Vintage Contemporaries, How to Be a Family, The World Only Spins Forward, Facing Future. Fall 2024: Hampton Heights
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“I remember my own childhood vividly. I knew terrible things, but I knew I mustn’t let adults 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 I knew. It would scare them.”
–Maurice Sendak
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Delighted to announce that my plane was showing THE LAST DUEL but the closed-captioning was from KNIVES OUT
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I wrote about something that has been driving me crazy this week slate.com/news-and-politics/…
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Ladies and gentlemen,
I present you the Korok Rotisserie machine.
#ZeldaTearsOfKingdom
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Incredible fortune for the Raptors, to win a championship and also not have to get invited to the white house
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If you ever read something and love it and wonder, "should I email the person who wrote it and tell them?" the answer is always yes
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publishing this is malpractice insider.com/nyu-student-hate…
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Everyone knows the story of TÁR, right? She gets swept up in "cancel culture," and down she falls. But I think there's something spooky going on. My possibly crackpot super close read of this remarkable ghost story: slate.com/culture/2022/12/ta…
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EXCLUSIVE: MUST CREDIT SLATE slate.com/culture/2022/12/em…
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this beautiful, frightening, funny record is 20 years old. sounds like it could have been recorded yesterday, or 100 years from now
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in 2021, may we all find the wisdom of bernie's mitten lady slate.com/human-interest/202…
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Happy 20th birthday to “Hush,” one of the scariest, funniest, most ingenious episodes of TV ever
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I haven't been able to stop thinking about the zip-tie guys. Not everyone in the Capitol was in it for the gram: slate.com/news-and-politics/…
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I wrote for @NewYorker about Lorraine Louie, an underappreciated graphic design pioneer who designed the iconic Vintage Contemporaries covers that I love so much. Thanks to Paula Scher, Peter Mendelsund, and Louie's family for talking to me newyorker.com/books/page-tur…
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Joker is dumb as a box of rocks slate.com/culture/2020/01/os…
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I interviewed my new hero, the Philly realtor who's selling the sex mansion in the face of some very angry neighbors slate.com/human-interest/201…
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I, and a bunch of other 48-year-olds, tried to explain what going out and staying in was like in the pre-smartphone, pre-Netflix era slate.com/human-interest/202…
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WONDER WOMAN 84 has many missed opportunities but the worst one is, finally a movie that would have benefited from nonstop '80s pop needle drops and instead they gave it a loud-ass hans zimmer score
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When I interviewed Lorrie Moore, I knew I had to ask her an important question that would surely never end up in the profile. Here was her answer. nytimes.com/2023/06/17/magaz…
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People in the New York Times say no babies should fly in first class. I say actually, slate.com/human-interest/202…
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This is the only good tweet thread nitter.app/davidehrlich/status/80…
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I'm absolutely telling my kids not to publish anything without checking with me first
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Proud to announce that in the year of our Lord 2018, at the age of 43, I have finally paid off my student loans. With five years to spare until I have to start taking out loans for my kids!!
