Caleb Crain
@calebcrain.bsky.social
Into #birding, #CrossFit, and sometimes writing. Wrote the novels "Necessary Errors" and "Overthrow"
More at https://calebcrain.substack.com and https://steamthing.com.
New short story! https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/12/clay-fiction-caleb-c
More at https://calebcrain.substack.com and https://steamthing.com.
New short story! https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/12/clay-fiction-caleb-c
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Caleb Crain
@calebcrain.bsky.social
· Nov 26
Hi, new followers! I wrote "Necessary Errors," a gay coming-of-age novel set in Prague a year after the Berlin Wall fell, and "Overthrow," a novel about Occupy protesters aswim in surveillance. My short stories have won n+1's Anthony Veasna So prize and the Paris Review's Susannah Hunnewell prize.
Wouldn't it be a violation of the Equal Protection Clause to grant such a right to senators but not to other citizens? There doesn't seem to be anything special about senators with respect to such a right that would stand up to any kind of scrutiny.
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Wouldn't it be a violation of the Equal Protection Clause to grant such a right to senators but not to other citizens? There doesn't seem to be anything special about senators with respect to such a right that would stand up to any kind of scrutiny.
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“princesses”
an underrated part of this turducken of garbage is Elon posting an image of the Odyssey while discussing the Iliad, but it's all so terribly, terribly pathetic
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
“princesses”
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Re-reading Moby Dick at Ahab’s age. An essay by @calebcrain.bsky.social. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/a...
Another Cruise | Caleb Crain
Re-reading Moby Dick at Ahab’s age.
www.laphamsquarterly.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Re-reading Moby Dick at Ahab’s age. An essay by @calebcrain.bsky.social. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/a...
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Guillotine earrings, ca. 1793
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Guillotine earrings, ca. 1793
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Easier to run for Senate from the House. Gilibrand isn’t up again until 2030, and AOC is already reportedly considering a Schumer challenge
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Easier to run for Senate from the House. Gilibrand isn’t up again until 2030, and AOC is already reportedly considering a Schumer challenge
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yes senator they're roasting you on Bluesky, sir
yes full roast sir, the communists, the wine moms, Bill Kristol, they're all roasting you, sir
no, sir, I haven't seen him in Waiting for Godot, but he's roasting you, too, sir
yes full roast sir, the communists, the wine moms, Bill Kristol, they're all roasting you, sir
no, sir, I haven't seen him in Waiting for Godot, but he's roasting you, too, sir
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
yes senator they're roasting you on Bluesky, sir
yes full roast sir, the communists, the wine moms, Bill Kristol, they're all roasting you, sir
no, sir, I haven't seen him in Waiting for Godot, but he's roasting you, too, sir
yes full roast sir, the communists, the wine moms, Bill Kristol, they're all roasting you, sir
no, sir, I haven't seen him in Waiting for Godot, but he's roasting you, too, sir
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I don’t think Brad Lander is aiming high enough
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I don’t think Brad Lander is aiming high enough
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Sometimes, I just don't get it.
November 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Sometimes, I just don't get it.
At dinner tonight my husband came up with DINO—Democrats in name only—and I told him I would go on the internet and make it happen.
(No, I haven’t googled. Yes, it’s probably already out there.)
(No, I haven’t googled. Yes, it’s probably already out there.)
November 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
At dinner tonight my husband came up with DINO—Democrats in name only—and I told him I would go on the internet and make it happen.
(No, I haven’t googled. Yes, it’s probably already out there.)
(No, I haven’t googled. Yes, it’s probably already out there.)
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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"A ring at the door. It was Flaubert."
In tribute to Helen Garner winning the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, I put together a list of some of the best writers' diaries, from the Goncourt brothers to John Cheever ("Every time I read a review of Saul Bellow, I get the heaves"):
In tribute to Helen Garner winning the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, I put together a list of some of the best writers' diaries, from the Goncourt brothers to John Cheever ("Every time I read a review of Saul Bellow, I get the heaves"):
The 10 best writers’ diaries — from Virginia Woolf to Alan Bennett
As Helen Garner’s diaries win the Baillie Gifford prize, John Self picks ten more literary journals brimful of insight and scandal
www.thetimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
"A ring at the door. It was Flaubert."
