Will Pavia
@willpavia.bsky.social
New York correspondent for The Times
Harper Lee's '50s short stories, published tomorrow, are wonderful. There's one about attempting to sweet talk her way out of parking ticket by quoting Victorian literature. Sadly, the NYPD officer is unmoved
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Revealed: Harper Lee’s unseen stories — published at last
Eight neatly typed short stories by the To Kill a Mockingbird author were discovered after her death. Will Pavia reads them and talks to her nephew — plus read Lee’s letter to Oprah Winfrey and how sh...
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October 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Harper Lee's '50s short stories, published tomorrow, are wonderful. There's one about attempting to sweet talk her way out of parking ticket by quoting Victorian literature. Sadly, the NYPD officer is unmoved
www.thetimes.com/article/b4ff...
www.thetimes.com/article/b4ff...
The cameras roll, the back of a lorry opens and out comes a swirl of dry ice and a silver DeLorean.
“And this guy jumps out and he goes, ‘MARTY!’ ” says Michael J Fox. “I’m, like, ‘Holy shit!’"
He shot that film with no rehearsal. It was wonderful to chat with him
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“And this guy jumps out and he goes, ‘MARTY!’ ” says Michael J Fox. “I’m, like, ‘Holy shit!’"
He shot that film with no rehearsal. It was wonderful to chat with him
www.thetimes.com/article/1d91...
Michael J Fox: ‘Dying? I just haven’t had the time’
The actor has lived with Parkinson’s disease since he was 29. Now 64, he’s jamming with Coldplay at Glastonbury and has written a new book about the film that made him a megastar. He takes Will Pavia ...
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October 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The cameras roll, the back of a lorry opens and out comes a swirl of dry ice and a silver DeLorean.
“And this guy jumps out and he goes, ‘MARTY!’ ” says Michael J Fox. “I’m, like, ‘Holy shit!’"
He shot that film with no rehearsal. It was wonderful to chat with him
www.thetimes.com/article/1d91...
“And this guy jumps out and he goes, ‘MARTY!’ ” says Michael J Fox. “I’m, like, ‘Holy shit!’"
He shot that film with no rehearsal. It was wonderful to chat with him
www.thetimes.com/article/1d91...
I've spoken to some brilliant comedy writers about the Jimmy Kimmel suspension, and how writers will respond
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‘Terrifying’: comedy writers blast Trump and FCC after Jimmy Kimmel suspension
Leading TV figures say the industry, whose presenters are often anti-Trump, is being censored after ABC host was taken off air over Charlie Kirk comments
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September 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I've spoken to some brilliant comedy writers about the Jimmy Kimmel suspension, and how writers will respond
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When the rapper Doja Cat eats a tube of lipstick, what does it mean for humanity and/or the advertising industry and celebrity endorsements? Answers to these pressing questions here
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Doja Cat’s lipstick stunt is the best celebrity endorsement of all time
Mere product placement is not enough anymore, experts say. Advertisement campaigns need to offer something edgy and new to go viral
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September 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
When the rapper Doja Cat eats a tube of lipstick, what does it mean for humanity and/or the advertising industry and celebrity endorsements? Answers to these pressing questions here
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Once there were some Americans who thought Oasis a poor imitation of the Beatles; now their music may be old enough to sound original.
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Excellent line from @willpavia.bsky.social
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Excellent line from @willpavia.bsky.social
Is America finally warming to Oasis? Definitely, maybe
Oasis tour: While the swagger and obvious hostility between brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher put many off in old days, their Chicago show suggests things have changed
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August 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Once there were some Americans who thought Oasis a poor imitation of the Beatles; now their music may be old enough to sound original.
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Excellent line from @willpavia.bsky.social
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Excellent line from @willpavia.bsky.social
I spent the day outside Bruce Springsteen's old bungalow, hoping to spot the Boss returning, as he apparently does each year, to solemnly contemplate the place where it all began. It was just me and about fifty other people
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My day waiting for Bruce Springsteen with his most ardent superfans
The Boss says he returns to the bungalow where he wrote Born to Run on every anniversary of the album’s release. The Spring-Nuts have taken him at his word
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August 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I spent the day outside Bruce Springsteen's old bungalow, hoping to spot the Boss returning, as he apparently does each year, to solemnly contemplate the place where it all began. It was just me and about fifty other people
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How to talk, or at least understand, Alpha.
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Excellent by @willpavia.bsky.social
What I like is that there is a kind of logic behind it all, so it's possible to get the answers in the quiz.
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Excellent by @willpavia.bsky.social
What I like is that there is a kind of logic behind it all, so it's possible to get the answers in the quiz.
