Tom Lin
@tom-lin.bsky.social
writing and teaching. assistant prof @uiowa; rep'd by Lisa Queen; Geoff Morley @ UTA. he/him
twotreeforest.com
twotreeforest.com
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Good news: Tom Lin (@tom-lin.bsky.social) has a new novel coming out! Publication is nine months away, ah well. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/tom-l...
Babylon, South Dakota
From the author of the Carnegie Medal in Fiction winner The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu comes a tantalizing, American West saga about a Chinese American fami...
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September 5, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Good news: Tom Lin (@tom-lin.bsky.social) has a new novel coming out! Publication is nine months away, ah well. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/tom-l...
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The historians are speaking plainly & directly.
Timothy Snyder, specialist in the history of Central & Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and the Holocaust.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Timothy Snyder, specialist in the history of Central & Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and the Holocaust.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
open.substack.com
February 3, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The historians are speaking plainly & directly.
Timothy Snyder, specialist in the history of Central & Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and the Holocaust.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Timothy Snyder, specialist in the history of Central & Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and the Holocaust.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
“I’m here to chew gum and kick ass,” he said, unwrapping another stick of Trident, “and I’ve still got like three packs of gum.”
January 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
“I’m here to chew gum and kick ass,” he said, unwrapping another stick of Trident, “and I’ve still got like three packs of gum.”
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"We must grapple with the reality that the current models we have for philanthropy are not up to the task of incubating, developing and supporting strategy on the left."
on the list of serious election post-mortems, highly worth your time to read
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
on the list of serious election post-mortems, highly worth your time to read
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Left Organizing Is in Crisis. Philanthropy Is a Major Reason Why.
Progressive philanthropy lacks good strategy, so too many of our organizations are hollow—and that left us unable to prevent a second Trump term.
www.thenation.com
January 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"We must grapple with the reality that the current models we have for philanthropy are not up to the task of incubating, developing and supporting strategy on the left."
on the list of serious election post-mortems, highly worth your time to read
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
on the list of serious election post-mortems, highly worth your time to read
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
done with the hard part, now onto the hard part!
January 10, 2025 at 7:03 AM
done with the hard part, now onto the hard part!
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doctor: i know what you need. there’s a great clown in town that will cheer you up.
pagliacci: but doc,
doctor: wiggles
pagliacci: oh. haha. i thought-
doctor: i’ll write the name down. there’s another clown in town too, but you can skip it. pagliacci. not funny. bad bad bad bad bad. stupid
pagliacci: but doc,
doctor: wiggles
pagliacci: oh. haha. i thought-
doctor: i’ll write the name down. there’s another clown in town too, but you can skip it. pagliacci. not funny. bad bad bad bad bad. stupid
January 7, 2025 at 2:37 AM
doctor: i know what you need. there’s a great clown in town that will cheer you up.
pagliacci: but doc,
doctor: wiggles
pagliacci: oh. haha. i thought-
doctor: i’ll write the name down. there’s another clown in town too, but you can skip it. pagliacci. not funny. bad bad bad bad bad. stupid
pagliacci: but doc,
doctor: wiggles
pagliacci: oh. haha. i thought-
doctor: i’ll write the name down. there’s another clown in town too, but you can skip it. pagliacci. not funny. bad bad bad bad bad. stupid
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I think journalists, policymakers and good govt types are struggling to understand DOGE because their mental model is that it is a government reform commission, operating like previous ones. Maybe. But it might be better to start thinking about it as a hostile takeover of the govt by oligarchs.
January 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I think journalists, policymakers and good govt types are struggling to understand DOGE because their mental model is that it is a government reform commission, operating like previous ones. Maybe. But it might be better to start thinking about it as a hostile takeover of the govt by oligarchs.
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There are 12 other answers but, as you'll see by reading the first two responses, @colsonwhitehead.com pretty much sums it up
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...
January 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
There are 12 other answers but, as you'll see by reading the first two responses, @colsonwhitehead.com pretty much sums it up
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...
in 2025 this gesture will be coming back in a big way for me
January 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
in 2025 this gesture will be coming back in a big way for me
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there are some days where i have more people mad at me online than my ancestors would have had mad at them in their entire lives. there is functionally no difference between this and being cursed by a witch
May 12, 2024 at 11:57 PM
there are some days where i have more people mad at me online than my ancestors would have had mad at them in their entire lives. there is functionally no difference between this and being cursed by a witch
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i've still got no comparisons for this story to anything else in american politics in my lifetime
Luigi Mangione’s fellow prisoners yelled “Luigi’s conditions suck” and “Free Luigi” from their cells in Pennsylvania during an interview: www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/lui...
December 12, 2024 at 12:54 PM
i've still got no comparisons for this story to anything else in american politics in my lifetime
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Put down your phone and walk through a wall. Or write a book. It's the same thing.
