Roll Tide.
a football player wearing a red jersey with the number 8
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media.tenor.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Roll Tide.
Can’t make this up.
The White House has installed new plaques along President Donald Trump's "Presidential Walk of Fame," featuring descriptions that read like his Truth Social posts, including insults and random capitalization. CNN's Kaitlan Collins reports from the White House.
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Read more: https://cnn.it/3N6RlwP
December 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Can’t make this up.
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Here’s to never knowing who you'll run into on the subway — and to #ReasonstoLoveNewYork, our 21st annual reminder of why (rent hikes, rat kings, and all) we wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. www.curbed.com/article/reas...
December 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Here’s to never knowing who you'll run into on the subway — and to #ReasonstoLoveNewYork, our 21st annual reminder of why (rent hikes, rat kings, and all) we wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. www.curbed.com/article/reas...
I wonder if the CFP Committee decision to leave Notre Dame out the playoffs had an impact on Jeremiyah Love’s Heisman candidacy? 🤔
December 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I wonder if the CFP Committee decision to leave Notre Dame out the playoffs had an impact on Jeremiyah Love’s Heisman candidacy? 🤔
If you see me wearing Chelsea Boots, please reach out to my emergency contact.
November 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
If you see me wearing Chelsea Boots, please reach out to my emergency contact.
Misery is dropping $7 on a coffee to work at a café that seemed like your vibe, only to find out there’s no WiFi. Bruh, give me my $7 back. Now.
October 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Misery is dropping $7 on a coffee to work at a café that seemed like your vibe, only to find out there’s no WiFi. Bruh, give me my $7 back. Now.
Sophocles had so many bars in Oedipus the King. Like, too many.
a man wearing glasses is standing in front of a crowd of people and looking at the camera .
ALT: a man wearing glasses is standing in front of a crowd of people and looking at the camera .
media.tenor.com
September 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Sophocles had so many bars in Oedipus the King. Like, too many.
Guess I should finally watch this now. 😏
August 31, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Guess I should finally watch this now. 😏
Sad day. 😢 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/b...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution to Quit Print Cold Turkey
www.nytimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Sad day. 😢 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/b...
I’m convinced The Gilded Age will help usher in a new golden era for American opera.
August 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I’m convinced The Gilded Age will help usher in a new golden era for American opera.
I guess Ghislaine Maxwell is the next Serena Joy?
August 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I guess Ghislaine Maxwell is the next Serena Joy?
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among the many things they don’t tell you about having kids is the amount of money you will shell out to buy various berries
July 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
among the many things they don’t tell you about having kids is the amount of money you will shell out to buy various berries
A 5-year-old boy was covering the register at my local bodega today.
May 25, 2025 at 11:41 PM
A 5-year-old boy was covering the register at my local bodega today.
In the lumber town of Dubois, Pennsylvania for the night. Trump won the county with 76 percent of the vote. The city has two Uber drivers, and my current driver is pals with the other one.
May 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM
In the lumber town of Dubois, Pennsylvania for the night. Trump won the county with 76 percent of the vote. The city has two Uber drivers, and my current driver is pals with the other one.
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“As far as I’m concerned, I believe the subject chooses the writer.” —Mario Vargas Llosa buff.ly/WUOGUJU
May 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“As far as I’m concerned, I believe the subject chooses the writer.” —Mario Vargas Llosa buff.ly/WUOGUJU
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“The most interesting fiction, to me, contains this element of strangeness, whether it’s set in the real world or an alternative one.” @janeciab.bsky.social interviews @karenebender.bsky.social.
Karen E. Bender on Channeling Contemporary Anxieties Through Speculative Fiction
My last Lit Hub conversation with Karen E. Bender was in 2018, just before her collection The New Order was published. She mentioned that she read John Cheever’s short stories in graduate school: “…
buff.ly
May 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“The most interesting fiction, to me, contains this element of strangeness, whether it’s set in the real world or an alternative one.” @janeciab.bsky.social interviews @karenebender.bsky.social.
Lately, it’s as if joy catches me by surprise.
May 8, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Lately, it’s as if joy catches me by surprise.
Not one episode of White Locus was filmed in the U.S., but sure.
May 6, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Not one episode of White Locus was filmed in the U.S., but sure.
Once kindness speaks, it never leaves your side.
May 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Once kindness speaks, it never leaves your side.
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April 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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What Toni Morrison’s fiction taught @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social about writing memoir: “I’ve learned as a memoirist to construct worlds that careful excavation implies.”
Inventing Truths: What Toni Morrison’s Fiction Taught Me About Writing Memoir
In a talk she gave in the 1980s entitled “The Site of Memory”, Toni Morrison said her goals as a novelist sprang from the great Black literary tradition of slave narratives, of autobiography; in th…
buff.ly
April 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
What Toni Morrison’s fiction taught @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social about writing memoir: “I’ve learned as a memoirist to construct worlds that careful excavation implies.”
A reminder that greatness is nonlinear and takes time.
A majestic new show at the Whitney features the artist’s gift for portraiture that seethes with subtleties.
The Wary Gaze of Amy Sherald
A majestic new show at the Whitney features the artist’s gift for portraiture that seethes with subtleties.
www.vulture.com
April 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
A reminder that greatness is nonlinear and takes time.
"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." — Thomas Mann
April 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." — Thomas Mann