honestly Micah I am happy as long as the writing is going for you, we'll figure the rest out later!!

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As someone whose life is in culture, this one is obviously close to home. Talking about book ideas with @chaykak.bsky.social is one of the truest pleasures of my agenting life, and this is an unbelievably beautiful proposal and project. And there isn't a more perfect editor for it than Thomas.

Couldn't be more excited to share @chaykak.bsky.social's next book, which asks what role our most piercing, powerful encounters with culture and beauty play in making us who we are, explores how we seek more of them, and looks at what we lose in a world where those experiences are increasingly rare

Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

Happiest of publication days to this utterly singular, extremely good novel. An adventure story, an exploration of the rotten heart of the American frontier myth, a tender meditation on male friendship and making a family, and a truly freaky novel about alchemy and hunting a giant salamander.

a particular pleasure to be involved with this one as a member of the KYE/Sam fan club-- I am a huge admirer of the intellectual expansiveness, moral depth, electric prose and startling humor of his writing/thinking, and can't wait to experience that at book length on a perfect topic

ripping down a whole wing of the White House just feels a little TOO on the nose if I'm being honest

I am amazed I get to do this for a living sometimes

hard to convey how fucking cool it is to edit a really good writer, especially over the course of years/multiple projects: it's this conversation you're in with a mind that gets deeper and deeper, and still you're occasionally surprised by what comes out when you push them, where they can reach

THE GREAT WORK | Kirkus Reviews A shy young man joins his eccentric uncle on a wild hunt to kill a dragon and raise the dead.

The Great Work got a starred review from Kirkus 🥲

"Whether Gentle is a visionary or a drunk, whether the salamander is a creature of flesh or a shared delusion, and ultimately, the meaning of the mission is as much about human frailty and grace as the nightmares that stalk the page."

I also keep my pens in a case in the same spot in my bag and that's helped, too!

I think umbrellas are fundamentally tricky since they don't get put inside a bag or other carrier-- they really beg to be left

I'll show my hand as a fountain pen girl here, but my extremely enabling opinion is that you just have to buy more expensive pens so you'll be more careful with them ;)

ok here's my nyc policy idea: create the post of Chief Weirdo. The job goes to an iconic freak whose job it is to maintain our world-leading weirdo levels. Curtis Sliwa can be the inaugural officeholder

I’m not certain I agree with Sliwa on virtually anything but I do have to respect how much he seems to hate Cuomo

The Prime Minister Who Tried to Have a Life Outside the Office As the thirtysomething leader of Finland, Sanna Marin pursued an ambitious policy agenda. The press focussed on her nights out and how she paid for breakfast.

Can world leaders have work-life balance? I traveled to Helsinki over the summer to find out. For this week's issue, I profiled Sanna Marin, the former "party girl" prime minister of Finland.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

happy shared anniversary!! (still grateful we had a day free of rain ha)

this was pretty wild, honestly! required a serious insiders view on the industry and what's going on; extremely curious about who it actually is

wow nothing like someone impersonating an editor fishing for a novel you have on sub to make you feel alive, I’m flattered Filippo 🥲

On the contrary this person has just been anointed and is now the pope, I'm hearing.

Such an honor to work on this one, on so many levels-- it's a special project, and going to be a beautiful, incredibly thoughtful book.

sitting in the coffee shop in the lobby of one of NYC's major publishers with the agency submissions tracking doc open.......... living dangerously...........

"oh man, I think things are about to get really bad" a thought I have had approximately 123,342 times in 2025 so far

once again reckoning with the fact that I may never in my life encounter another piece of writing I consider quite as perfect as this poem www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47553/...

everything is so stupid all the time

yeah I will say this was a distinctly "I spend too much time indoors and on the computer" mullet look which contributed to the alarm

that's good to know! obviously one sees a person reading on the subject publicly and feels a little, uh... uneasy

sat across the subway this morning from a man with a long mullet reading ACCELERATE: The Accelerationist Reader, hard yikes

I love clicking on this and finding it's a Holden joint :)