Jonny Diamond
@jonnydiamond.bsky.social
Editor of Lit Hub, writer, not-so-secretly Canadian.
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Ok, yes, this is a public health–adjacent account -- but some of us are also literary nerds. And seeing Joyce Carol Oates roast Elon Musk on his own platform? Just what we needed on an otherwise sh**ty day.
Elon Musk gets roasted on his own platform by Joyce Carol Oates.
Like an ancient cyborg culling through the ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet (twitter, derogatory), Joyce Carol Oates recently fired her full-power death ray at aspiring trillionaire Elon Musk, wh…
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November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Ok, yes, this is a public health–adjacent account -- but some of us are also literary nerds. And seeing Joyce Carol Oates roast Elon Musk on his own platform? Just what we needed on an otherwise sh**ty day.
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How did New Yorkers elect a democratic socialist as their mayor? We have a reading list for that.
Want to understand the Zohran phenomenon? Here’s a mini reading list.
Have you thanked a bodega cat today? Remember, they won’t be getting raises under the new administration. For 51% of New York City bipeds, however, it’s a pretty great week. Zohran Mamd…
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November 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
How did New Yorkers elect a democratic socialist as their mayor? We have a reading list for that.
I love this by Peter Coviello (former chair of Africana Studies at yes, Bowdoin). Very smart AND very funny. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I love this by Peter Coviello (former chair of Africana Studies at yes, Bowdoin). Very smart AND very funny. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
God I hate these f*ckers so much
NEW: On the shadow docket, the Supreme Court lets Trump resume misgendering trans Americans on their passports, claiming "the government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
![This case concerns an Executive Branch policy requiring
all new passports to display an individual’s biological sex at
birth. The United States District Court for the District of
Massachusetts preliminarily enjoined the Government
from enforcing the policy, and the First Circuit declined to
stay the injunction pending appeal. The Government then
filed this stay application. Applying our familiar stay fac-
tors at this preliminary stage, we grant the application.
Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends
equal protection principles than displaying their country of
birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to
a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential
treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to
establish that the Government’s choice to display biological
sex “lack[s] any purpose other than a bare . . . desire to
harm a politically unpopular group.” Trump v. Hawaii, 585
U. S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted).
Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the
State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by de-
clining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress ex-
pressly required it to follow. See 22 U. S. C. §211a.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiacrtgoecxjy5y7ojz7xzbun4c4nwutjcvqn4qb4p25ldpt6va5lu@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
God I hate these f*ckers so much
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I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...
When We Devalue Art (Books!) We Devalue the Future
When you’ve spent your whole adult life working in and around book publishing you get used to hearing that people don’t read anymore and that the industry is on its last legs. There is always a cri…
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November 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...
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In Myth America, edited by @kevinmkruse.bsky.social and Julian E. Zelizer, Michael Kazin examines the far-reaching influence of socialism on American political thought.
A Brief History of American Socialism
“America will never be a socialist country,” declared Donald Trump in his 2019 State of the Union Address, given to a joint session of Congress. The president clearly believed that fear of such a r…
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November 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
In Myth America, edited by @kevinmkruse.bsky.social and Julian E. Zelizer, Michael Kazin examines the far-reaching influence of socialism on American political thought.
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This is what she's posting rn fyi. Just pure racism!
November 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This is what she's posting rn fyi. Just pure racism!
This really sucks; they were doing brave, important work. It seems like everyone with money and power right now has it at the expense of principled conviction.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This really sucks; they were doing brave, important work. It seems like everyone with money and power right now has it at the expense of principled conviction.
Proud to be on this list with an incredible group of writers and thinkers doing the right thing. lithub.com/300-pledge-t...
300+ pledge to boycott the New York Times’ op-ed page over their anti-Palestinian bias.
Over 300 writers, scholars, and public intellectuals have pledged to not contribute to the New York Times’ Opinion section until three demands have been met. The demands address the anti-Palestinia…
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October 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Proud to be on this list with an incredible group of writers and thinkers doing the right thing. lithub.com/300-pledge-t...
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What the fascist tech bros get wrong about Prometheus. (And yes, they do want to build a 450-foot statue on Alcatraz Island, in San Francisco Bay).
What the Fascist Tech Bros Get Wrong About Prometheus
Those crypto boys are at it again, this time proposing a giant, 450-foot-tall statue on of San Francisco Bay’s Alcatraz Island, according to local outlet KRON4. The statue would be of Prometheus, w…
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October 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
What the fascist tech bros get wrong about Prometheus. (And yes, they do want to build a 450-foot statue on Alcatraz Island, in San Francisco Bay).
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I just ordered a stack of Mark’s book to give away at the store.
ebbooksellers.com/item/9JsuMsJ...
Would be a shame if others did the same and landed it at least on regional bestseller lists.
ebbooksellers.com/item/9JsuMsJ...
Would be a shame if others did the same and landed it at least on regional bestseller lists.
October 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I just ordered a stack of Mark’s book to give away at the store.
ebbooksellers.com/item/9JsuMsJ...
Would be a shame if others did the same and landed it at least on regional bestseller lists.
ebbooksellers.com/item/9JsuMsJ...
Would be a shame if others did the same and landed it at least on regional bestseller lists.
Here’s Mark Bray beating the brakes of Dinesh D’Souza in 2017. lithub.com/why-we-shoul...
Why We Should Pay Attention to Dinesh D’Souza’s Terrible Book About Fascism
Is Donald Trump a fascist? Did millions of Americans vote for an orange Mussolini? Well, recently the far-right commentator Dinesh D’Souza published a book intended not only to ease the consciences…
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October 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Here’s Mark Bray beating the brakes of Dinesh D’Souza in 2017. lithub.com/why-we-shoul...
