Maggie Lehrman
@maggielehrman.com
Editor of books & watcher of tv
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KW Scholarship Silent Auction
Silent auction 'KW Scholarship Silent Auction' hosted online at 32auctions.
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November 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Check out this auction - so many great donations!
Pan!
"The first sighting of a pine marten in Studland, Dorset, in more than a century!" swanage.news/rare-and-end...
November 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Pan!
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These guys are not good at television, but they're so much more fun to watch than the professionals.
The stream has begun. Join us: www.youtube.com/live/fKA4Vpk...
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
These guys are not good at television, but they're so much more fun to watch than the professionals.
Halloween voted for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! Hooray!!
October 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Halloween voted for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! Hooray!!
One thing that all 3 of these shows have in common (besides being v good) is that I sobbed through each of them. I wonder why 🙃
Liberation is fantastic. So were Suffs and John Proctor is the Villain. There’s been a wild explosion of electric feminist theater in varied tones, exploring multiple eras & I don’t think it’s been recognized enough! (PS still annoyed at how little Suffs got celebrated)
October 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
One thing that all 3 of these shows have in common (besides being v good) is that I sobbed through each of them. I wonder why 🙃
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THE EDITORIAL DREAM
October 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
THE EDITORIAL DREAM
This chrome AI button has been driving me crazy but the instructions below worked!!
hey I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere but - if you're using Chrome and you don't want this gross little AI Mode button to pop up in your address bar, paste "chrome://flags" into your address bar and search the flags for "AI Mode." find "AI Mode Omnibox Entrypoint" then you can just disable it!
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This chrome AI button has been driving me crazy but the instructions below worked!!
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This video's great and it reminds me a little bit of my favorite Wes Anderson movie www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbO3...
October 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This video's great and it reminds me a little bit of my favorite Wes Anderson movie www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbO3...
The first 20 minutes of last night’s Task (on HBO) were fantastic - tense, propulsive, very complicated but you never get lost or confused, and also it managed to pay off character moments they’ve been planting for the entire series. The show overall is not top-tier HBO but those 20 minutes were.
October 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The first 20 minutes of last night’s Task (on HBO) were fantastic - tense, propulsive, very complicated but you never get lost or confused, and also it managed to pay off character moments they’ve been planting for the entire series. The show overall is not top-tier HBO but those 20 minutes were.
They printed first pass.
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:
Archives banned making copies.
Archives banned making copies.
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:
New library catalogue website.
New library catalogue website.
October 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
They printed first pass.
Good news! Hannah Sawyerr's TRUTH IS is a National Book Award Finalist!!! Aaaaaaaaahhhh!!!! www.nationalbook.org/awards2025/h...
October 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Good news! Hannah Sawyerr's TRUTH IS is a National Book Award Finalist!!! Aaaaaaaaahhhh!!!! www.nationalbook.org/awards2025/h...
Agreed!!! Sorry if this take is too HOT!
I watched the Oceans films with my son recently and they all rule, but I think Oceans Twelve is my favorite one.
October 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Agreed!!! Sorry if this take is too HOT!
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Is it a good thing for an industry when people are constantly inventing new words to describe the terrible side effects of your product?
September 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Is it a good thing for an industry when people are constantly inventing new words to describe the terrible side effects of your product?
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I've subscribed since day one, but I'm not going to keep paying while Disney keeps Jimmy Kimmel off the air.
September 22, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I've subscribed since day one, but I'm not going to keep paying while Disney keeps Jimmy Kimmel off the air.
I’m re-reading the Book of Dust books in preparation for book 3 coming soon, and I have to say for the millionth time Philip Pullman is an observant, fearless genius. Maybe my favorite writer.
September 18, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I’m re-reading the Book of Dust books in preparation for book 3 coming soon, and I have to say for the millionth time Philip Pullman is an observant, fearless genius. Maybe my favorite writer.
People sometimes ask how I keep up with so much tv and a lot of it has been training from years and years of reading Alan. Worth a subscription!
