You're kidding w that headline, right, @nytimes.com? Up until abt a year ago, the Times wdn't have even green-lit this piece. Also, the "hit" framing shows just how debased literary discussion has become. Maclean would laff.
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My god Kemp is useless #phillies
I reviewed Robert Polito's exhilarating new book about latterday Bob Dylan music on today's @nprfreshair.bsky.social . You can listen to the piece here: www.npr.org/2026/04/09/n...
Watched Crime 101 last night: Heat with a maundering meathead as Neil McCauley and Fozzie Bear as Vincent Hanna. Was Halle Berry’s I-quit speech supposed to rouse a cheer? The way the movie treats her, her character seems unaware that in Our Current Era, no boss ever feels shame.
That's Pete Bonventre, dapper ex-SI, who was one of EW's 3,782 "executive editor"s.
I could barely get a word in edgewise.
Thanks for posting this Joe. Boy, that was some synergy, EW & CNN. Also, taping in a 57th St magazine store after hours: brilliant, eh?
Wonderful @mikebarnes4.bsky.social @thr.com obit of Matt Clark, who'll maybe get a second of air time at next year's Oscar In Memorium www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
RIP Tom Noonan. In 2009 I convinced the @nytimes.com to let me interview him about his tiny role in Damages because he was so great. He was really smart, funny, & severe: www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/a...
RIP James Van Der Beek. In my 1998 @EW Dawson review I wrote "[He] has handsome features attached to a face shaped like a cereal box." Years later, he told me he was "haunted" by that, & had a good laugh. ew.com/article/1998...
It's the idiocy combined with arrogant condescension... imagine having to put up with this kind of crap.
RIP Raul Malo. What a voice. Just call up “What a Crying Shame” in your phone right now and listen.
Copyediting, a lost art. "He often wrote under the pen name 'William Boot,' a self-deprecating homage to Evelyn Waugh’s supercilious journalist in her 1938 novel, Scoop." That Waugh, whatta dame...
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Today on @nprfreshair.bsky.social I’m reviewing the new 50th anniversary release of Patti Smith’s debut Horses followed by excerpts from Terry’s interviews w Smith over the years. Give a listen
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So we’ve now reached the point where we dread having Harper come up to bat at a critical moment. #phillies
Someone said it's Bryan Ferry's birthday www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBrj...
Finally got around to The Lowdown, a show that's pret-ty pleased w itself. Gotta say it was odd to make Joe Brainard a plot point but use his least-typical piece of art (if it even was?), but then have a C Comics cover in a later background. I guess I'm not cool enuf to "dig" it.
Well, what a pure pleasure this is.
Exactly.
I think I can hit the hay. It’s not going to get better than Katherine LaNasa and Jeff Hiller. #emmys
A Paul biopic w a script by Jonathan Lethem wd be far preferable to this Sad Boss thing.
I love Vince Gill but I’d much rather have seen a 3 minute clip of Teri Garr on Letterman #emmys
I hear Hannah Einbinder as Christgau landed on the cutting room floor.
I cannot imagine how funny Bruce and Jon Landau must find the fact that they’re being played by the 2 most pretentious actors in America in that sad looking movie.
I never want to hear Seth Rogan talk again #emmys
youtube.com/watch?v=c5v4... oh good: still no reason to subscribe to Peacock
Lotta stupid Emmy noms announced this morning (so many for the mildly amusing The Studio?) but at least Katherine LaNasa, central to the pleasures of The Pitt, got nominated.
Illiterate lit musing ("much of the architecture of book discovery is informally targeted at women"). Gee, maybe men (& women!) wd read good books if they were taught literature in school instead of "getting recommendations online from celebrities and influencers." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/b... Hilarious: the closure “came as a shock.” Because we all know what a venerable publishing house TikTok is.
Fellow Mouseketeers: Allow me to mention that my review of Sam Tanenhaus's mammoth biography of Wm F. Buckley Jr. will appear in this weekend's edition of Air Mail, the newsletter magazine that deftly massages the mind.