Mark Sarvas
@marksarvas.bsky.social
American Book Award winning author of MEMENTO PARK (FSG) and HARRY, REVISED (Bloomsbury). @UGMAN June 2025 from ITNA Press. Scold-proof.
“ … ceaselessly intelligent” - Joseph O’Neill.
"Chilling, flawlessly executed" - Kirkus Reviews
www.marksarvas.com
“ … ceaselessly intelligent” - Joseph O’Neill.
"Chilling, flawlessly executed" - Kirkus Reviews
www.marksarvas.com
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Is literature, as Philip Roth once prophesied, now a “cultic” concern? Writers from around the world weigh in.
Brain Rot Without Borders | Baffler Forum
There’s no point in denying it anymore: literature as we know it is well on its way to becoming a lost art.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Is literature, as Philip Roth once prophesied, now a “cultic” concern? Writers from around the world weigh in.
Pretty revolting to see Cheney afforded all the honors of a state funeral when he should have finished his days in the Hague. Denouncing Trump hardly wipes the slate clean.
November 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Pretty revolting to see Cheney afforded all the honors of a state funeral when he should have finished his days in the Hague. Denouncing Trump hardly wipes the slate clean.
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@kathleenbelew.bsky.social Omar El Akkad's "One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This" just won the National Book Award for nonfiction. You might appreciate his acceptance speech. (It starts a few minutes from here, which is the intro of the finalists.) […]
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November 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
@kathleenbelew.bsky.social Omar El Akkad's "One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This" just won the National Book Award for nonfiction. You might appreciate his acceptance speech. (It starts a few minutes from here, which is the intro of the finalists.) […]
Elated for @rabihalameddine.bsky.social! Many congratulations!
We are thrilled that @rabihalameddine.bsky.social's THE TRUE TRUE STORY OF RAJA THE GULLIBLE (AND HIS MOTHER) has been selected as the winner of the 2025 @nationalbook.bsky.social Award for Fiction! Congrats, Rabih 🥳
November 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Elated for @rabihalameddine.bsky.social! Many congratulations!
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We are thrilled that @rabihalameddine.bsky.social's THE TRUE TRUE STORY OF RAJA THE GULLIBLE (AND HIS MOTHER) has been selected as the winner of the 2025 @nationalbook.bsky.social Award for Fiction! Congrats, Rabih 🥳
November 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM
We are thrilled that @rabihalameddine.bsky.social's THE TRUE TRUE STORY OF RAJA THE GULLIBLE (AND HIS MOTHER) has been selected as the winner of the 2025 @nationalbook.bsky.social Award for Fiction! Congrats, Rabih 🥳
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Hey, Los Angeles (and Los Angeles–adjacent) folk:
Come see Annabeth Gish, @kerryomalley.bsky.social, and me in In the Night. In the Dark. A Shirley Jackson Evening on Monday, December 15. (Further details and ticket info in the link below.)
Shiversome thrills guaranteed.
Come see Annabeth Gish, @kerryomalley.bsky.social, and me in In the Night. In the Dark. A Shirley Jackson Evening on Monday, December 15. (Further details and ticket info in the link below.)
Shiversome thrills guaranteed.
November 20, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Hey, Los Angeles (and Los Angeles–adjacent) folk:
Come see Annabeth Gish, @kerryomalley.bsky.social, and me in In the Night. In the Dark. A Shirley Jackson Evening on Monday, December 15. (Further details and ticket info in the link below.)
Shiversome thrills guaranteed.
Come see Annabeth Gish, @kerryomalley.bsky.social, and me in In the Night. In the Dark. A Shirley Jackson Evening on Monday, December 15. (Further details and ticket info in the link below.)
Shiversome thrills guaranteed.
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The world’s first fully-automatic photographic machine debuted in New York City in 1925. Anatol Josepho's "Photomaton" was so popular that people lined up for hours to try it out. At the time, photo strips cost 25¢ and took eight minutes to process and print.
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[Man, woman, and children] (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection)
[Man, woman, and children] (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection); about 1950–1960; Unknown; Gelatin silver print; Image: 4.8 × 4 cm (1 7/8 × 1 9/16 in.); 2009.141.381.4
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November 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The world’s first fully-automatic photographic machine debuted in New York City in 1925. Anatol Josepho's "Photomaton" was so popular that people lined up for hours to try it out. At the time, photo strips cost 25¢ and took eight minutes to process and print.
www.getty.edu/art/collecti...
www.getty.edu/art/collecti...
He really should spend every remaining day in prison.
November 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
He really should spend every remaining day in prison.
Down Cemetery Road is a generic good time, elevated by its two leads.
November 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Down Cemetery Road is a generic good time, elevated by its two leads.
One can only hope that the whole of 2029 is taken up with the American Nuremberg Trials.
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
One can only hope that the whole of 2029 is taken up with the American Nuremberg Trials.
Sorry y'all, I have exceed my Nuzzi hate-read quota for the week/month/year ...
November 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Sorry y'all, I have exceed my Nuzzi hate-read quota for the week/month/year ...
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Katie Wilson, a Political Newcomer, Is Elected Mayor in Seattle
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Nobody told me there'd be days like these ...
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Nobody told me there'd be days like these ...
So what was it all for?
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 AM
So what was it all for?
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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The winner of the 2025 Booker prize has been revealed. Read the full story at the link below ⬇️
David Szalay’s Flesh — the blokiest winner of the Booker prize
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November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The winner of the 2025 Booker prize has been revealed. Read the full story at the link below ⬇️
Chuck Schumer is the best friend the GOP has.
November 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Chuck Schumer is the best friend the GOP has.
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This right here.
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This right here.
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"Schumer voted against it, in the hope that his vote would conceal his fingerprints. He fooled no one."
Democrats Get Rolled by Their Own - The American Prospect
Coming out of last Tuesday’s election blowout, the Democrats were riding high and unified. But on Sunday night, centrist Senate Democrats, with Chuck Schumer’s tacit encouragement, voted to reopen the...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"Schumer voted against it, in the hope that his vote would conceal his fingerprints. He fooled no one."
I confess, I find this reading persuasive.
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I confess, I find this reading persuasive.
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Here are the democrats who caved, 40 day fight for nothing. Be sure to thank them if they 'represented' you....
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Here are the democrats who caved, 40 day fight for nothing. Be sure to thank them if they 'represented' you....
May she never know another moment of peace.
The challenge to the court's 2015 ruling came from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex licenses after the court's Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which recognized a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. n.pr/47yOyEH
Supreme Court declines to revisit gay marriage decision
The challenge to the court's 2015 ruling came from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex licenses after the court's Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which recognized a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
n.pr
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
May she never know another moment of peace.