Having reinvented DEI and Woke, the Right is now reinventing the higher-education spurious disability accommodations request industrial complex.
January 11, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Having reinvented DEI and Woke, the Right is now reinventing the higher-education spurious disability accommodations request industrial complex.
It's funny--and remarkably appropros, when you think about it--that the New York Times releasing its long interview with Donald Trump in the same manner as Ryan Lizza releasing his grievances with Olivia Nuzzi.
January 9, 2026 at 5:26 PM
It's funny--and remarkably appropros, when you think about it--that the New York Times releasing its long interview with Donald Trump in the same manner as Ryan Lizza releasing his grievances with Olivia Nuzzi.
The woke right strikes again.
January 9, 2026 at 11:40 AM
The woke right strikes again.
I wrote a sonnet about the nice, thin blood pouring through Donald Trump's heart.
January 1, 2026 at 1:47 PM
I wrote a sonnet about the nice, thin blood pouring through Donald Trump's heart.
Columns,,,, r my passion
December 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Columns,,,, r my passion
They're calling it North Carolina
December 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
They're calling it North Carolina
Decided to add to the menagerie. Folks, it's Ezekiel.
December 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Decided to add to the menagerie. Folks, it's Ezekiel.
Buddy, I couldn't get her to shut up when she was alive.
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Buddy, I couldn't get her to shut up when she was alive.
I don't know what to say, but I had to share.
December 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I don't know what to say, but I had to share.
I wrote a sonnet about Greta Gerwig's Narnia.
December 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I wrote a sonnet about Greta Gerwig's Narnia.
I want to replace my hybrid car with a full electric and every part of my auto-evaluating brain says "Hyundai Ioniq 5" except for a devilish little aesthete and prophet deep in my soul that looks at the deliberate retro styling and whispers, "Remember the PT Cruiser."
December 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I want to replace my hybrid car with a full electric and every part of my auto-evaluating brain says "Hyundai Ioniq 5" except for a devilish little aesthete and prophet deep in my soul that looks at the deliberate retro styling and whispers, "Remember the PT Cruiser."