Some news: yesterday was my last at Rolling Stone. For now, I'm going solo, doing all my TV reviewing, recapping, etc., at my newsletter. I hope you'll consider subscribing. Many more details here:
Don't stop believing
Some news, as they say
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September 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
People sometimes ask how I keep up with so much tv and a lot of it has been training from years and years of reading Alan. Worth a subscription!
Hey I’m in this piece! And happy on sale day to BONES AND BERSERKERS!
13 years after the debut of Nathan Hale’s ‘Hazardous Tales,’ the author-illustrator has added volume 13 to the series with graphic novel anthology ‘Bones and Berserkers: 13 True Tales of Terror from American History’
Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales Adds Lucky #13
With good reason, Nathan Hale could refute the age-old superstition that the number 13 portends bad luck. Thirteen years after the debut of Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales, the author-illustrator has...
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September 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Hey I’m in this piece! And happy on sale day to BONES AND BERSERKERS!
Heck yes TRUTH IS by Hannah Sawyerr is on the National Book Award long list!!!!!! Congrats to Hannah - so honored to have worked on this with her! www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
September 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Heck yes TRUTH IS by Hannah Sawyerr is on the National Book Award long list!!!!!! Congrats to Hannah - so honored to have worked on this with her! www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
I have a neurotic phobia of poorly managed lines, I love the US Open, and I despise DJT with everything in my soul. This is literal hell to me x.com/benrothenber...
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September 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I have a neurotic phobia of poorly managed lines, I love the US Open, and I despise DJT with everything in my soul. This is literal hell to me x.com/benrothenber...
As a potential member of this class, I am highly skeptical that this settlement could be anywhere near high enough. If I get $5 venmoed to me in a year I’ll be pissed!
NEW: A major AI copyright legal showdown just took a huge twist today. Facing a class action on behalf of book authors that could've seen it pay over a TRILLION in damages for alleged piracy, Anthropic has agreed to settle instead: www.wired.com/story/anthro...
Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought By Book Authors
Anthropic faced the prospect of more than $1 trillion in damages, a sum that could have threatened the company’s survival if the case went to trial.
www.wired.com
August 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
As a potential member of this class, I am highly skeptical that this settlement could be anywhere near high enough. If I get $5 venmoed to me in a year I’ll be pissed!
The wild thing is that if you read Neil Strauss’s The Game (I did, ama) this is the secret point: “pick up” “artistry” is just a bunch of nerd hacks for making yourself a more interesting/less desperate/accidentally better person
As a person on the “left” I propose that if men want to fuck they should work on being fuckable
The left is completely silent on the subject of men getting laid - which, generally speaking, they are v.interested in doing and will continue to be interested in regardless of whether progressives want to talk about it. So the stage has been left entirely clear for the far-right.
August 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The wild thing is that if you read Neil Strauss’s The Game (I did, ama) this is the secret point: “pick up” “artistry” is just a bunch of nerd hacks for making yourself a more interesting/less desperate/accidentally better person
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Solemnly, at Carmen Sandiego’s funeral: do it Rockapella.
June 23, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Solemnly, at Carmen Sandiego’s funeral: do it Rockapella.
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Nothing is inevitable! Go vote tomorrow, and don't rank Cuomo. (There's no voting today)
We have gone from the margin of error to the margin of effort.
On the day before the election, we stand on the verge of toppling a political dynasty and winning a city we can afford. But we can only do it with you.
zohranfornyc.com/gotv
On the day before the election, we stand on the verge of toppling a political dynasty and winning a city we can afford. But we can only do it with you.
zohranfornyc.com/gotv
June 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Nothing is inevitable! Go vote tomorrow, and don't rank Cuomo. (There's no voting today)
I’ve been meaning to come on here and say this very thing. What a great show!
"Adults" on FX is hilarious. I just finished the first season, and there should have been three times as many episodes. We need more episodes of comedies!
June 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I’ve been meaning to come on here and say this very thing. What a great show!