Peter D. Kramer
@peterdkramer.bsky.social
Author, most recently, of Death of the Great Man, a novel. Also new: 30th anniversary edition of Listening to Prozac. peterdkramer.com
Interestingly, despite research subjects' getting much more attention from caregivers in the psychotherapy arm, SSRIs were more effective at treating and preventing depression.
November 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Interestingly, despite research subjects' getting much more attention from caregivers in the psychotherapy arm, SSRIs were more effective at treating and preventing depression.
Was in, is out: LATEEN
October 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Was in, is out: LATEEN
Twofer today:
Was in, is out: BELATE
Was in, is out: ABETTAL
Was in, is out: BELATE
Was in, is out: ABETTAL
October 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Twofer today:
Was in, is out: BELATE
Was in, is out: ABETTAL
Was in, is out: BELATE
Was in, is out: ABETTAL
[what else had made the cut was: LABIALIZING.]
October 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
[what else had made the cut was: LABIALIZING.]
Given what else made the cut today, BANALIZING (missing pangram) would have fit fine.
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/b...
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/b...
October 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Given what else made the cut today, BANALIZING (missing pangram) would have fit fine.
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/b...
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/b...
Was in, is out: NOONTIDE
September 29, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Was in, is out: NOONTIDE
Apeneck Sweeney spread his knees
Letting his arms hang down to laugh,
The zebra stripes along his jaw
Swelling to MACULATE giraffe.
TS Eliot, Sweeny among the Nightingales
[missing pangram]
Letting his arms hang down to laugh,
The zebra stripes along his jaw
Swelling to MACULATE giraffe.
TS Eliot, Sweeny among the Nightingales
[missing pangram]
September 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Apeneck Sweeney spread his knees
Letting his arms hang down to laugh,
The zebra stripes along his jaw
Swelling to MACULATE giraffe.
TS Eliot, Sweeny among the Nightingales
[missing pangram]
Letting his arms hang down to laugh,
The zebra stripes along his jaw
Swelling to MACULATE giraffe.
TS Eliot, Sweeny among the Nightingales
[missing pangram]
While I'm at it: If MICROCRACK was low frequency, how about ANABIOTIC?
September 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
While I'm at it: If MICROCRACK was low frequency, how about ANABIOTIC?
While I'm at it: a link to the current—30th anniversary—edition of Listening to Prozac.
bookshop.org/p/books/list...
bookshop.org/p/books/list...
Listening to Prozac: The Landmark Book About Antidepressants and the Remaking of the Self
The Landmark Book About Antidepressants and the Remaking of the Self
bookshop.org
September 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
While I'm at it: a link to the current—30th anniversary—edition of Listening to Prozac.
bookshop.org/p/books/list...
bookshop.org/p/books/list...
Yesterday's formerly accepted word: TELETYPED.
@merriam-webster.com does not accept TELETYPE as a verb, but the OED finds many examples from 1904 to 2007.
& why isn't the OED here on BlueSky?
@merriam-webster.com does not accept TELETYPE as a verb, but the OED finds many examples from 1904 to 2007.
& why isn't the OED here on BlueSky?
August 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Yesterday's formerly accepted word: TELETYPED.
@merriam-webster.com does not accept TELETYPE as a verb, but the OED finds many examples from 1904 to 2007.
& why isn't the OED here on BlueSky?
@merriam-webster.com does not accept TELETYPE as a verb, but the OED finds many examples from 1904 to 2007.
& why isn't the OED here on BlueSky?
was in, is out: past tense of an accepted entry
August 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
was in, is out: past tense of an accepted entry
I'm thinking of Cato the Elder's policy of ending every speech with the demand that Carthage must be destroyed: that kind of consistency.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthag...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthag...
Carthago delenda est - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
August 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I'm thinking of Cato the Elder's policy of ending every speech with the demand that Carthage must be destroyed: that kind of consistency.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthag...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthag...
I think that this sort of reminder should appear as a drumbeat—an element in all reporting on Trump's various transgressions. Every article should include that reminder: This act also serves to undercut democracy, concentrate power, and move us toward tyranny.
August 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I think that this sort of reminder should appear as a drumbeat—an element in all reporting on Trump's various transgressions. Every article should include that reminder: This act also serves to undercut democracy, concentrate power, and move us toward tyranny.
Authoritarian playbook: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...
Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook
www.nytimes.com
August 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Authoritarian playbook: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...
Glory days. Here's the cover, with an image taken from the office television. I was a college intern, but I had three pieces in the issue & got written up in the house organ, N/W. In the photo, I was more or less in uniform, wearing a seersucker suit with a thin bow tie.
July 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Glory days. Here's the cover, with an image taken from the office television. I was a college intern, but I had three pieces in the issue & got written up in the house organ, N/W. In the photo, I was more or less in uniform, wearing a seersucker suit with a thin bow tie.
Here's a link:
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-bra...
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-bra...
Trump's Brazil Tariff Is Blatantly Illegal
Shouldn't someone be suing?
paulkrugman.substack.com
July 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Here's a link:
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-bra...
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-bra...
Funny, I just wished for a linguist to go to work on "biblical grounds" for divorce. A copy editor will do nicely.
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bsky.app/profile/pete...
July 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Funny, I just wished for a linguist to go to work on "biblical grounds" for divorce. A copy editor will do nicely.
bsky.app/profile/pete...
bsky.app/profile/pete...