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Novelist, memoirist, co-founder of The Los Angeles Review of Books

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In her defense, she didn’t write it. (That doesn’t redeem the song, but blame The Arrows, not Joan)

10.03.2026 21:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hahahahaha. As I happen to love Tree of Life that both delights and slightly horrifies me in equal measure

10.03.2026 21:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm guessing this is dialogue from the film? (I've never seen it, because I once saw about ten seconds of it on cable--"You stick your dick in that, Jim?" "Uh, sometimes"--and figured it couldn't possibly get better/worse than that. I might finally be sold!)

10.03.2026 18:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m not gonna set myself up with this particular hellacious task—tough to choose ten, let alone five—but I am gonna queue up GUWI right now, so bless

09.03.2026 19:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🙌 Get Up With It

09.03.2026 19:54 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Let's Take Some Drugs and Drive Around
Let's Take Some Drugs and Drive Around YouTube video by The Silos - Topic

Man, I’m surprised you didn’t go with the real anthem here

youtu.be/JynHRxnlwXg?...

09.03.2026 15:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

When this song achieves escape velocity it’s like standing *barely* downwind of an aircraft taking off. Insane

08.03.2026 22:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Preview
The Book Supplement,Vol. 1 Anne Fadiman, Mieko Kawakami, Polly Atkin, and Bruce Robbins.

Here is the first issue of The Book Supplement 💗📚

08.03.2026 14:29 👍 48 🔁 24 💬 0 📌 4

Hell yes. Strange movie that’s a little slow off the blocks (not really a criticism) but that really delivers. One of my favorite sleeper pics of that era

08.03.2026 20:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

08.03.2026 00:29 👍 5948 🔁 3446 💬 285 📌 234

This is excellent. (So, uh, Sturgill Simpson + @flyingmojitobros.bsky.social collaboration when?)

02.03.2026 17:43 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

02.03.2026 10:20 👍 13562 🔁 4301 💬 132 📌 177

Ah, thanks for reading, man! Totally concur, re: Kobek. Man, he's so good

28.02.2026 21:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

These depraved motherfuckers. May they never know peace.

28.02.2026 17:42 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is it too early to sign James Tibbs IV, in this case?

27.02.2026 20:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Here’s wishing you a good night’s sleep and the editor in question a night of restlessness as he/she/they struggles to find the right words to tell you how much they love it

27.02.2026 04:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Everybody is really sleeping on the “Oracle gets destroyed by openai and data center debt” as a possibility

27.02.2026 04:06 👍 2513 🔁 426 💬 58 📌 24

Yeah, that account’s gonna be a big fucking yikes from me. Come for the ableist slurs, stay for the—nah, not staying for any of it, man. Block block block block block

26.02.2026 23:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Jay looks pretty gakked out there

26.02.2026 22:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Christ

25.02.2026 19:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Christallmotherfuckingmighty. "Is Hitting My Thumb With This Hammer Making My Hand Hurt?" Thank God the NYT is on it.

25.02.2026 17:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They didn’t call him “Tricky” Dick for nothing, baby!

24.02.2026 22:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It really is. I’d never considered those books that way, and now I’ll never be able to do otherwise

24.02.2026 15:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Take all you need. Just as long as you take a cup or two of my moral INferiority too. I’ve got plenty of

24.02.2026 00:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Like, no, I pretend to no moral superiority (or any other kind) because I don’t/won’t use it—many people I love and admire do, for all sorts of things—but I’m not entirely certain it’s possible to use AI even unintentionally(as we all do, and I do too) without eroding yourself in meaningful ways

24.02.2026 00:30 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Today in Tabs is great today, as it so often is, but I can’t get this bit about treating people like things/things like people out of my head

24.02.2026 00:25 👍 17 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0

In fairness, Colin, it’s one hell of a crab. Thank you for your service 🙏🏻

23.02.2026 05:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Of all the terrible, terrible pundits employed by the NYT, including Brooks (who thinks like a person who’s received multiple recent concussions) and Douthat (I’m not even sure it’s that good), he may well be the worst. Oof

22.02.2026 20:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A different version of this (I think) was on the tape! Looks like there’s a bit of other stuff on YT now also, in fact. Wish he’d bandcamp it, tho I certainly understand (we all have our feelings about juvenilia after all) why he might not wanna

22.02.2026 06:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Every time I come across this (very good) band I am reminded there was another Telltale Hearts in the UK who were Mark Refoy’s pre-S3 outfit. Years ago I had a demo cassette but it’s long lost, sadly. It was great—a little AR Kane-ish, as I recall. Sigh

22.02.2026 05:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0