I think there’s a pretty stark demarcation before Bridget Jones’ Diary and after.

Probably had a close friend pull it aside and be like, “We love how smart you are and we love playing your game, but *dude* you gotta stop being such an asshole about it.“

These are the sorts of managers who make everyone come into the office for performative collaboration and productivity without having a clue how to actually lead.

Can‘t wait to see what kind of pun @davewhite.bsky.social extracts from this.

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Barnes & Nobel is having a preorder sale right now, including my next novel A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE. So take some of that money you saved from the Criterion flash sale and buy yourself some Literature™️

Detroit to Orlando.

I‘ve heard all the stories about film students not liking long movies or old movies, but my 17 year old is in a high school video production class and the teacher has been showing them older movies like this one, Casablanca, and the original Oceans 11 and they LOVE them.

Always nice to jump on LinkedIn demoralized about the job search and see a video from the company that laid me off crowing about their nearly $1 billion profit last year.

There’s also a French one from 2013 out there somewhere you’d probably have to randomly luck into discovering.

I love the 2022 version with Will Poulter. It was a highlight of my recent Christie binge.

We need more publishers between the under-funded, under-resourced micro presses run by people with tons of passion and zero business sense and the major presses run by conglomerates with too much business sense and zero passion. I’ve been a part of a couple operations that tried, but it’s hard.

This weather definitely doesn’t feel like the beginning of ever single disaster movie ever. Not at all.

I bought Nat a Hello Kitty one like that.

The meta-fiction junkie in me would love to see her publish that 40 page memo herself as a companion to the biography.

This feels representative of a lot of the problems with the larger media today. They want the freedom and respect that comes with being an objective journalist, but they also want the access and feel good appreciation that comes with being an insider. They ultimately end up betraying both sides.

Can’t wait to get my copy of The Irish Goodbye. That purple is going to pop next to the green of Heating and Cooling.

Me too. I think there’s an element where we want to feel like that even at our worst we’re still redeemable. I mean, at least we’re not a professional killer.

Hard. Same. Most of my therapy these days is figuring out how to let that gooey emotional blob inside me run free while still protecting it enough to avoid catastrophic heartbreak. Again.

Dammit. That was supposed to be a secret.

This is the only thing giving me hope. They can’t help themselves and they’re just going to continue shooting themselves in the foot as much as they can. The hope is Democrats manage to shoot themselves slightly fewer times.

a group of people are sitting in a blue car and smiling . ALT: a group of people are sitting in a blue car and smiling .

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The worst part is those “headwinds and uncertainty“ are almost entirely self inflicted and didn’t need to happen.

“The US economy has LOST jobs since April 2025. Total job gains since from May 2025 to February 2026 are now -19,000,” Navy Federal chief economist Heather Long wrote. “Companies are not hiring in the face of all of these headwinds and uncertainty. And even healthcare is starting to slow down.”

Yes! And plays and poetry and comic books. Also look at art and listen to music and see live theater And puppet shows and drag shows. Experience all of the arts and let yourself be immersed and inspired.

This is especially true with breaking news and local tragedies or events that become national news. Its rarely the NYT or WaPo that get it right and quickly, it’s the beat reporters from metro papers that do it and they don’t really have the same potential newsletter audiences.

This requires a longer bit of writing to really explore, but in our society we talk about “the dignity of work”, and that’s a mistake. People, I think, don’t emotionally crave *work*, they crave to *make*. To make a change in the working some individually pleasing way, physical, emotional, social.

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Front cover of the Edith Grossman translation of Don Quixote.

This is my favorite novel of all time and really explains so much about who I am. I ordered a replacement copy and just popped quickly into the prologue, which is such a brilliant and hilarious takedown of the pomposity of authors that could easily be published in McSweeny’s today and be relevant.

How the Story Goes by Andrew Forrester.

Despite life being a bit of a shitshow lately, I’ve been on an epic reading streak and this is one of the best. It’s got a very Emily Henry/ Matthew Norman vibe. It’s not a thriller but has fantastic pacing that reminds me of Peter Swanson. Thanks to @harpercollins.bsky.social for the early read.

This looks amazing. Also, just requested it from Netgalley (hint hint).