great story. tangentially, this issue has been really devastating in health care (which anna also follows closely)
a friend of mine that's an ob-gyn has hella stories of patients developing bad complications because of grifter misinfo and algo-driven spirals that make them wary of all meds
*surely some hood lit features it tho, right???
magic city discourse has made me realize I might* be the only atlanta novelist to feature it in a book
can't make this shit up
"Shideler called Signal a 'hallmark of antifa' before adding that he uses it himself."
theintercept.com/2026/03/09/p...
I wrote about the NBA’s cancellation of the Hawks’ magic city night and what makes Atlanta different from everywhere else
defector.com/the-atlanta-...
I clicked a diesel ad in like 2013 and those mfs have been in hot pursuit ever since
I reviewed the wonderful new Arima Ederra record
pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Don't even try to get into publicly predicting where Chainsaw Man is headed. You will lose.
spend any time in spaces shaped by fandom & yeah, you'll see people use terms like "worldbuilding," "fridging," and "pacing," but incoherently and with no sense of context or taste.
tl;dr booktok POV discourse is of the same intellectual order as debates over movie length
there's a version of this that doesn't get out over its skis, but the deeper issue is that it takes booktok at its word
when booktokkers gripe about POV (or praise it), they aren't really thinking about style, mechanics or storytelling. they're regurgitating jargon
slate.com/culture/2026...
today at @pitchfork.com i wrote about TIGRAY FUNK, sideshow's haunted, worn-out masterpiece. it's some of the Best New Music you'll hear right now
great piece. the erosion of search has made finding old music journalism even more frustrating
I use proquest through a friend's NYPL card to access a lot of mag and newspaper archives, but pdfs aren't as easy to share as links (and what if my friend moves?!?)
I wrote about old rap magazines, the fight for the future of hip hop’s past, and the impact the digital age has had on history, for @defector.com
defector.com/lost-recipes
I do not understand the (audience) appeal of the celebrity letterboxd account
why does this administration love to initiate its imperial fuckshit on weekends
a true full service restaurant
tbqh 50 cent and TI beefing wouldn't have been interesting even in 2006
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
what is the gambling industry's nickname? I've been saying Big Slot
that Bojack bit about "AOL-Time-Warner-Pepsico-Viacom-Halliburton-Skynet-Toyota-Trader-Joe's" is hitting pretty hard today
People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws
appreciated this ending on prediction markets and the gambling creep more broadly
www.npr.org/2026/02/26/n...
(obviously I am deeply honored)
realizing 2.5 years later that this was a proto 'weird girl lit' roundup
betches.com/books-for-un...
lol yeah twas a different time
