Sam Corbin
@samcorbin.bsky.social
🏁 crossword column for @nytimes.com
✍️ humor for NYer
📖 writing a book about the WOTY-verse
✍️ humor for NYer
📖 writing a book about the WOTY-verse
this book has wordplay specific to every day of the year. tell me your birthday, and I will reveal your topsy-turvy prophecy
October 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
this book has wordplay specific to every day of the year. tell me your birthday, and I will reveal your topsy-turvy prophecy
shocked to discover that my editor kept my unhinged headline for this newsletter about mnemonics, “Finding Mnemo”
September 29, 2025 at 11:20 AM
shocked to discover that my editor kept my unhinged headline for this newsletter about mnemonics, “Finding Mnemo”
I have truly outdone myself. the width. the lack of height. the absent knots. no, don’t look away
September 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I have truly outdone myself. the width. the lack of height. the absent knots. no, don’t look away
haven’t posted in a minute and I am pleased to return to the mic with a severely chaotic vegan challah situation
September 23, 2025 at 3:15 AM
haven’t posted in a minute and I am pleased to return to the mic with a severely chaotic vegan challah situation
begging you to rethink this rachel
August 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
begging you to rethink this rachel
let the record show that my original headline for this newsletter was “Great expectations for young Pips”
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August 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
let the record show that my original headline for this newsletter was “Great expectations for young Pips”
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it’s the only way I can think of to capture the scrub daddy-level deterioration of my browser hygiene as I relentlessly open tabs with “[word] synonym”
August 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
it’s the only way I can think of to capture the scrub daddy-level deterioration of my browser hygiene as I relentlessly open tabs with “[word] synonym”
ngl they got me with calling thursday “friday jr”
August 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
ngl they got me with calling thursday “friday jr”
academic literature is profoundly unserious
July 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
academic literature is profoundly unserious
i’m in a group chat with some girls on trips, one is currently in paris and the other in florence. they’re sharing pics of the best-looking pasta and architecture i’ve ever seen in my life and i’m sharing this
July 13, 2025 at 3:32 AM
i’m in a group chat with some girls on trips, one is currently in paris and the other in florence. they’re sharing pics of the best-looking pasta and architecture i’ve ever seen in my life and i’m sharing this
tell me you would not engage him in lively repartee
July 12, 2025 at 2:38 AM
tell me you would not engage him in lively repartee
society must never know how much I identify with this man
July 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
society must never know how much I identify with this man
oh you thought i was joking
July 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
oh you thought i was joking
and as of yesterday, the jank top
June 22, 2025 at 11:07 AM
and as of yesterday, the jank top
the jase / jencil holder
June 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
the jase / jencil holder
a thread of denim items I have seen in 2025 so far, beginning with the jalt jaker:
June 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
a thread of denim items I have seen in 2025 so far, beginning with the jalt jaker:
ok well then what am I looking at
June 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
ok well then what am I looking at
it is bizarrely slated to be like 20 degrees cooler on the beach so in the words of melville, I account it high time to get to sea!!
June 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
it is bizarrely slated to be like 20 degrees cooler on the beach so in the words of melville, I account it high time to get to sea!!
I am writing a book about all of my favorite things and hopefully not becoming a hermit in the process!!!
June 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I am writing a book about all of my favorite things and hopefully not becoming a hermit in the process!!!
nothing suspicious about this website. putting in my credit card information as we speak
June 15, 2025 at 1:56 AM
nothing suspicious about this website. putting in my credit card information as we speak
apologies to everyone who already knew what a leaf-nosed bat looked like but I am losing my gd mind, how did nature yield such a ridiculous bone kite
June 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
apologies to everyone who already knew what a leaf-nosed bat looked like but I am losing my gd mind, how did nature yield such a ridiculous bone kite
it’s a bag of tea so this is now kind of seeming like a trick to me
May 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
it’s a bag of tea so this is now kind of seeming like a trick to me
always love to imagine the board meetings where these names for startups get pitched and approved, like “ok hear me out, what if it’s chefs but…spelled with an S” [ceo gasps, kisses employee on the mouth]
April 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
always love to imagine the board meetings where these names for startups get pitched and approved, like “ok hear me out, what if it’s chefs but…spelled with an S” [ceo gasps, kisses employee on the mouth]