This newsletter is so good y'all if you like really smart analysis of popular culture with deep historical context. Very recommend!
11.03.2026 00:07
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This newsletter is so good y'all if you like really smart analysis of popular culture with deep historical context. Very recommend!
Haggard and dejected Bugs Bunny wearing a suit and bowtie, drinking carrot juice in the dark
We McFlurry too close to the sun
I know it's only March, but I believe that "sloppelganger" is 2026 Word of the Year
i’d like for some people to grapple with the fact that “the most important election of our lifetime,” if you actually mean it, implies that the governance period following it is also the most important governance period of our lifetime, and adjust their demands/expectations/behaviors accordingly
Zbbbbt. Zbbbbt.
Words I did not expect to utter in 2026:
I am aghast! I have my fingertips on my clavicle and everything.
Kayleigh. Oh my word.
I truly cannot wait for this. I love to eat! (The rich)
Every word is more cursed than the last. I'm. In awe.
Also: Bring back the weck you cowards!
📣📣 FULL U.S. BOOK TOUR DATES ANNOUNCEMENT 📣📣
Starting April 4, I'm going to so many cities that the preview image is tiny font!!
Come see me in person and get your book(s) signed. We have lined up an extraordinary array of conversation partners, from novelists to poets and scientists. 📚💙🧪🔭⚛️
Aaaah! Hi to your boss's boss.
Checking that authors are real people is a deeply stupid and necessary task. thank you for doing it
Thank you!!
Alas, no.
OOOH - thank you!
Oooh - good one. I'll add that to my list to check in with this reader. Thank you!
This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.
Trying to identify a title!
Can you think of a cozy fantasy cottage core book that features
- found family
- small towns
- cats, mermaids AND unicorns
and IS NOT The Spellshop?
We're hunting for a book for a reader. Any suggestions?
Screenshot of About Manchester article
Screenshot of About Manchester article
🎉 A big thank you to About Manchester for the lovely write-up on our upcoming exhibition!
Agreed. And I think the composition of the photo itself reads as a commentary on his presence.
the whole purpose of the post-menopausal woman is to prevent the rise of generative AI
It's like a parallel commentary to bookend the line about how Blume's bio should be written by a woman. Wowser.
The photo at the top is really striking: why is this man sitting on a child's bunk bed in his socks surrounded by books? What is he doing there?
He's too big for the space. That place isn't meant for him, next to middle grade stories and smaller scale furniture. He does not belong there.
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Brilliant 🏆
Isata Kanneh-Mason absolutely tears through Rachmaninoff’s fiendish Piano Concerto No. 3 with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
If Timothee Chalamet wants to make being a reverse-snob part of his deal, whatever. Be a child, you know?
But at a time when arts funding and support are so imperiled, it would be nice not to lead with your contempt for wide swaths of the arts during your campaign to have your own art recognized.
Yup.
It sucks.
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
look, I have the six, eight, nine, and ten of Hormuz
