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Max C. @maxisherealso.bsky.social · 6h

Cancel your subs for all these corpo streamers and pay instead for Criterion Channel, MUBI, Eternal Family and Klassiki

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 6h

Class and capital are at the root of everything. 'Twas ever thus. Looks like an essential read.

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 6h

Discover how nature’s mental health strategies can inspire healthier, more adaptive human minds in Kelly Lambert's new book, Wild Brains: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Well—out now! Learn more: buff.ly/rdli2Wb 5 January UK pub. #Neuroscience #Animals #Nature #MentalHealth

Wild Brains: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Well by Kelly Lambert, illustrated by Javier Lazaro

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I still marvel every year that Dr. No and Love Me Do came out on this same day back in 1962. If you're interested in more Bond/Beatles touch points, this book is worth a look: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Love-a...

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Love and Let Die

A deep-dive into the unique connections between the two titans of the British cultural psyche—the Beatles and the Bond films—and what they tell us ...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Early voting is already underway in some states. From now until Nov 3, I urge you all to... 1) Help get out the vote 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism We are the only ones who can end this nightmare.

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Use to live for the Fall Preview issue.

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Classic William Goldman! The book is entirely readable, as well ...

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I had to sleep on the floor of my parents' bedroom for about four months after I saw this ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDi...

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Bigfoot Man or Beast - The Original Classic Full Documentary

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am a PEN America member and a Jew, and this is an essential read.

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cornell should lose accreditation. It should be shuttered. Students should transfer out. I know that's a scorched earth approach but that is what will be needed if anything is to ever change.

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

She also says 60 percent of these debuts don't write a second book ...

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Cruelty and incompetence. The American Right, in a nutshell.

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Drunk with pleasure! Never felt that before.

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Very kind. These two are night and day. Could not be more different!

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A draft is born! 104K words, 445 pages. My biggest book to date, and my favorite. I have never had so much fun writing a novel in all my life. Rough, of course, but into the drawer until my November residency in Scotland, when the real work begins. Today we celebrate.

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Returning to teaching in January and looking to refresh my Novel 2 syllabus. I structure the whole course around a single book. Here are the finalists, help me choose!

8 novels in a vertical stack. Includes Baldwin, Ferrante and Nunez.

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Returning to teaching in January and looking to refresh my Novel 2 syllabus. I structure the whole course around a single book. Here are the finalists, help me choose!

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@amitava.bsky.social has the crowd eating out of his witty hands at the 2026 SALA Festival in Atherton. Great talk with Manil Suri and Vikram Chandra.

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A stupid and hateful column from the bedbug. What are the odds?

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Two hours ago, I hadn't a clue in all the world that Ari Emanuel had written a memoir, and now, six chapters in, I cannot set it aside ...

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Good news: a federal judge just paused Wilber's deportation. The government shouldn’t be allowed to shoot you from an unmarked vehicle and then cover it up by deporting you. Keep speaking out, it's working.

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Happy paperback pub day to Marisa Silver! If you missed this one, I urge you to catch it now. Funny, wise, moving. A book for grown ups. 🥂👏🏻

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

San Frans Opera demanded a 5-year wage freeze for its musicians while the General Director's salary jumped from $424k to $729k. 30 minutes before opening night, the orchestra packed up and walked out to join the picket line for the first strike in the opera’s 100 year history.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"The disappeared*" was a term for those the military dictatorship in Argentina imprisoned/tortured/murdered during the dirty war. *"detenidos-desaparecidos" (detained-disappeared)

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Absolutely terrifying. Not if, but when.

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just barely more than a quarter way into the century, the New York Times is proclaiming the one hundred best shows of the century? Embarrassing, idiotic clickbait. I no longer recognize the Times.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want.

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I just can't quite with the whole "Yeah, no" construction. It's weird, innit?

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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Lynda Carter @lyndacarter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Our music and our memories are being wiped out. AMERICA built this city. Not a president. Join us!

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You know how funny this is? This is "I don't give a rat's ass about sports OR podcasts and I am still laughing my ass off" funny ...

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Berger & Berger, occasional series pairing John Berger quotes with my dog Berger. JB: The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Berger:

Berger & Berger, occasional series pairing John Berger quotes with pictures of my dog Berger.

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Berger & Berger: “The precondition for thinking politically on a global scale is to see the unity of the unnecessary suffering taking place.”

My dog Berger paired with a quote from his namesake, John Berger.

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A hot take I agree with. Jagger's hacky on-the-nose lyric embarrasses me every time I hear it ...

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ordered a major appliance without checking the hookups because I was sure I knew. Reader, I was wrong.

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John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Annie Dillard, John Updike, and Larry McMurtry at a public Q&A session in 1983. Dillard and Wendell Berry leaving us so close together is as good a reminder as any to get outside, which I’m going to do now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vX7...

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John Updike, Annie Dillard, and Larry McMurtry at the University of Richmond, 1983

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

An absolute giant. What a sad day this is.

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Do your best to maintain the streak!

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oh lord, I remember reading this as a dumb teen when it came out and, even then, could see what a turgid pile it was. He was a hack though he had (as many hacks do) a gift for the hook. Wild ideas, embarrassing execution.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sending a message to your current audience that you'd prefer to have a different audience results in losing the former without gaining the latter. www.thewrap.com/creative-con...

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Refurbished ‘60 Minutes’ Debuts to a 19% Ratings Drop

The “60 Minutes” Season 59 premiere drew 7.7 million viewers, down 19% year over year.

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Chacun à son goût and all, but The Diplomat was one of the most consistently stupid shows I can recall ever having sat through, and yet all this nomination love. Bewildering.

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