The Life-Changing Power of a Book Review Before Algorithms

How The Washington Post’s now-defunct Book World transformed the careers of two giants of American literature.

Via NYT Books (gift link).

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/b...

So good. In another life, I once had to have a meeting with an editor and an author's agent because a book I was publicizing didn't make it on The Millions list. It was one of my final straws.

The Traitors is doing the Pulitzer system this year

every time I eat a pear I’m like wow this is just like the cover of The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

you live long enough to see imprints that you once worked for, the publisher retired, return anew a decade later

hey hey a l a, how many names will you mispronounce today

radical optimism by dua lipa; rational optimism by michael goldsmith

congratulations Jenn!

fry january. I’m having fries every day in January

put on your jcrew tissue turtleneck and start layering!!

Trying out a new cleanse where I shock myself with chlorine like you would a swimming pool

yet here i am again. so i post on, thoughts against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the timeline. or whatever.

after tweeting constantly from 2010 - 2022, it's been different to think dear, pretty, funny thoughts and keep them in my heart like little treasures; or write them in a little diary; or text them to my little big friends

big fan of saying "greetings." not just a seasonal word, you know.

Goodbye to All That, Twitter Edition I should have left ages ago, back when Twitter became X and when, in January of 2023, the end of Book Twitter was officially declared. But I stayed, even when the new owner laid off 80 percent of t…

I wrote my most trite, navel gaze-y column of the year. lithub.com/goodbye-to-a...

40404 my beloved

i had the best meal of my life at the Alna Store up there but it's like 1h45m drive, and the only other place I have starred on my map (other than Acadia) is the Walmart Superstore

The 'Wall Street Journal' Drops Its Bestseller Lists With this past weekend's edition, the 'Journal' has ended running weekly bestseller lists. The paper had carried a total of seven lists.

"... the company’s contract with Circana expired, “'and we are not renewing it.'”
Can the WSJ not afford a NPD Bookscan login anymore? Lol www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...