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Sam Anderson
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Staff Writer, NY Times Magazine

writing: www.shamblanderson.com
drawing: www.instagram.com/shamblanderson
podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/animal/id1749201553
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For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.
November 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Sam Anderson returning to the Thunder beat, years after "Boom Town," is a good, good time. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/m...
The Mind-Blowing Second Coming of the Oklahoma City Thunder
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June 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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can we get @shamblanderson.bsky.social and me as the Timothée and Ben Stiller
Prepare to be dazzled by “celebrity row” in OKC: Wayne Coyne, Thabo Sefolosha, the CEO of Love’s Travel Stop…
June 1, 2025 at 2:34 AM
"Now the prisoner has an advantage over his keeper in this respect, that he is always thinking of escape and watching for opportunities, while the keeper does not constantly think of keeping him."

— Charles Portis, True Grit
May 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I think of this video constantly re: current events (esp the sudden shift 90 seconds in) — they should show it in civics classes

youtu.be/c8-LcuqBwW8?...
concrete halloween skateboarding
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March 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Enjoying the notebooks of Sonny Rollins
March 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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I wrote about my favorite guy, the Old Leatherman: a mysterious 19th-century folk hero who walked a 365-mile loop, obsessively, through NY / CT. He wore a homemade leather suit and slept in caves. Newspapers published endless gossip & fan fiction about him. I walked his route & sat in his caves.
Following in the footsteps of the Old Leatherman, a sort of real-life Northeastern Sasquatch, g​ave one writer an excuse to step outside of his own life.
What I Found on the 365-Mile Trail of a Lost Folk Hero
The Old Leatherman, a sort of real-life Northeastern Sasquatch, g​ave me an excuse to step outside my own life.
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March 9, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I like Orwell’s description of racism as a “vast system of mental cheating.”

Lotta mental cheating going on out there these days.

(Quoted in Anna Funder’s great book WIFEDOM: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life)
February 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
new life motto
February 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
“Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat”

— Andrew Solomon, THE NOONDAY DEMON: An Atlas of Depression
December 13, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024) appreciation thread

"When I die"
December 10, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Not to brag but I had a dream where i made up this joke — i actually woke up in the middle of the night & wrote it down on my phone
December 8, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
December 6,1946
December 6, 2024 at 12:47 PM
Eka Kurniawan, BEAUTY IS A WOUND
December 6, 2024 at 2:49 PM
A.J. Liebling's book about Chicago (CHICAGO: The Second City, 1952) is VERY MEAN and entertaining.
December 5, 2024 at 5:19 PM
In the caveman days of eons past (2010) I started a Twitter account where I posted the best sentence I read every day. (I was book critic for @nymag.com so was reading constantly.) Reading is still my favorite thing, so now I'm gonna try some version of that here.

www.vulture.com/2010/02/ande...
December 5, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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DOOF TRAM
December 5, 2024 at 1:57 PM