Karl Taro Greenfeld
@karltaro.bsky.social
Television writer, novelist and bad journalist
The venerable Roads&Kingdoms is back with a print issue. I contributed an essay about the fire and fleeing America. I think it’s among my strongest essays.
Roads & Kingdoms, Issue 1
Included with Conspirator and Fellow Traveler memberships Our annual print magazine includes 144 pages of arresting visuals and in-depth storytelling from writers, artists, and photographers around th...
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November 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The venerable Roads&Kingdoms is back with a print issue. I contributed an essay about the fire and fleeing America. I think it’s among my strongest essays.
Do Not Obey in Advance
September 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Do Not Obey in Advance
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This is excellent and painfully necessary & says a lot more than its headline suggests - so it’s well worth reading it through.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-believ...
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ICE believes it will never face accountability again
The Trump administration is letting an unaccountable secret police form at the heart of our democracy.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
June 20, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This is excellent and painfully necessary & says a lot more than its headline suggests - so it’s well worth reading it through.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-believ...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-believ...
Musk must be delighted they are defacing and vandalizing Waymos instead of Teslas
June 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Musk must be delighted they are defacing and vandalizing Waymos instead of Teslas
How does the NYT do a story about James Frey w/out mentioning his 20 year career as a TV writer and producer? Presumably that’s how he’s made a living. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/s...
Oprah Shamed Him. He’s Back Anyway.
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 10:16 AM
How does the NYT do a story about James Frey w/out mentioning his 20 year career as a TV writer and producer? Presumably that’s how he’s made a living. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/s...
It’s a Home Depot, not a Reichstag, but you see where he is going with this.
June 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
It’s a Home Depot, not a Reichstag, but you see where he is going with this.
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On Ibiza, by @karltaro.bsky.social for Roads and Kingdoms, from 2015:
The Island of No Regrets
In the limitless, drug-fuelled summer before the publication of his first book, the young writer Karl Taro Greenfeld buries looming disappointments with Europe’s drifters in Ibiza.
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May 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
On Ibiza, by @karltaro.bsky.social for Roads and Kingdoms, from 2015:
I wrote what we used to call a “casual” in The Atlantic
Why I’m Leaving Pacific Palisades
My family survived the fire. We want to rebuild. But another, greater conflagration has enveloped us.
www.theatlantic.com
May 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I wrote what we used to call a “casual” in The Atlantic