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The Making of a Diagnostic Mind “To me, the concept of the master diagnostician is that you’re never good enough,” one doctor said.

She's not on Bluesky, but I will nonetheless share my EXCITEMENT for my friend Alexandra Sifferlin, whose book THE ELUSIVE BODY is out today, an excerpt of which you can read here

what to know about boy kibble the viral meal slop trend

Fears of ‘Cockroaches’ in the Private Credit Market

Cockroaches....the Wild West....a snowball going down a hill....horses whinnying in the corral....I wrote about Wall Street's colorful metaphors as anxieties about private credit spread, in my latest shop talk column for @nytimes.com !

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...

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What’s So Funny About Infinite Jest? by Lora Kelley February 23, 2026 – “Readers now seem eager to leave behind the book’s ‘litbro’ baggage and to engage with this complicated, pleasurable novel on its own terms.”

are people ready to be normal about infinite jest? for @parisreview.bsky.social, i investigate: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/02...

hyfr

On the Clock Lora Kelley reviews ‘The Copywriter,’ Daniel Poppick’s comic novel that searches for poetry in the workplace.

delighted to write about a funny, cerebral workplace novel for
Kismet Magazine!
kismet-mag.com/reviews/on-t...

ChatGPT Is a Fictional Character What makes OpenAI’s chatbot so dangerous? It’s a character without an author.

when chatgpt was new, ted chiang famously compared it to a blurry jpeg of everything on the internet. I wrote for @theatlantic.com about how that, these days, it’s more like a fictional character that people treat as real. ☠️ (gift link)

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Have You Hugged Your Job Today?

have you hugged your job today???

i wrote about the workers clinging to their jobs in a murky market for my latest shop talk column @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...

Fall Books: On Helen Garner’s The Season by Lora Kelley September 12, 2025 – “The book tracks the team over the course of seven months, as the boys brawl, lose, win, and physically grow.”

So glad to contribute to the Paris Review's wonderful fall books series with a piece on Helen Garner's footy memoir:

www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/09...

‘A Moment of Pleasant Indecision’ | Lora Kelley In the summer of 1957 a young woman named Shirley Kubik got a job attending to passengers on Trans World Airlines. After the company determined that she

"Porters were paid by the mile, getting their wages once they hit 11,000 each month. They regularly put in more than seventy hours a week, relying on tips to supplement their low pay."

@lorakelley.bsky.social @nybooks.com

www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Where Human Labor Meets ‘Digital Labor’

I am delighted to be back writing the Shop Talk column for the
@nytimes.com Business section!

For this week’s, I spoke with Marc Benioff and others about their (still largely speculative) vision for a bot colleague future, where AI is promoted to “digital labor.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...

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The Matter of Martin by Lora Kelley May 22, 2025 – “Salman Rushdie, who closed out the evening, recounted the cheeky word games they used to play; in one, they replaced the word Love in titles with the words Hysterical Sex, to get to ‘H...

I wrote about Martin Amis for @parisreview.bsky.social www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/05...

wow!

An Awkward Truth About American Work Direct-selling schemes are considered fringe businesses, but their values have bled into the national economy.

For @theatlantic.com, I wrote about a new book on multi-level marketing, and what this nominally fringey industry tells us about the rest of the economy: www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

delighted to be back in the Times Sunday Business section this weekend with a quick look at what the GDP does/doesn’t reveal about the wider economy

How Tariffs Could Make Americans’ Hobbies More Expensive As tariffs threaten the cost of synth knobs, wine corks, specialty butters and trading card sleeves, the stuff that makes American life fun may become out of reach.

As tariffs threaten the cost of synth knobs, wine corks, specialty butters and trading card sleeves, the stuff that makes American life fun may become out of reach.

For the NYT Sunday Business section, I wrote about how tariffs will reshape the world of hobbies:

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/b...

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thank you so much, john!!

@ atlantic friends: thank you!!!!!! @ editors: let’s work together! I am keen to write features and essays about books, business, tech, consumerism, work, LIFE! Hit my line: kelleylora@gmail.com

I have some news: Today is my last day @theatlantic.com ! After two epic years and 200 newsletters, I am going to freelance!! Very excited for projects ahead but will miss my wonderful colleagues so much. So grateful for all I learned here!!!!!

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Donald Trump, Tesla Salesman In promoting Elon Musk’s car company, Donald Trump showed just how far he’ll go for his allies.

I wrote about the posting that electric-car supporters should “ROT IN HELL” to showcasing Teslas on the White House lawn pipeline for @theatlantic.com:

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...