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Bless these high school journalists who discovered their new principal was an unaccredited consultant-shyster kansascity.com/news/local/ar…
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read this. DO NOT look up anything about it. just read it. it's only like 1,200 words u can download it on instapaper and it'll read it to you in two minutes. do it right now i'm very extremely serious. slate.com/culture/2023/05/am…
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next time you think your opening might be too understated, think of the first line of this PR pitch I just got
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among Milton Glaser's bazillion iconic works were these beautiful designs for the original Broadway production of Angels in America
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Who's the one man you would bet your life on not having a horrible secret that will make you wish you'd never admired him? Mine's Jimmy Carter
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now muting this! the number of people dragging her, and not Insider, is disappointing
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There is literally no one who uses PBS more than a single parent
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The four humours -- blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile -- wax and wane in the body and make one choleric, melancholic, &cetera nitter.app/mattwhitlockPM/status/…
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L: Cleve Jones on Roy Cohn's square on the AIDS Memorial Quilt. R: The square. (Credit: Tony Kushner)
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Happy five-year anniversary to this correction, which I had to write in my first month editing at @Slate slate.com/articles/arts/tele…
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There is no more rewarding expression to see on your child's face than the look of horror when she walks into her classroom and realizes you're there for Career Day
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I think of this issue as a perfect piece of art of the sort I've experienced maybe 5, 6 times in my life nitter.app/davidmackau/status/103…
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"Teachers are the experts? Teachers have all the knowledge? Are you kidding me? I know lots of teachers that are very good, but to suggest they are the authorities, you’re on better drugs than me." slate.com/human-interest/202…
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Hi! Reminder that everyone who cheered Gawker's demise cheered for a future in which impt stories don't get pubbed washingtonpost.com/lifestyle…
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I wrote about the most rubbery face on TV, Saoirse-Monica Jackson's in DERRY GIRLS slate.com/culture/2019/02/de…
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This Lee Pace story is particularly moving in light of the long, hard road actors who play Joe have walked in the past 25+ years nytimes.com/2018/06/04/style…
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I'm sure all the other geniuses are great but for many, many years no one has deserved a MacArthur more than Lynda Barry. I wrote about her late-life shift into teaching "nonwriters" to "write the unthinkable" in 2011 nytimes.com/2011/10/30/magaz…
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I don't think I've ever read an essay that more clearly explains why we all feel so deranged all the time! slate.com/human-interest/202…
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new rule: no one gets to make a 3-hour epic until they direct a perfect 72-minute movie like PETITE MAMAN
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I'm not fancy enough to do a Book Jacket Reveal on like Good Morning America or anything BUT here is my book jacket, which I love. Pub date September 17!
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If You Drive a Giant Truck, You Are Declaring You’re Cool With Accidentally Killing a Stranger slate.com/business/2022/02/s…
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the last paragraph of Hilary Mantel's final book of short stories is an unusually frank admission of an author's shortcomings, the kind of thing no one else would ever think to write because they're not good enough
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More than 30 years ago, an entrepreneur called a designer in the middle of the night asking him to make a gadget handle anyone could use. I wrote about OXO and the power of the Good Grips handle: slate.com/business/2022/06/o…
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just casually shooting a person in the face nitter.app/heyydnae/status/126713…
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introduced the kids to A FISH CALLED WANDA last night and was reminded it contains the two greatest line readings in Cinema
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he looks like norm mcdonald nitter.app/molly_knight/status/14…
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One thing I've learned about fans of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is they love to tell you about stuff that happened on that show
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I tried to work out what feels different about how my teenagers think of friendship and how I did, 1,000 years ago. On smartphones, high school, Extreme, and good enough friends: slate.com/human-interest/202…
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Every day I wonder: Who are the people hiring publicists to send me emails about their new air purifier, their expert advice, their political opinions? So one day I decided to find out. slate.com/human-interest/202…
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I'm so happy that these characters who've been stuck in my head for years are finally making their way into the world. Can't wait for everyone to meet Emily, Emily, and Lucy. Thanks to @steinsarahj & @AliaHanna for making it happen.
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One thing I couldn't get into the Taika profile was a bit about the very cool tech used on the Valkyrie-Hela fight
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why the hell would you come this close to a palindrome and choke right at the end??? bamlanivinalmab, motherfuckers
BREAKING: Eli Lilly’s Covid-19 antibody therapy gets emergency FDA clearance, widening access to a treatment that early data show can keep some patients out of hospital. The drug is called bamlanivimab. trib.al/MkXImdn
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this is about the sweetest, funniest duet ever written piped.video/P8tTwXv4glY?t=99
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I wrote about Narcan in December. Now that it is available OTC I beg you to get a dose and keep it in your home slate.com/human-interest/202…
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nothing better than sitting with someone, you're both reading, you read something interesting, you decide whether it's worth the little chuckle that will make them look up and say "what?" so you can tell it to them nytimes.com/2021/09/24/well/…
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