President, Extremely Normal Brain-Wise: Pope Weak on Crime, Also I’m Dr. Jesus Christ

A+ headline.

defector.com/president-ex...

A black and white sticker depicting Luigi Mangione hung on a fridge with a magnet shaped like a heart that says Venezia

Someone printed me a sticker of a photo of luigi mangione a while back and i left it on my counter and my housekeeper hung it on my fridge bc she thought he was my boyfriend

This is so good.

I know that the note-taking is a way of deep reading, but man it takes *so much time.*

One of these days, I will work out how to write a book review without taking 36 pages of notes, but that day is not today, apparently.

Must be weird going to CVS after you just went to the Moon

A starfield filled with thousands of stars and shining clouds of dust. The Milky Way\u2019s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms, about halfway from the center. Credit: NASA

OH. MY. GOD.

THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

"To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what is written down. Man was fortunate to have invented the book. Without it the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would be naked on earth." —James Salter

My Bad A powerful and hilarious personal history that tells the true story of the queer ’90s and how it transformed queer life in the decades that followed.“Dee...

THIS IS NOT AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE!

Now that I have your attention: my new book, MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER 90S AND BEYOND, comes out in just under two months (May 26th). I love the book, but... www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hugh-...

Babe

Have you read Katherine Rundell's "Super-Infinite," about Donne? Really wonderful and approachable book about him. Your daughter might dig it (and you too).

She has good taste! (And good cursive.)

World's oldest known land animal, Jonathan the tortoise, still alive at nearly 200 Jonathan the tortoise, the world's longest-living known land animal, remains alive despite claims of his death spreading on social media.

Jonathan is alive! www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...

The Profession That Does Not Exist | Baffler Symposium A partial history of the hidden labor that makes possible the poems, stories, essays, and books you read.

This is excellent, and vital reading to any writer trying to make it all work.

Jonathan, the world's oldest tortoise, has died at 193 years old

He was gay and lived through two world wars and 40 US presidents

Gorsuch follows up: "Do you think Native Americans today are birthright citizens under your test?" SG says no. Gorsuch responds that because his test is domicile of the parents, so why not? Wouldn't tribal Indians domiciled in the US be birthright citizens?

The SG SAYS YES, THEY PROBABLY WOULD BE.

Lol, oh boy, the stories I have about how my UK publisher insisted I could not use the word "pilgrimage" in my recent bio subtitle, because it wouldn't fly in Britain. "Sounds too religious."

x is populated by people who failed 11th-grade english, drove three startups into the ground, make mid-six-figures, and own two cybertrucks. bluesky is full of folks who hold two phds, have won prestigious awards in their field, can't quite consolidate their hold on fulltime work, and ride a bicycle

"whose sole purpose is to be summarized." I actually walked out of a lunch on the weekend with a friend who kept insisting to me, in defense of AI, that this is all writing really is; that there is nothing important lost by AI summaries.

Touché.

Picked this up for my husband (giant Star Wars nut) for Christmas, and it is now a permanent fixture on his bedside table.

(I mourn, yet again, the death of WaPo's Book World.)

New York Times Cuts Ties With Book Review Writer Over AI Use | Exclusive The New York Times has cut ties with a freelancer of his reliance on AI.

Career death, not only as a critic but also as a novelist. (Why would I trust he didn't use AI to produce "A Stranger in Corfu"?) Also yet another indictment of the NYTimes Book Review, which is pretty abysmal these days in terms of both quality and general literary taste.

Makes you wonder about the guy's new novel.

One cent.

Claim Form Anthropic Copyright Settlement

FELLOW AUTHORS: the deadline to file a claim in the Anthropic settlement for stealing all our work is MONDAY. The settlement provides for $3000 per work.

GO GET YOUR MONEY.

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I carried this beast of a book from Australia to the US as hand luggage, in my lap, because I refuse to live without it.

Ohhh buying this immediately.

Last time I'll repost. It was an incredibly fast turnaround from assignment to editing to publication but enough time to get in a few lines about the long history of ATC understaffing.

I wish I could do the same for inspectors, techs, a/c certification, etc.

But I was pleased to get this chance.

I really like this post because it implies that Neil Armstrong is a damn coward for leaving the moon instead of staying there