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Sam Anderson
@shamblanderson.bsky.social
Staff Writer, NY Times Magazine

writing: www.shamblanderson.com
drawing: www.instagram.com/shamblanderson
podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/animal/id1749201553
Enjoying the notebooks of Sonny Rollins
March 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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March 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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March 1, 2025 at 5:05 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
And her interviews / speeches — she was just relentlessly a living spiky THINKING honest brilliant feeling human being. Perfect antidote / supplement to American public discourse these days.

Highly recommend this great book BLACK WOMEN WRITERS AT WORK
December 10, 2024 at 4:10 PM
I fell in love with Nikki Giovanni as a teenager when this poem "Balances" made me cry in a creative writing class (I'd never heard of her & imagined her at first as an Italian man)
December 10, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Pick up any of her books — they're so alive & engaging, full of laughs / rage / weirdness and tiny beauties like this
December 10, 2024 at 4:10 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
December 6, 2024 at 2:49 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
This sign has an actual photo of the terrible thing it warns against happening
November 28, 2024 at 6:30 PM