Six-seven, sigma, unc — what the kids are saying behind your back
Test your knowledge of the ‘Alpha-bet’ — the baffling slang used by Generation Alpha — in our quiz
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August 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
How to talk, or at least understand, Alpha.
(£) www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...
Excellent by @willpavia.bsky.social
What I like is that there is a kind of logic behind it all, so it's possible to get the answers in the quiz.
(£) www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...
Excellent by @willpavia.bsky.social
What I like is that there is a kind of logic behind it all, so it's possible to get the answers in the quiz.
A (possibly far too lengthy) investigation into the moustaches appearing on the faces of young men, and what it might mean, including, I'm afraid, some undercover work
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My hair-raising investigation into a Gen Z cult
Will Pavia volunteered his face for a social experiment. At first he hated his moustache — then it suddenly grew on him
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July 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A (possibly far too lengthy) investigation into the moustaches appearing on the faces of young men, and what it might mean, including, I'm afraid, some undercover work
www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...
www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...
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And sometimes they even feature Us in the news!
Shout out to @thetimes.com and our incredibly brave and super cool news journalist friend, @willpavia.bsky.social!
Check it out: www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...
Shout out to @thetimes.com and our incredibly brave and super cool news journalist friend, @willpavia.bsky.social!
Check it out: www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...
July 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
And sometimes they even feature Us in the news!
Shout out to @thetimes.com and our incredibly brave and super cool news journalist friend, @willpavia.bsky.social!
Check it out: www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...
Shout out to @thetimes.com and our incredibly brave and super cool news journalist friend, @willpavia.bsky.social!
Check it out: www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...
I’ve spoken to some experts about the dangers of Italian brainrot, and only three of them were my children
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Do not read this article if you are over six. You won’t get it
Meet Ballerina Cappucina, Bombardino Crocodilo and Tung Tung Tung Sahur — the little monsters of TikTok whose express purpose is to rot your child’s brain
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May 29, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I’ve spoken to some experts about the dangers of Italian brainrot, and only three of them were my children
www.thetimes.com/article/3907...
www.thetimes.com/article/3907...
In a further sign of the end times, the auto-transcriber I use keeps rendering Joan Didion as ‘Diddy’
May 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
In a further sign of the end times, the auto-transcriber I use keeps rendering Joan Didion as ‘Diddy’
I went, very inadequately dressed, to New York's big fashion event of the week, the Debt Gala, which is like the one at the Met except that people enjoy it
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‘Let them eat cake’: the Met Gala is dead, long live the Debt Gala
In Brooklyn, those who cannot afford $75,000 for a ticket to the high-fashion event raise funds for people in the red over healthcare. It’s a spectacle like no other
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May 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I went, very inadequately dressed, to New York's big fashion event of the week, the Debt Gala, which is like the one at the Met except that people enjoy it
www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...
www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...
I talked with Kelsey Grammer about piecing together the awful details of his sister’s murder, and about a glimpse of heaven, from a surfboard: ‘I looked up and saw the sun through the wave and it happened… an awareness suddenly that, oh, I’m in heaven already.’
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Kelsey Grammer: The truth about my sister’s horrific murder
The actor is best known for playing the psychiatrist Frasier in the hit sitcom. But behind the success lay his drink and drug abuse due to the death of his sister Karen
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May 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I talked with Kelsey Grammer about piecing together the awful details of his sister’s murder, and about a glimpse of heaven, from a surfboard: ‘I looked up and saw the sun through the wave and it happened… an awareness suddenly that, oh, I’m in heaven already.’
www.thetimes.com/article/df64...
www.thetimes.com/article/df64...
After a hundred days of Trump’s second term, town hall meetings in rural Iowa are pretty feisty
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In Trump-voting Iowa, farmers have started to shout at each other
In our second dispatch from the new president’s America, our writer in this polite corner of the Midwest sees tensions rise over tariffs and tattoos
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April 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
After a hundred days of Trump’s second term, town hall meetings in rural Iowa are pretty feisty
www.thetimes.com/article/3e5a...
www.thetimes.com/article/3e5a...
What it’s like to surf in the industrial marshland of northern New Jersey, with the only high school shopping mall surf club
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I tried the white-glove surfing experience —inside a shopping mall
The Times correspondent Will Pavia joins Lodi High School surf club, the only one in the state, to catch some waves — despite being 40 miles from the sea
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March 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
What it’s like to surf in the industrial marshland of northern New Jersey, with the only high school shopping mall surf club
www.thetimes.com/article/155d...
www.thetimes.com/article/155d...