In tribute to Helen Garner winning the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, I put together a list of some of the best writers' diaries, from the Goncourt brothers to John Cheever ("Every time I read a review of Saul Bellow, I get the heaves"):
In tribute to Helen Garner winning the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, I put together a list of some of the best writers' diaries, from the Goncourt brothers to John Cheever ("Every time I read a review of Saul Bellow, I get the heaves"):
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🚨HISTORIC PRESERVATION ALERT🚨: A concerted effort is underway by art historians & preservationists to save historic Wilbur J. Cohen building & its priceless New Deal artworks, threatened for sale by Trump administration. Please read, sign linked petition & repost! www.change.org/p/save-the-w...
Sign the Petition
Save the Wilbur J. Cohen Building — the “Sistine Chapel of the New Deal”
www.change.org
November 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
🚨HISTORIC PRESERVATION ALERT🚨: A concerted effort is underway by art historians & preservationists to save historic Wilbur J. Cohen building & its priceless New Deal artworks, threatened for sale by Trump administration. Please read, sign linked petition & repost! www.change.org/p/save-the-w...
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LGA looks like a parking lot.
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
LGA looks like a parking lot.
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been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
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From the 1860s, but feels so modern.
[Fidelia Bridges, Garden View, Brooklyn, ca. 1867, Watercolor and gouache, with traces of graphite underdrawing, on tan hot-pressed wove paper, 8 × 5 1/8 in. (20.3 × 13 cm) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)]
[Fidelia Bridges, Garden View, Brooklyn, ca. 1867, Watercolor and gouache, with traces of graphite underdrawing, on tan hot-pressed wove paper, 8 × 5 1/8 in. (20.3 × 13 cm) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)]
November 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
From the 1860s, but feels so modern.
[Fidelia Bridges, Garden View, Brooklyn, ca. 1867, Watercolor and gouache, with traces of graphite underdrawing, on tan hot-pressed wove paper, 8 × 5 1/8 in. (20.3 × 13 cm) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)]
[Fidelia Bridges, Garden View, Brooklyn, ca. 1867, Watercolor and gouache, with traces of graphite underdrawing, on tan hot-pressed wove paper, 8 × 5 1/8 in. (20.3 × 13 cm) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)]
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Shutting it down for the night with this post from a comrade in Chicago:
🎶"I wish I could give you this feeling. I wish I could give you this feeling."🎶
🎶"I wish I could give you this feeling. I wish I could give you this feeling."🎶
November 9, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Shutting it down for the night with this post from a comrade in Chicago:
🎶"I wish I could give you this feeling. I wish I could give you this feeling."🎶
🎶"I wish I could give you this feeling. I wish I could give you this feeling."🎶
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Will never tire of Trenton NJ’s incredibly passive-aggressive slogan
November 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Will never tire of Trenton NJ’s incredibly passive-aggressive slogan
“The freak-out about millionaires getting taxed is mostly coming from the millionaires.”
Mamdani Wants to Tax the Rich. Can He Persuade State Leaders?
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
“The freak-out about millionaires getting taxed is mostly coming from the millionaires.”
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My review for this weekend's WSJ is on Gerald Howard's fascinating biography of Malcolm Cowley, the 'literary bureaucrat' who helped to establish so much the American canon (gift link) www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
‘The Insider’ Review: Champion of the Lost Generation
As an editor and book critic, Malcolm Cowley backed innovative American writers. His greatest achievement may have been his rescue of William Faulkner’s literary reputation.
www.wsj.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
My review for this weekend's WSJ is on Gerald Howard's fascinating biography of Malcolm Cowley, the 'literary bureaucrat' who helped to establish so much the American canon (gift link) www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
If anyone is watching my little protest: I'll happily resubscribe if you lose that new op-ed editor.
Just canceled my subscription over this, finally. RIP, WaPo. May rewatch "All the Presidents' Men" tonight, to mourn.
bezos somehow made an editorial page worse than the one at the wall street journal
November 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
If anyone is watching my little protest: I'll happily resubscribe if you lose that new op-ed editor.
The Crane Brinton thesis, which we read in high school!
To go along with this: Gary Prevost, my old Latin American Politics professor, taught us that revolutions happen when rising expectations meet declining outcomes, and while this isn’t a revolution, you can see the echoes of the thought. Once you internalize the idea, you can see the echoes elsewhere
November 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The Crane Brinton thesis, which we read in high school!