Jonny Diamond
@jonnydiamond.bsky.social
Editor of Lit Hub, writer, not-so-secretly Canadian.
Absolute loser shit from Taibbi and Kirn here.
Matt Taibbi criticizes the ICE protests in Minneapolis, and says Martin Luther King Jr. would not have approved of them.
Taibbi claims MLK would not support "guilt because of racial identity" or "bringing religion into it".
Taibbi claims MLK would not support "guilt because of racial identity" or "bringing religion into it".
January 22, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Absolute loser shit from Taibbi and Kirn here.
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I wrote about how Heated Rivalry is just the latest case of how publishers, with all their data, are still not able to predict what will be the next sensation. lithub.com/get-ready-fo...
Get Ready For Publishing to Chase the Heated Rivalry Phenomenon
Heated Rivalry mania has swept the world, and it’s been so fun to watch the stars of the TV series becoming A-list celebrities while the books upon which the show was based hit the bestseller list …
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January 22, 2026 at 1:05 PM
I wrote about how Heated Rivalry is just the latest case of how publishers, with all their data, are still not able to predict what will be the next sensation. lithub.com/get-ready-fo...
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It's a shame more white men over 35 aren't yelling at them then. Get to work.
ICE seems to get completely flummoxed when they’re being yelled at by white men over 35. They kind of put their heads down and shuffle their feet. It’s like their kryptonite.
January 17, 2026 at 6:08 PM
It's a shame more white men over 35 aren't yelling at them then. Get to work.
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For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Stand With Minnesota: Resource Hub
Causes to Donate to in Minnesota to Help Our Communities Defend Themselves from ICE This list is now available/shareable at standwithminnesota.org *Note: I am from Minnesota, and these come from peo...
docs.google.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:48 AM
For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Hey folks Calvary Food Shelf has been helping out people in Minneapolis for 30 years, and now they’re ramping up to meet the crisis, including doing home deliveries so people don’t have to risk going out.
They’re just over halfway to their current goal—let’s get them all the way, shall we?
They’re just over halfway to their current goal—let’s get them all the way, shall we?
Support Calvary Food Shelf: Emergency Response Fundraiser on GiveMN
Help us respond to urgent community needs
www.givemn.org
January 15, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Hey folks Calvary Food Shelf has been helping out people in Minneapolis for 30 years, and now they’re ramping up to meet the crisis, including doing home deliveries so people don’t have to risk going out.
They’re just over halfway to their current goal—let’s get them all the way, shall we?
They’re just over halfway to their current goal—let’s get them all the way, shall we?
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I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.
You could be next.
You could be next.
January 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.
You could be next.
You could be next.
Awful and evil. Her poor boy.
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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January 8, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Awful and evil. Her poor boy.
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My first out of the gate for 2026, at @literaryhub.bsky.social, on why it’s a GOOD thing that Mayor Mamdani can never be president lithub.com/why-its-a-go...
January 2, 2026 at 1:06 PM
My first out of the gate for 2026, at @literaryhub.bsky.social, on why it’s a GOOD thing that Mayor Mamdani can never be president lithub.com/why-its-a-go...
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“Zohran Mamdani will never feel the need to use the NYPD to beat up protesters in the hopes it will impress a precinct captain in Des Moines.” lithub.com/why-its-a-go...
Why It’s a Good Thing Zohran Mamdani Can Never Become President
Zohran Mamdan is now either the 111th or 112th mayor of the great City of New York, depending on how you count. Either way, it’s great that he’s finally taking over the Big Apple. And it’s even bet…
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January 2, 2026 at 1:49 PM
“Zohran Mamdani will never feel the need to use the NYPD to beat up protesters in the hopes it will impress a precinct captain in Des Moines.” lithub.com/why-its-a-go...
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iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment Bari Weiss Killed
iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
www.404media.co
December 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
The difference between emigrated and immigrated has been lost.
It’s over. (I see them used incorrectly now, in numerous books.)
😞
It’s over. (I see them used incorrectly now, in numerous books.)
😞
December 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The difference between emigrated and immigrated has been lost.
It’s over. (I see them used incorrectly now, in numerous books.)
😞
It’s over. (I see them used incorrectly now, in numerous books.)
😞
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Immense gratitude to my editor @jonnydiamond.bsky.social ...
"And so, having long debated what to do about this situation, I dug a fire pit in my backyard and burned my complete set of hardcover Harry Potters."
I have a lengthy and long in the works piece live this morning, from @literaryhub.bsky.social
Hope you all enjoy ...
lithub.com/burn-harry-b...
I have a lengthy and long in the works piece live this morning, from @literaryhub.bsky.social
Hope you all enjoy ...
lithub.com/burn-harry-b...
