Janine Barlow
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Janine Barlow
@janineb.bsky.social
Production editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Yes my profile picture is a Macmillan bathroom mirror selfie
Seeing something like this in the daily deals memo is actually how I know the universe is reorienting itself back in my favor
November 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Zohran please make sure Ask the Mayor returns on @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Estragon is Jeremy and Vladimir is Mark
October 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I’m happy for Wallace Shawn that he has another play coming but/and I feel that a production of Aunt Dan and Lemon would really hit right now
September 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.
July 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
One thing about Bluesky is that a lot of people here are the kind of people who use “prolly”
July 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife.

While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.

This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
June 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Permanently a Loïs Boisson fan
June 2, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I’m glad I’ve stopped using the other app but I just Feel Like people over there are talking about Andrea Long Chu’s review of Ocean Vuong and they’re not doing it here
May 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you
May 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Elif Batuman on Sayaka Murata is a perfect pairing www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Sayaka Murata’s Alien Eye
The author of “Convenience Store Woman” has gained a cult following by seeing the ordinary world as science fiction.
www.newyorker.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Spent lights-out of Christmas Eve and before call time Christmas morning reading the Rachel Aviv story and unfortunately I don’t think anyone else in my family wants to spend a Christmas Day walk tromping through the snow yelling about how desperately we want to throttle Alice Munro
December 25, 2024 at 2:08 PM
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Optimist: The cup is half full.

Pessimist: The cup is half empty.

Copy editor: Nine pages ago it was described as a "mug"; do you intend the terms to be interchangeable or is this supposed to be a different drinking vessel?
Optimist: The cup is half full.

Pessimist: The cup is half empty.

Engineer: The specification is wrong.
Optimist: The cup is half full.

Pessimist: The cup is half empty.

Historian: The cup, 1789-1914
November 23, 2024 at 3:00 PM
I find that one weather account helpful AND I have long felt it could easily be an op to steer people toward feeling great about sunny eighty-degree days in any month and negative about rain even when it’s sorely needed. Like just a fun side project run by climate denialists
November 21, 2024 at 4:02 PM
It is the dawn of a new era in social media addiction for me and the other being in this room is simply irate that I haven’t given her a midmorning treat hours earlier than normal
November 18, 2024 at 12:23 PM