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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 29/08/2026

Heading to the playa like Paris Hilton and Mark Zuckerberg once did? Need a faux-fur coat or a secret stash pouch? The Burning Man Bazaar has you covered. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Where to Get Fire Outfits for Burning Man

Heading to the playa like Paris Hilton and Mark Zuckerberg once did? Need a faux-fur coat or a secret stash pouch? The Burning Man Bazaar has you covered.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 16/07/2026

“Now comes Christopher Nolan’s $250-million warship, slicing through the roiled and wine-dark sea of summer.” Read a poem about “The Odyssey” (2026) for New Yorker Humor. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/fCAt_f

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 16/07/2026

First came Homer’s Odyssey, then Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” and now a poem in honor of Nolan’s adaptation. www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...

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The Odyssey 3: IMAXimum Impact

First came Homer’s Odyssey, then Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” and now a poem in honor of Nolan’s adaptation.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 25/06/2026

Bodysculpting is of the past, looksmaxxing is the present, and vibeplundering is the future. Explore more buzzwords of tomorrow. www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...

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Tomorrow’s Trendy Words and Phrases

Bodysculpting is of the past, looksmaxxing is the present, and vibeplundering is the future. Explore more buzzwords of tomorrow.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 30/03/2026

The city’s Blue Highways distribution program aims to decrease truck emissions and road congestion while delivering your Sephora package. Its solution? Boats. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Signed, Sealed, Delivered—and Afloat

The city’s Blue Highways distribution program aims to decrease truck emissions and road congestion while delivering your Sephora package. Its solution? Boats.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 23/02/2026

On a visit to New York, Ian McKellen reflected on mortality and coming out, and unleashed an Elizabethan anti-ICE monologue on “Colbert” that went viral. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/-JX4Ef

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Ian McKellen Swings from Shakespeare to Gandalf to Virtual Reality

On a visit to New York, the actor reflected on mortality and coming out, and unleashed an Elizabethan anti-ICE monologue on “Colbert” that went viral.

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Henry Alford @henryalford.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Thanks for including me, Grub Street! The Grub Street Diet is the psychiatrist's couch of journalism.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 03/12/2025

Matthew Broderick and André De Shields have both undertaken Molière’s con-man character. They feel he has a few things in common with a certain orange President. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Tartuffe Times Two

Matthew Broderick and André De Shields have both undertaken Molière’s con-man character. They feel he has a few things in common with a certain orange President.

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Brattleboro Literary Festival @vtbookfest.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Welcome @henryalford.bsky.social to the 2025 Festival! His latest book, I Dream of Joni, was published in January. Events are FREE and open to the public. Join us in downtown Brattleboro, VT. October 17-19. #HenryAlford #nonfiction #biography #JoniMitchell #brattleboroliteraryfestival2025 #Vermont

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Maryana Bhak 박 @maryanabhak.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Happy 9/4/9/68

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Henry Alford @henryalford.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

The paperback of "I Dream of Joni," which comes out in January, is part of this 25% off promotion.

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M @marquesla.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Just read your book, "I Dream of Joni". The best book to date on the Great JM that I have read. Wonderful book, thank you !

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Henry Alford @henryalford.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

This is the only "news" story I ever "broke" www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...

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Not a Word

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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Ed Helms knows what’s up.

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Daniel Paisner @danielpaisner.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

"It’s a very calming experience. And when you’re calm you make better decisions.” - #MorganO'Hara, an 84-year-old conceptual artist who has written out the #Constitution, in full, on three occasions @henryalford.bsky.social @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Activism for Introverts! Copying the Constitution

Every month at the Old Stone House, in Brooklyn, citizens are invited to find consolation in troubled times by writing out the nation’s founding document, by hand.

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Henry Alford @henryalford.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

"My father was a great whistler and a great farter, and he could carry a tune from either end." Congratulations to colleague and former boss Graydon Carter on his wonderfully funny new memoir.

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Henry Alford @henryalford.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Alas, this monologue about the possible demise of "Sesame Street" that I published in 2017 is relevant again: "Sesame Street" has lost its deal with HBO, and Trump's cuts to USAID have stripped the show of a lot of grant money. Thinking of you, various pieces of felt!

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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 13/03/2025

Eggs now cost $15 a dozen and your retirement portfolio is down by 30%, but at least no one has to be ashamed about being racist anymore

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Henry Alford @henryalford.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

That we are more patient than we thought.

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Henry Alford @henryalford.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Concerned that my newly-enhanced parasocial relationship with Paul Mescal may start to distract me from my historically more vibrant parasocial relationship with Andrew Scott.

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Maryana Bhak 박 @maryanabhak.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

La mer, la mer 🩵💙🩵

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Henry Alford @henryalford.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I hope they put a dulcimer under each audience member's seat

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Raelle @jazchaz.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Hey Skywriters: If you're a fan of Joni Mitchell, do yourself a favor & pick of a copy of the now Oprah validated "I Dream of Joni" by Henry Alford. The prose alone will transport u to revisit various stages of your life & spend time w/Joni from the unique "Alfordian" perspective. A beautiful book.

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Henry Alford @henryalford.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

The idea that someone put one of Louise Bourgeois's slightly terrifying spider sculptures in their living room is almost as interesting to me as the fact that Bourgeois named one of her spider sculptures "Maman" (mother).

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Henry Alford @henryalford.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

RIP religious historian Martin E. Marty, who believed that napping is a form of prayer. (“My only worry,” he told me when I interviewed him for my book How to Live, “is that all my prayers will be answered, but I won’t know it because I’ll be asleep.”) www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

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Martin E. Marty, Influential Religious Historian, Dies at 97

A staunch champion of pluralism, he was described in Time magazine as “the most influential living interpreter of religion in the U.S.”

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Torea @toreajade.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Been reading Henry Alford’s “I Dream of Joni” (jonimitchell.com/library/view...) — and loving it. Her “Blue” is the soundtrack of my adolescence, we share a birthday, and she’s just everything. The book’s full of telling vignettes; what a queen. #booksky

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Joni Mitchell - I Dream of Joni - Book

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 27/02/2025

RFK at his confirmation hearing: “I am not anti-vaccine” After RFK confirmed as HHS head: - CDC flu vaccine campaign pulled - Childhood vaccine schedule reviewed - Federal funding to schools with COVID vaccine mandates withdrawn - Meeting to update flu vaccines cancelled

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Henry Alford @henryalford.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Yikes, now he's posing as a woman named Amy Gleason?

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Henry Alford @henryalford.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Thank you, Bookish (and Samantha Dunn and Sandra Tsing Loh) for having me on the show! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v5n...

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Bookish with Henry Alford, Nick Owchar and Brian Joseph

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Henry Alford @henryalford.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Huge congratulations to Susan Morrison, whose masterful new biography of Lorne Michaels is so insanely readable that the copy I bought was partially chewed.

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Henry Alford @henryalford.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Loved talking with the hilarious Rajiv Satyal.

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Jim Fusilli @jimfusilli.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

My guest on this episode of "Writers at Work" is @henryalford.bsky.social, whose “I Dream of Joni: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell in 53 Snapshots," presents the greatest artist to emerge from the '60s folk movement in a manner that told me I really don't know Joni at all. tinyurl.com/mrxr2pkj

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Podcast Episode · Writers at Work · 02/06/2025 · 33m

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