Burn Harry Burn: Reckoning With My Harry Potter Fandom as a Trans Person
During the spring of 2020, as the world locked down and people were dead and dying and breaking apart and mourning and afraid and hiding, the British author J.K. Rowling decided to publish an open …
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December 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Immense gratitude to my editor @jonnydiamond.bsky.social ...
And if your name is MacKenzie Scott please consider getting in touch directly.
AI slop is killing the internet. If you enjoy editorial by humans, for humans, please consider becoming a Lit Hub member (and/or donating!)
lithub.com/its-harder-a...
lithub.com/its-harder-a...
It’s Harder and Harder to Be a Magazine on the Internet—Please Help
As we hurtle toward the end of a dismally eventful year (yes, we live in interesting times), those of us in what remains of America’s independent media are poring over budgets past, present, and fu…
lithub.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:47 AM
And if your name is MacKenzie Scott please consider getting in touch directly.
AI slop is killing the internet. If you enjoy editorial by humans, for humans, please consider becoming a Lit Hub member (and/or donating!)
lithub.com/its-harder-a...
lithub.com/its-harder-a...
It’s Harder and Harder to Be a Magazine on the Internet—Please Help
As we hurtle toward the end of a dismally eventful year (yes, we live in interesting times), those of us in what remains of America’s independent media are poring over budgets past, present, and fu…
lithub.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:45 AM
AI slop is killing the internet. If you enjoy editorial by humans, for humans, please consider becoming a Lit Hub member (and/or donating!)
lithub.com/its-harder-a...
lithub.com/its-harder-a...
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One my fav places to write serious and rugged essays about the writing life and literature is the great @lithub.com.web.brid.gy and it's always a pleasure writing for @jonnydiamond.bsky.social and crew. Consider becoming a member! I know my mom did. lithub.memberful.com/join
Literary Hub
lithub.memberful.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
One my fav places to write serious and rugged essays about the writing life and literature is the great @lithub.com.web.brid.gy and it's always a pleasure writing for @jonnydiamond.bsky.social and crew. Consider becoming a member! I know my mom did. lithub.memberful.com/join
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Good morning, I have a new piece up at LitHub on Woolf's To the Lighthouse, her unacknowledged plague novel--a book about what happens after the end of the End of the World.
This one took me a long time to put together. I hope you enjoy.
This one took me a long time to put together. I hope you enjoy.
The Far Side of Disaster: On Virginia Woolf’s Unacknowledged Plague Novel To the Lighthouse
It’s been five years since the End of the World, and yet here we still are. Increasingly, I’ve found myself trying to understand what it might mean to write past the apocalypse, and whether or not …
lithub.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Good morning, I have a new piece up at LitHub on Woolf's To the Lighthouse, her unacknowledged plague novel--a book about what happens after the end of the End of the World.
This one took me a long time to put together. I hope you enjoy.
This one took me a long time to put together. I hope you enjoy.
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This is a lovely essay about one of my favorite novels.
Good morning, I have a new piece up at LitHub on Woolf's To the Lighthouse, her unacknowledged plague novel--a book about what happens after the end of the End of the World.
This one took me a long time to put together. I hope you enjoy.
This one took me a long time to put together. I hope you enjoy.
The Far Side of Disaster: On Virginia Woolf’s Unacknowledged Plague Novel To the Lighthouse
It’s been five years since the End of the World, and yet here we still are. Increasingly, I’ve found myself trying to understand what it might mean to write past the apocalypse, and whether or not …
lithub.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:02 AM
This is a lovely essay about one of my favorite novels.
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@jonnydiamond.bsky.social reading from Homage to Catalonia for #falloffreedom on WGXC
November 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
@jonnydiamond.bsky.social reading from Homage to Catalonia for #falloffreedom on WGXC
Pulling a late night with the 14 year old (who’s way behind on a school project) and he just referenced the Kardashev Scale AND correctly named the singer of “Rhiannon.”
I feel like this should count towards college admissions.
I feel like this should count towards college admissions.
November 14, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Pulling a late night with the 14 year old (who’s way behind on a school project) and he just referenced the Kardashev Scale AND correctly named the singer of “Rhiannon.”
I feel like this should count towards college admissions.
I feel like this should count towards college admissions.
Not the rhetoric of moral clarity! No!
I love writing one single article over and over again every month
November 14, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Not the rhetoric of moral clarity! No!
It was over once everyone started calling it the “homeland.”
That’s some fascist shit my dudes.
That’s some fascist shit my dudes.
November 14, 2025 at 3:17 AM
It was over once everyone started calling it the “homeland.”
That’s some fascist shit my dudes.
That’s some fascist shit my dudes.
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
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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…
buff.ly
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.