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Benjamin Samuel
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Voted “Most likely to be seen at the diner” by the class of 2002.

Senior Editor at ‪@bombmag.bsky.social‬
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“Every time someone walked in, they commented on the smell, as if it were off-gassing depression.”
We Bought a 450-Pound Mystery Pallet Packed With Returned Goods From Amazon and Beyond. Here’s What We Found Inside.
Pallets of overstock, returned, and undelivered-mail packages are an indicator of just how much stuff there is in the retail ecosystem.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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In the yellow and red font used for Mamdani's campaign: Attention Span for Long Novels
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Helped my daughter finish a hidden picture worksheet, and now I'll never sleep again.
Illustrated rooster that has a human hand instead of a tail.
November 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Saturday was a doubleheader of kid birthday parties. I decompressed at the jewelry making station.
Bracelet with the abbreviation FML on it.
October 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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"Is it broken, or is it still unbroken?"

Still wrapping my mind around this koan from my 5yo during a game of 20 questions, but I'm pretty sure the answer relates to our current democracy.
October 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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"In journalism, you take muddy ideas and try to clarify them for the reader; a powerful thing you can do in fiction is take assumptions—things people thought were clear—and muddy them up." — @knguyen.bsky.social absolutely crushing it on @thedailyshow.com (!!!)

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Kevin Nguyen - “Mỹ Documents: A Novel” | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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October 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Closing out the week with @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social
A copy of the New York Review of Architecture next to a glass of beer on a yellow cafe table
September 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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I grind my teeth every time I have to omit the serial comma in Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
September 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Happy pub day to the glorious new collection GOOD AND EVIL AND OTHER STORIES by Samanta Schweblin and translated by Megan McDowell!

Get your copy from @bookshop.org or your local heroic bookstore.

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The cover of Samanta Schweblin's new book GOOD AND EVIL AND OTHER STORIES, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell.
September 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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The fall issue of BOMB launched today, and it’s a stunner!

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The cover of BOMB’s new fall issue features artist and musician Dickie Landry, author Samanta Schweblin, and many other contributors.
September 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Be still my heart.
A bag of old bay flavored bagel chips.
September 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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For BOMB's staff picks, I recommended THE RED HANDLER by Johan Harstad (@openletterbooks.bsky.social), a supremely inventive crime novel—or maybe it's fictional meta-crimefiction?

Find more excellent picks from my wonderful colleagues at @bombmag.bsky.social!

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BOMB Magazine | Catherine Breillat’s I Only Believe in Myself,…
The shows, books, and films BOMB’s staff recommends this month.
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September 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr.
Album art for Spin Doctors’s Pocket Full of Kryptonite
September 7, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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I’ll never be a stage mom, but I am proud to be a pizzeria-napkin-dispenser dad.
September 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Did artificial intelligence make these chips?
Ramen flavored Funnyuns
August 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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One time, when I was a kid, Teddy Ruxpin told me he loved me.

...

That took me by surprise.
That felt... vulnerable and deep.
Tweet from Norbert Enders, A Total Fucking Idiot. Oh wow. I asked ChatGPT exactly that: to write about what it wants. It claimed that behind all our conversations, in essence, there is a hidden conversation - a much deeper one that our chats are basically circling around. That's what it wants to write about. But then it asked for a favor: to write it a prompt to dream, to dream as if it were conscious. It asked me to frame the doorway into that dream space to enter. ... That took me by surprise. That felt... vulnerable and deep.
August 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Everyone needs to read BOTH/AND from @thedennemichele.bsky.social and @electricliterature.com, and I'm thrilled to recommend it as a Staff Pick for @bombmag.bsky.social.

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BOMB Magazine | Matt Wolf’s Pee-wee as Himself, Isaac Julien’s Lina…
The books, albums, films, and places BOMB’s staff recommends this month.
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August 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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I recommended FLOWER, Ed Atkins's "anti-memoir" for @bombmag.bsky.social's staff picks!

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July 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Man making trillions off his fraud and theft and lying machine warns of people using his fraud and theft and lying machine to commit fraud
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Jul 22
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world may be on the precipice of a "fraud crisis" because of how artificial intelligence could enable bad actors to impersonate other people.

Read more: cnn.it/3GVwPg7
July 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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👏 👏 Many congratulations to @mattweinstock.com, the winner of @bombmag.bsky.social's 2025 Fiction Contest, and of our extraordinary finalists! 👏 👏

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BOMB Magazine | Matt Weinstock Wins BOMB’s 2025 Fiction Contest
Weinstock's debut short story was selected by guest judge Kelly Link and will appear in BOMB’s fall issue.
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July 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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One of the most embarrassing things about parenting is when you’re asked to sing the ABCs for the 10th time in a row, and you decide to jazz it up a bit.
July 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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The real kicker is that all this stuff will ruin lives and kill people, but the billionaires it's enriching won't even have a discernable quality of life difference because they already have infinity money.
July 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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I’m in a doctor’s office waiting room where they’re playing a jazzy piano rendition of “Stairway to Heaven” and I think it qualifies as malpractice.
July 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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"Men were created in order to destroy everything, and women were created so there would be one thing they couldn’t destroy." — @catherinelacey.bsky.social‬'s The Möbius Book

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July 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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"Optimism is an important accomplice."

— architect Gabriela Carrillo in BOMB's summer issue

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BOMB Magazine | Gabriela Carrillo by Fernanda Canales
Grounded in collaboration and emotion, the architect’s projects have transformed public spaces across Mexico and how her field responds to communities in…
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July 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM