I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

FIGHT WEEK | Laura van den Berg | Substack FIGHT WEEK is an every-other-week newsletter on writing & fighting. Click to read FIGHT WEEK, by Laura van den Berg, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Loved chatting with @lauravandenberg.bsky.social for her wonderful Fight Week substack. We talked about boxing gym culture, what boxing taught me about writing & more. 🥊

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Very sad that the aurora borealis continue to dazzle wherever I am not!

I had not! Cool

You drove me to finally look up this song, which my Irish-Cath immigrant mom (born in London during WWII to an Irish woman raised in Belfast in the 30s) used to sing it all the time. (Sorry for that sentence.) I didn’t know the history: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes!_We...

Love this idea! 🥳

I’m loving those printed, quilted-cotton, diaper-bag jackets women are wearing, they are very fresh and cute!

I loved the Jeff Buckley documentary and especially the way director Amy Berg told the story through the eyes the women closest to him. A shot of his bookshelves included SELECTED POEMS OF ANNE SEXTON and Jeanette Winterson’s WRITTEN ON THE BODY.

It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley Review: The Man, Not the Myth With her new documentary, director and producer Amy Berg presents the late Jeff Buckley as a bottomless vessel for creativity—and rejects the idea that he was fated for a tragic end.

It’s Never Over has no interest in painting Jeff Buckley as a doomed, tragic figure, but as an artist who somehow foresaw his brief life—and devoured the world, while he could

Haven’t rushed to the phone in 20+ years

One of my favorite lines in Jeff Buckley's music is this one—with a kind of obsolete urgency—in "Last Goodbye," and the way he sings it: Did you rush to the phone to call

I'm going to see the Jeff Buckley doc tonight at Angelika and can't stop thinking about the late 90s and how everyone seemed to have a connection to him. Such an enigma.

Oopsie accidental four-month break from here but I'm coming back.

As we all open our phones on the boat back to the mainland

Congratulations!

Contacted my legislators to urge restored funding for #Fulbright & #CriticalLanguageScholarship (CLS) programs. I reunited with my first mother while on a Fulbright grant in 2010 and met her again after supervising the CLS Korea program in 2016. My life literally would not be the same without them.

Spring Craft Intensive: Julie Buntin - Tin House This generative class is all about beginnings - how good ones work, and how to take the first step into a new piece. Many of the maxims about beginnings revolve around the same idea: a beginning is…

This generative class focuses on the art of beginnings and how to take those crucial first steps into a new piece. Writers will leave with fresh ideas, new pages, and practical strategies for both starting strong and sustaining momentum. Sign up today!

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The University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertainty A spokesperson for the University told WESA Friday that the school has "temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission," while Pitt works to understand how proposed federal funding cuts could...

Pitt to pause PhD admissions, following Vanderbilt and USC, because of uncertainty of NIH funding to academic universities.

Who will teach and train US scientists for pharma and biotech? Should we import them from countries that do?

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You were so good! 🎊

I’m upstate ny and omg the snow won’t stop! Earlier today, it rained.

Visiting Writers Series | Butler University

Do I have friends (friends of friends?) in Indianapolis? I’ll be reading at Butler tomorrow, free and open to the public 💗 www.butler.edu/arts-science...

Skinhead They call me skinhead, and I got my own beauty. It is knife-scrawled across my back in sore, jagged letters, it’s in the way my eyes snap away from the obvious. I sit in my dim matchbox, on the edge o...

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Patricia Smith Skinhead YouTube video by urbanrenewalprogram

Wow. Watch Patricia Smith perform her poem, SKINHEAD, published in Agni in 1992 and still feels urgent today. Poet Shira Erlichman mentioned the poem in her lecture during the Tin House workshop over the weekend. Before Kendrick Lamar's resounding halftime statement. #THWW

My Wife’s Enemies Are Now My Enemies, Too No one tells you about the other in-laws you acquire when you get married.

I am so lucky to be loved like this, and I hope one day Taylor finds that kind of love too. @joshgondelman.bsky.social www.thecut.com/2019/12/my-w...

All of us girls in 2003 wore our jeans like Kendrick’s last night, is that coming back

‘Anora’ Wins Big at Producers and Directors Guild Awards The film that takes those two major industry prizes almost always goes on to win the best-picture Oscar.

Is that me lightly chuckling that a film about a charming queens stripper beat out the very epic lone genius of The Brutalist? Yes. Yes it is.
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Wow you all got together quickly! V impressive. Hi!

Toss a tentacle my way 🤕 🫠