December 10, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Put down your phone and walk through a wall. Or write a book. It's the same thing.
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it wasn't until I read this (very good) @defector.bsky.social story that I realized her name is spelled Haliey, which is just an exceptionally bizarre and cruel decision for her parents to make
The Hawk Tuah Memecoin Rug Pull Is The Apotheosis Of Bag Culture | Defector
I can’t ease you into this one, so: Haliey Welch, colloquially known as the “Hawk Tuah girl,” launched a bespoke cryptocurrency token called HAWK last Wednesday, the same day she told Fortune it was “...
defector.com
December 10, 2024 at 6:16 PM
it wasn't until I read this (very good) @defector.bsky.social story that I realized her name is spelled Haliey, which is just an exceptionally bizarre and cruel decision for her parents to make
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I would love to write a piece on the Adjustor’s goodreads profile.
December 9, 2024 at 7:04 PM
I would love to write a piece on the Adjustor’s goodreads profile.
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Only ever thinking of Søren Solkær's photographs of starling murmurations.
December 5, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Only ever thinking of Søren Solkær's photographs of starling murmurations.
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WISDOM IS BACK!!!
(If you're not familiar, this fantastic queen of a bird has been hatching chicks on Midway for at least 74 years and is practically saving her species)
(If you're not familiar, this fantastic queen of a bird has been hatching chicks on Midway for at least 74 years and is practically saving her species)
Wisdom's still alive, she's back at her breeding grounds! This season she'll turn at least 74 years old. 🎉🎊💃
November 28, 2024 at 6:31 PM
WISDOM IS BACK!!!
(If you're not familiar, this fantastic queen of a bird has been hatching chicks on Midway for at least 74 years and is practically saving her species)
(If you're not familiar, this fantastic queen of a bird has been hatching chicks on Midway for at least 74 years and is practically saving her species)
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I was already excited to click on a news story about Rudy Giuliani having a meltdown in court today and YELLING at the judge. But nothing prepared me for the courtroom sketch
November 26, 2024 at 7:02 PM
I was already excited to click on a news story about Rudy Giuliani having a meltdown in court today and YELLING at the judge. But nothing prepared me for the courtroom sketch
devastating truth
In order to write a book, you have to write a book.
November 24, 2024 at 4:23 PM
devastating truth
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Barnard Bulletin, New York, November 22, 1938
November 23, 2024 at 1:59 AM
Barnard Bulletin, New York, November 22, 1938
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Melons could kill you; so could melancholy. In his new book Eating and Being, the historian of science Steven Shapin analyzes the longest-enduring system of medical and gastronomic thought in European history, dietetics. My review is up at LARB: lareviewofbooks.org/article/on-m...
On Melons and Melancholy | Los Angeles Review of Books
Ben Wurgaft demonstrates how Steven Shapin’s “Eating and Being” illuminates the intellectual and cultural dynamics of “dietetics”—the relationship between diet, health, and identity—like no prior work...
lareviewofbooks.org
November 20, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Melons could kill you; so could melancholy. In his new book Eating and Being, the historian of science Steven Shapin analyzes the longest-enduring system of medical and gastronomic thought in European history, dietetics. My review is up at LARB: lareviewofbooks.org/article/on-m...
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why is this written like this lol www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...
Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century: “I Loved Him. He Was My Safety.”
When he was 42, Cormac McCarthy fell in love with a 16-year-old girl he met by a motel pool. Augusta Britt would go on to become one of the most significant—and secret—inspirations in literary history...
www.vanityfair.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:16 PM
why is this written like this lol www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...
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politics reporters are so washed man. i can't find any information on Walz's bench, squat, or power clean at all
August 6, 2024 at 6:01 PM
politics reporters are so washed man. i can't find any information on Walz's bench, squat, or power clean at all
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I am so honored to be speaking at the National Book Festival this month, an annual celebration of books put on by The Library of Congress. If you’re in the DC area I hope you’ll come see me speak with Alexander Sammartino about writing violence and the west.
www.loc.gov/events/2024-...
www.loc.gov/events/2024-...
Fathers, Sons, Guns — Novels of the West: Elizabeth Gonzalez James, Alexander Sammartino
We learn from the news that America is a violent country, but how do novelists reckon with that violence? In Elizabeth Gonzalez James’ Texas novel “The Bullet Swallower,” the legacy of two brothers an...
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August 6, 2024 at 6:09 PM
I am so honored to be speaking at the National Book Festival this month, an annual celebration of books put on by The Library of Congress. If you’re in the DC area I hope you’ll come see me speak with Alexander Sammartino about writing violence and the west.
www.loc.gov/events/2024-...
www.loc.gov/events/2024-...