Benjamin Dreyer
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author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his
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author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his
benjamindreyer.com
And here they are again, though the usually highly dependable William Auerbach-Levy hasn't quite, I think, captured Joan.
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 AM
And here they are again, though the usually highly dependable William Auerbach-Levy hasn't quite, I think, captured Joan.
Monday evening, December 15, at 7:30, do join @kerryomalley.bsky.social, Annabeth Gish, and me for In the Night. In the Dark. A Shirley Jackson Evening.
Thrills and chills guaranteed.
Details linked below.
Thrills and chills guaranteed.
Details linked below.
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Monday evening, December 15, at 7:30, do join @kerryomalley.bsky.social, Annabeth Gish, and me for In the Night. In the Dark. A Shirley Jackson Evening.
Thrills and chills guaranteed.
Details linked below.
Thrills and chills guaranteed.
Details linked below.
May I submit a slightly more plausible candidate for Unknown and Underrated (though perhaps not in this crowd).
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
May I submit a slightly more plausible candidate for Unknown and Underrated (though perhaps not in this crowd).
Bizarre to see the repeated assertion today that birthday boy Claude Rains is either unknown or underrated.
To whom? By whom?
🤷🏻♂️
To whom? By whom?
🤷🏻♂️
November 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Bizarre to see the repeated assertion today that birthday boy Claude Rains is either unknown or underrated.
To whom? By whom?
🤷🏻♂️
To whom? By whom?
🤷🏻♂️
today's not random theater photo:
birthday girl Ann Reinking (❤️) and Joel Grey (also ❤️, of course, but he's still with us) in Goodtime Charley (photo by Kenn Duncan)
birthday girl Ann Reinking (❤️) and Joel Grey (also ❤️, of course, but he's still with us) in Goodtime Charley (photo by Kenn Duncan)
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
today's not random theater photo:
birthday girl Ann Reinking (❤️) and Joel Grey (also ❤️, of course, but he's still with us) in Goodtime Charley (photo by Kenn Duncan)
birthday girl Ann Reinking (❤️) and Joel Grey (also ❤️, of course, but he's still with us) in Goodtime Charley (photo by Kenn Duncan)
Happy Claude Rains's birthday!
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Happy Claude Rains's birthday!
Happy 100th Richard Burton's birthday!
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Happy 100th Richard Burton's birthday!
Supreme Court suggests that Kim Davis go fuck herself and/or one of her 37 ex-husbands.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Supreme Court suggests that Kim Davis go fuck herself and/or one of her 37 ex-husbands.
Celebrating the birthday of the divine, and much-missed, Ann Reinking.
❤️
❤️
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Celebrating the birthday of the divine, and much-missed, Ann Reinking.
❤️
❤️
today's mostly random theater photo:
Margaret Leighton, Zoe Caldwell, and Kate Reid in Tennessee Williams's The Gnadiges Fraulein (1966)
Margaret Leighton, Zoe Caldwell, and Kate Reid in Tennessee Williams's The Gnadiges Fraulein (1966)
November 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
today's mostly random theater photo:
Margaret Leighton, Zoe Caldwell, and Kate Reid in Tennessee Williams's The Gnadiges Fraulein (1966)
Margaret Leighton, Zoe Caldwell, and Kate Reid in Tennessee Williams's The Gnadiges Fraulein (1966)
“I’m sorry you don’t appreciate footnotes,” explains person to me who should not be explaining anything to anyone. “Perhaps you should read Nicholson Baker.”
Oh.
Oh.
November 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
“I’m sorry you don’t appreciate footnotes,” explains person to me who should not be explaining anything to anyone. “Perhaps you should read Nicholson Baker.”
Oh.
Oh.
Am I doing this right?
November 9, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Am I doing this right?
This was the set I bought. I'd forgotten till just now that they were from Ballantine as well. (🤔.)
November 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
This was the set I bought. I'd forgotten till just now that they were from Ballantine as well. (🤔.)
They're all up at PRH dot com, if you want to see and/or purchase them.
Here's one more.
Here's one more.
November 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
They're all up at PRH dot com, if you want to see and/or purchase them.
Here's one more.
Here's one more.
Also, The Hobbit has never, in my reading/publishing life, not been "The enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings," and I'd love to know who came up with that tagline.
November 9, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Also, The Hobbit has never, in my reading/publishing life, not been "The enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings," and I'd love to know who came up with that tagline.
This was the last set I presided over—along with a dozen other Tolkien volumes in the same style—and I liked these very much.
November 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
This was the last set I presided over—along with a dozen other Tolkien volumes in the same style—and I liked these very much.
BTW, it was way cool, nearly four decades after purchasing these (twice, I wore through them pretty hard), to be working for the company that published them.
November 9, 2025 at 2:09 AM
BTW, it was way cool, nearly four decades after purchasing these (twice, I wore through them pretty hard), to be working for the company that published them.
Though not as nice as Helen's boy's.
November 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Though not as nice as Helen's boy's.
Name an actor who appeared onstage with June in the very same play who had a relationship with the librettist of the aforementioned 1959 American musical about June's mother I should really go for a walk or something.
November 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Name an actor who appeared onstage with June in the very same play who had a relationship with the librettist of the aforementioned 1959 American musical about June's mother I should really go for a walk or something.
Name an actor who appeared onstage with June whose adoptive mother beat out the originator of the role of June's mother in the aforementioned landmark 1959 American musical for the Tony for Best oh skip it.
November 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Name an actor who appeared onstage with June whose adoptive mother beat out the originator of the role of June's mother in the aforementioned landmark 1959 American musical for the Tony for Best oh skip it.
bonus June with Julie Harris in Joe Masteroff's The Warm Peninsula, and in a publicity shot for June's play Marathon '33, with Julie more or less playing June
November 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
bonus June with Julie Harris in Joe Masteroff's The Warm Peninsula, and in a publicity shot for June's play Marathon '33, with Julie more or less playing June
I bet she was swell.
November 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I bet she was swell.
today's semi-random theater photo:
birthday boy Norman Lloyd as the Fool, Martin Gabel as the Earl of Kent, Louis Calhern as Lear, and Wesley Addy as Edgar (1950)
birthday boy Norman Lloyd as the Fool, Martin Gabel as the Earl of Kent, Louis Calhern as Lear, and Wesley Addy as Edgar (1950)
November 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
today's semi-random theater photo:
birthday boy Norman Lloyd as the Fool, Martin Gabel as the Earl of Kent, Louis Calhern as Lear, and Wesley Addy as Edgar (1950)
birthday boy Norman Lloyd as the Fool, Martin Gabel as the Earl of Kent, Louis Calhern as Lear, and Wesley Addy as Edgar (1950)