I went on patrol with the fashion policeman Nicky Campbell (or at least we talked about crimes he has investigated, and he gently roasted my outfit)
🔓 This story is free to read
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🔓 This story is free to read
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Meet Nicky Campbell, the brutal red carpet ‘fashion police’
It’s awards season and there’s a new star in town: Nicky Campbell, the former Vogue assistant whose blunt appraisals of celebrities’ outfits have turned him into a TikTok phenomenon
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March 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I went on patrol with the fashion policeman Nicky Campbell (or at least we talked about crimes he has investigated, and he gently roasted my outfit)
🔓 This story is free to read
www.thetimes.com/article/dd0f...
🔓 This story is free to read
www.thetimes.com/article/dd0f...
I have been in Central Park covering the conflict between runners and cyclists. I went in there at dawn, like the great Anthony Lloyd into a warzone, with barely a thought for my own personal safety
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Central Park’s runners and riders are at war. Could I help them make peace?
When is a red light not a red light? Our writer finds out
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March 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I have been in Central Park covering the conflict between runners and cyclists. I went in there at dawn, like the great Anthony Lloyd into a warzone, with barely a thought for my own personal safety
www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...
www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...
The Times paywall is down this weekend: it's a chance to read silly writing about Trump singing and Elon Musk looking slightly like a seal
I loved this from @willpavia.bsky.social - great writing. “Musk was there… bowing his great square head like a seal trying to catch a ball on its nose.” www.thetimes.com/article/f3ff...
Trump put a 13-year-old in the Secret Service. How do you top that?
This was the longest presidential address to a joint Congress in history — and it was not short on theatrics or surprises
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March 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The Times paywall is down this weekend: it's a chance to read silly writing about Trump singing and Elon Musk looking slightly like a seal
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🗣 ' Rushdie does not believe someone would write an equivalent of The Satanic Verses today'
What the Salman Rushdie trial means for free speech ⬇️
🎙 The Story podcast
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What the Salman Rushdie trial means for free speech ⬇️
🎙 The Story podcast
🗣 @jonesluke.bsky.social | @willpavia.bsky.social | @robbiemillen.bsky.social
What the Salman Rushdie trial means for free speech
The Story · Episode
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February 20, 2025 at 12:09 PM
🗣 ' Rushdie does not believe someone would write an equivalent of The Satanic Verses today'
What the Salman Rushdie trial means for free speech ⬇️
🎙 The Story podcast
🗣 @jonesluke.bsky.social | @willpavia.bsky.social | @robbiemillen.bsky.social
What the Salman Rushdie trial means for free speech ⬇️
🎙 The Story podcast
🗣 @jonesluke.bsky.social | @willpavia.bsky.social | @robbiemillen.bsky.social
I can’t believe this. It’s like the masterpiece films that go up in smoke in a Paul Auster novel and all we have of them is the written account of someone lucky enough to see them
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The Netflix documentary Prince’s estate won’t let you see
After paying millions for access to the star’s archive and enlisting an Oscar-winning director for five years, this is how it fell apart for the producers
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February 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I can’t believe this. It’s like the masterpiece films that go up in smoke in a Paul Auster novel and all we have of them is the written account of someone lucky enough to see them
www.thetimes.com/article/67b6...
www.thetimes.com/article/67b6...
My six-year-old tells me that the eggs we have bought do not have bird flu. He is confident of this because the hen portrayed on the box, in a cartoon diagram, 'looks pretty healthy'
January 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
My six-year-old tells me that the eggs we have bought do not have bird flu. He is confident of this because the hen portrayed on the box, in a cartoon diagram, 'looks pretty healthy'
I had an appointment with a doctor recently who is also, secretly, the author of four of the bestselling books of 2024, known to her fans as Freida McFadden.
(I say appointment, I mean interview obviously. Still, it felt like the set up for one of her thrillers)
www.thetimes.com/article/dbb0...
(I say appointment, I mean interview obviously. Still, it felt like the set up for one of her thrillers)
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Meet ‘Freida McFadden’, the doctor hiding her secret life as a bestselling author
The Housemaid author has sold 17 million books and topped book charts around the world — but even her hospital boss doesn’t know about her double life
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January 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I had an appointment with a doctor recently who is also, secretly, the author of four of the bestselling books of 2024, known to her fans as Freida McFadden.
(I say appointment, I mean interview obviously. Still, it felt like the set up for one of her thrillers)
www.thetimes.com/article/dbb0...
(I say appointment, I mean interview obviously. Still, it felt like the set up for one of her thrillers)
www.thetimes.com/article/dbb0...