I wrote about what we can all learn from the courage of Czech dissidents. lithub.com/how-a-1977-c...
How a 1977 Czech Writers’ Manifesto Applies to the Stark Realities of America in 2025
The wonderful Czech writer Ivan Klima died this past weekend at the age of 94. Klima lived a remarkable, principled life, having survived both the Nazi occupation of Prague (he spent three years in…
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October 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I wrote about what we can all learn from the courage of Czech dissidents. lithub.com/how-a-1977-c...
Incredible (and funny) story here from Philip Roth about visiting Ivan Klima in Prague. lithub.com/he-comes-for...
“He Comes for the Girls.” Philip Roth on Getting Kicked Out of Prague
From 1972 through 1977, I traveled to Prague every spring for a week or ten days to see a group of writers, journalists, historians, and professors there who were being persecuted by the Soviet-bac…
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October 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Incredible (and funny) story here from Philip Roth about visiting Ivan Klima in Prague. lithub.com/he-comes-for...
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Strongly recommend MY MERRY MORNINGS along with the titles @jonnydiamond.bsky.social includes here. I met Ivan Klima as a baby bookseller when he finally was allowed to travel. Life-changing for me: smoking cigarettes with him in the bookstore backroom.
Ivan Klima, the best Czech novelist of his generation, has died.
One of the great Czech writers of the 20th century, Ivan Klima, died over the weekend at his home in Prague, at the age of 94. Klima lived an incredible, principled life, having survived both the N…
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October 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Strongly recommend MY MERRY MORNINGS along with the titles @jonnydiamond.bsky.social includes here. I met Ivan Klima as a baby bookseller when he finally was allowed to travel. Life-changing for me: smoking cigarettes with him in the bookstore backroom.
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I wrote about how the road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. lithub.com/the-real-thr...
The Real Threat to Free Speech in America is From the Right, Not the Left—Stop Pretending Otherwise
The road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. For years we’ve been told that the censorious Left is a serious threat to free speech. If Simon & Schuster cancels one book because the pu…
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October 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I wrote about how the road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. lithub.com/the-real-thr...
Did @andrewervin.bsky.social introduce Krasznahorkai to the American masses? (aka Philly alt weekly readers c. 2001)
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Is This the First-Ever English Language Review of László Krasznahorkai?
My love of Hungarian literature began in 1994, when my college girlfriend moved to Budapest to study music at the Liszt Academy and I followed her a few months later. We planned to stay for nine mo…
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October 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Did @andrewervin.bsky.social introduce Krasznahorkai to the American masses? (aka Philly alt weekly readers c. 2001)
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Between Pynchon and Krasznahorkai absolutely HUGE week for brodernism. I see you, and I salute you my dudes.
October 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Between Pynchon and Krasznahorkai absolutely HUGE week for brodernism. I see you, and I salute you my dudes.
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Had a ball reporting on the midnight Shadow Ticket release party, over @literaryhub.bsky.social ! 💃
In Line With All the Pynchon Fans at the Midnight Release of Shadow Ticket
It’s 10:30pm on a Monday, and a line a dozen deep has formed outside Greenlight Books in Brooklyn. A dapper employee in suspenders and fedora comes out to give instructions—we’re to “say we know To…
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October 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Had a ball reporting on the midnight Shadow Ticket release party, over @literaryhub.bsky.social ! 💃
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"where's the left media?" "where's fact-checked reporting?"
lately @teenvogue.com has run profiles: of Assata Shakur's revolutionary history; a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist; what's happening in Chicago's ICE protests; and organizing supporting LGBTQ+ youth
📍 www.teenvogue.com/news-politics
lately @teenvogue.com has run profiles: of Assata Shakur's revolutionary history; a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist; what's happening in Chicago's ICE protests; and organizing supporting LGBTQ+ youth
📍 www.teenvogue.com/news-politics
![Politics
Hurricane Helene Devastated Asheville. A Local LGBTQ+ Organization Is Supporting Youth — With Cash
“We know that [direct cash transfers] are the number one support for preventing youth homelessness.”
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October 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
"where's the left media?" "where's fact-checked reporting?"
lately @teenvogue.com has run profiles: of Assata Shakur's revolutionary history; a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist; what's happening in Chicago's ICE protests; and organizing supporting LGBTQ+ youth
📍 www.teenvogue.com/news-politics
lately @teenvogue.com has run profiles: of Assata Shakur's revolutionary history; a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist; what's happening in Chicago's ICE protests; and organizing supporting LGBTQ+ youth
📍 www.teenvogue.com/news-politics
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it's Shadow Ticket pub day — up now on @literaryhub.bsky.social I wrote about Pynchon in the culture. thanks for check'n it out
lithub.com/thomas-pynch... @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
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October 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
it's Shadow Ticket pub day — up now on @literaryhub.bsky.social I wrote about Pynchon in the culture. thanks for check'n it out
lithub.com/thomas-pynch... @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
lithub.com/thomas-pynch... @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
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“Personally, I believe that anxiety and dread are perfectly natural responses to the times.”
My latest for LitHub:
lithub.com/tending-to-t...
My latest for LitHub:
lithub.com/tending-to-t...
Tending to the Garden of American Democracy is Hard and Thankless Work
In Jerzy Kosinski’s 1971 novel Being There, a simple gardener named Chance is mistaken for a political guru and quickly wows the Washington D.C. power brokers and kingmakers. It’s a marvelous study…
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October 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
“Personally, I believe that anxiety and dread are perfectly natural responses to the times.”
My latest for LitHub:
lithub.com/tending-to-t...
My latest for LitHub:
lithub.com/tending-to-t...