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Lili Loofbourow @lililoofbourow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Here's Ep 2 of Experts in a Dying Field, in which @zunguzungu.bsky.social, @patrickiber.bsky.social and I gab about the 100 Best TV Shows list and how shows age (my favorite example is Gen Z viewers marveling at how nice Walter White's house is. "He has a pool?!") www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCPd...

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The New York Times' 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st century | Experts in a Dying Field

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Lili Loofbourow @lililoofbourow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ICYMI, I wrote about literal and metaphorical nitpicking. (also "Tangled," microscopy, a 17-year-old girl who died of peritonitis in 1943, parenting, Robert Hooke, corpse brides, poker, dolls and bad moms) It's been a complicated week somepersonalnews.substack.com/p/nitpicking

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Lili Loofbourow @lililoofbourow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you get lice, you have to wait 9 days before you can apply a second dose of the poison and find out whether any new ones have hatched. This is my record of that nine-day window. somepersonalnews.substack.com/p/nitpicking

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Lili Loofbourow @lililoofbourow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We're still figuring this out. Someday the cinematography may rise above "blurry potato" But, podcasts being a new & underexplored genre, it seemed urgent to tackle the best adaptation of 2026--and it isn't close--Netflix's "Cien años de soledad" TAKE THAT, NOLAN www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLyj...

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Netflix's One Hundred Years of Solitude | Ep. 1 Experts in a Dying Field

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Lili Loofbourow @lililoofbourow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Two critics and a historian walk into a bar, drenched in obsolescence, to talk about pop culture, old internet drama and rabbitholes we've spent too much of our wild and precious lives burrowing down. Welcome to Experts in a Dying Field with me, @patrickiber.bsky.social and @zunguzungu.bsky.social

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Netflix's One Hundred Years of Solitude | Ep. 1 Experts in a Dying Field

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I wrote about whether Odysseus is a *dad* or a *father* — and why Christopher Nolan should just get a phone and not be such a turd about it. pjmaciak.substack.com/p/the-dadyssey

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The Dadyssey

Six Theses on Christopher Nolan’s Dad Issues

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Lili Loofbourow @lililoofbourow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Burned out on the Kavanaugh circus, I figured a graveyard in Patagonia would be the emptiest place on Earth to wallow in "political grief"? "Is that a thing? IS THE POLITICAL PERSONAL?" I scribbled on the plane, like a weirdo. Then some stuff happened. somepersonalnews.substack.com/p/a-bare-ass...

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Lili Loofbourow @lililoofbourow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One bright sunny morning in 2018, I rounded a corner to find an old woman pissing in front of a family grave. somepersonalnews.substack.com/p/a-bare-ass...

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A bare-assed communion of the heart

What this is and how I got here.

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Lili Loofbourow @lililoofbourow.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

hello! the day after yesterday seems like as good a time as any to introduce what I've been working on since getting laid off from the Washington Post (plus or minus a couple of decades). welcome to Some Personal News: confessions of an ex-pundit

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Lili Loofbourow @lililoofbourow.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

one day you look up and twenty-five years have zipped by since you started the thing. and you're different, and the world has thinned. and yet here we are. and here it all is. so here we go. some personal news: substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Muchos años después

We were all slightly different people 20 years ago.

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Lili Loofbourow @lililoofbourow.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

My ex-colleagues are doing incredible reporting under really tough conditions.

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Lili Loofbourow @lililoofbourow.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I'm trying to understand TikTok by eating chocolate chips out of a small blue ceramic cup I keep next to my desk, one at a time

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Lili Loofbourow @lililoofbourow.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I guess bureaucratic housekeeping always drifts toward the existential (today, while googling what to do re: a security retirement account so small it won't be permitted to continue existing as a "pension," I ran across a heated discussion of conversions vs. rollovers. it was poetry)

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Lili Loofbourow @lililoofbourow.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

some are bad. some are good. none are short (this new brevity-loving internet is a conundrum) most are forgotten this goddamn file with 560 PDFs is my personal ozymandias

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Lili Loofbourow @lililoofbourow.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

this spooked me being good for little else, and having developed an ear infection AS AN ADULT, I spent a few days compiling PDF copies of things I've published since 2016 the stuff I could access amounted to ~560 pieces I have several feelings about that the main one is: that is too many pieces

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Lili Loofbourow @lililoofbourow.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Getting laid off makes you grabby or perhaps clippy Last week a friend tried to read a piece I wrote years ago (may we all be blessed with such friends!) but found it paywalled. did I have a copy? I ... did not I don't have most of the things I've written oh no

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Lili Loofbourow @lililoofbourow.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

if I'm being honest, another thing (or two) might also be launching soon and by "soon," I mean earlier than it probably should depending on whether paralysis or impulsivity wins out

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Lili Loofbourow @lililoofbourow.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I've also thought "you know, May 1 sounds like a propitious time to finally start this Bluesky account" but then I got excited and overeager, so here we are

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Lili Loofbourow @lililoofbourow.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Being laid off with hundreds of WaPo colleagues sure does make a person think I've thought, for instance, it sure is lucky no one in charge over there puts ideology over free speech

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