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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Correct.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2026

COYOTE VS ACME is legitimately great

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Gabriel Roth @gabrielroth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It’s probably impossible to explain this to anyone who wasn’t around at the time but I still get chills from looking at this, what an absolutely heroic cultural achievement

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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Also a good time to revisit @elliottholt.bsky.social's practice of picking one poem and reading it every day for a month: www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/m... [gift link]

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My Secret Weapon Against the Attention Economy (Gift Article)

When you reread the same poem over and over again, you stop scrolling along the surface and dive deep beneath it.

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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Feels like an appropriate time to re-up this 2009 essay by Jim Holt on "The Case for Memorizing Poetry." #poetry #BookSky 📚https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/books/review/Holt-t.html?unlocked_article_code=1.91A.09Mb.AMDt4jLIZ2bo&smid=url-share [gift link]

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Got Poetry? (Gift Article)

Memorizing poetry in this day and age may seem eccentric, not to say masochistic. I recommend it anyway.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Since I occasionally post great negative reviews I will repost this amazing rave for a new novel by Marlon James. Particularly appreciate Garner’s ability to get across how filthy the novel is without using any of the words it does. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/b...

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Book Review: ‘The Disappearers,’ by Marlon James (Gift Article)

Marlon James’s story of gay experience and murderous homophobia in Jamaica is a maximalist’s banquet — and the Booker Prize winner’s finest book yet.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

(1/2) Since I haven't seen anyone else mention this one... It was an open secret that Dolly Parton secretly funded a massive number of southern high school bands, most especially predominantly Black high schools. A marching band member in her youth, Dolly never forgot the joy that playing snare drum

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 22/08/2026

Lydia Davis will the give the second annual 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 Autumn Lecture, titled ’Dying, or Doing Something Else: Reflections on Marcus Aurelius and Other Stoics’, on 28 October at the New School, New York City. Details and tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/londo...

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Book tickets – The 2026 LRB Autumn Lecture in NYC: Lydia Davis on Marcus Aurelius – The Tishman Auditorium at the New School

The 2026 LRB Autumn Lecture in NYC: Lydia Davis on Marcus Aurelius – The Tishman Auditorium at the New School, Wed 28 Oct 2026 - Dying, or Doing Something Else: Reflections on Marcus Aurelius and Othe...

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I found it. 2015, much more recent than I remembered. And it wasn't the author of the profile who asked her about it, it was the novelist Michael Cunningham! @elliottholt.bsky.social

The novelist Michael Cunningham remembers going out for a coffee with Moore, who had starred in the
2002 Stephen Daldry movie based on his novel "The Hours." As they stepped outside, he noticed that she changed. "You just did something, didn't you?" he asked.
"She said, 'No.' I said, 'You retracted your beauty, didn't you?' She said, 'Oh, yeah, kind of, " Cunningham said. "She pulled something in. There was a glow that shed emanated in the living room that she could retract in the street."

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Julian Lucas @jcljules.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Trump accuses the Smithsonian of such heinous crimes as neglecting Flag Day, exhibiting foreign bird feathers, and impugning the honor of Mickey Mouse. What’s the truth? I joined four retired ladies from Citizen Historians to investigate www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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Is the Smithsonian Really Trying to Destroy America?

Trump claims that the Smithsonian has fallen into the hands of Marxist radicals. A stroll through the exhibitions suggests otherwise.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 12/08/2026

syzygy | noun | the nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies (such as the sun, moon, and earth during a solar or lunar eclipse) in a gravitational system

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.

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Elliott Holt @elliottholt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I also hated Nolan’s Odyssey, for many of the reasons Emily Wilson mentioned. I love film and have no problem with adapting stories to fit the medium but Nolan’s leaden script and the film’s lack of moral ambiguity bored me.

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Uh, did Emily Wilson's Odyssey takedown crash the @lrb.co.uk website?

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"Riley has a formidable talent...for rendering the way a person's particular compound of vanities, insecurities, and sadism is revealed through speech." Damn straight. Hermione Hoby on Gwendoline Riley in @bookforum.bsky.social

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Grammar of Discontent

Gwendoline Riley breaks free of her phantoms – Hermione Hoby

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 24/07/2026

The NYRB Author’s Closet, a series of videos of the least camera-ready people in society mumbling inaudibly about Vasily Grossman.

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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Scribner Books @scribnerbooks.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Mark your calendars for 8/4/26 ✨ Etna by Paul Yoon is a breathtaking new work of fiction from the celebrated author of Snow Hunters and Run Me to Earth: bit.ly/4nHXGNq

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Scribner Books @scribnerbooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

ETNA by Paul Yoon is a #1 August Indie Next Pick for July! Congratulations, Paul, and thank you to booksellers everywhere for your incredible support. Preorder the paperback from your local indie today: bit.ly/4nHXGNq

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Elliott Holt @elliottholt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Tonight! Hope to see you there.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 22/07/2026

I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul, that presently They have proclaim’d their malefactions

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Elliott Holt @elliottholt.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This captures my feelings about this film.

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Hamilton Cain @hamiltoncain.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Set in the High Sierra before and during the California Gold Rush, Josh Weil's gorgeous new novel, "What Came West," offers a fresh twist on Manifest Destiny. Out today from @doubledaybooks.bsky.social. Here's my review for @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/b...

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Go West, Young Neurodivergent Man

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 19/07/2026

Yea, dost thou jeer

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 19/07/2026

Spain are the world champions after a deserved 1-0 victory over an Argentina team who barely mustered a shot

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Spain win the World Cup after Ferran Torres dethrones 10-man Argentina in extra time

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

the pain for Spain is mainly on the wane

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Elliott Holt @elliottholt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Finally! What a beautiful goal. 🇪🇸

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Elliott Holt @elliottholt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I didn’t get into watching ⚽️ until the 1998 World Cup and I remember where I watched every final since then.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 17/07/2026

‘Odyssey’ comes from the name Odysseus. The first known use of ‘odyssey’ as a generic term for “journey” was in Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Kidnapped” in 1886.

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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

also true of editors

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 18/07/2026

To France, to France, and get what you have lost!

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Elliott Holt @elliottholt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Yesterday’s third place game was so much fun to watch that I am already mourning the end of the World Cup.

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Elliott Holt @elliottholt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

NYC friends: I’d love to see you at McNally Jackson Seaport on 7/23 when I’ll be talking to Josh Weil about his extraordinary new novel WHAT CAME WEST: mcnallyjackson.com/event/2026-0...

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Josh Weil & Elliott Holt

McNally Jackson is an independent bookstore with five New York locations.

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Elliott Holt @elliottholt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I have no objection to Nolan’s casting in “The Odyssey,” but I found the film ponderous. Visually magnificent but the script is clunky & tedious. I don’t blame Matt Damon—the script is the problem—but his O is not a trickster or “complicated man,” to quote Emily Wilson’s translation. I was bored.

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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

was very touched and surprised to learn I had won this year’s Gabe Hudson Prize for Will There Ever Be Another You. my deepest thanks to Gabe’s mother Sanchia Semere and McSweeneys

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Patricia Lockwood wins $10,000 Gabe Hudson Prize for a dark, comic COVID-19 novel

Patricia Lockwood wins this year's Gabe Hudson Prize for her novel “Will There Ever Be Another You.”

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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Somehow despite its gargantuan scale, 75-foot-high IMAX image, $250 million budget & stacked cast of A-list stars, Christopher Nolan's Odyssey feels like his most personal project...& maybe, w/ the proviso that I've never been a huge Nolan-head, my favorite movie he's made? slate.com/culture/2026...