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Kristen Evans

@paperalphabet.bsky.social
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Culture writer: buzzfeed, new republic, la times, boston globe, etc. | content strategist for hire | still writing that novel! | newsletter: interior-castles.ghost.io | hello@kristen-evans.com

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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
i like the booker list, despite there being too many americans on it (again/always). i want that new chloe aridjis!
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
i think the wildest thing about the entire lrb / odyssey situation is that there are genuinely *that* many people who believe the film was good
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Feel like if Spain scores three more goals they might get to keep one
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
this game is just as long and bad as “the odyssey.”
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
no way is a robot in a bad wig at tech company prices cheaper than paying a rural school teacher salary
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Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I wrote about Kerri Greenidge because the vague-accusation-to-career-ending-punishment math isn’t mathing. Show us the work. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The Scandal and the Scale
I was bleary-eyed on a delayed flight when I spotted a New York Times article about Kerri Greenidge, a historian of Black political life and memory.
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
i enjoy world cup a normal amount, but i don’t understand why everyone hates england & is cheering for norway (a team that seems very invested in shoving people)
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
i would like to represent the moon in the upcoming lawsuit
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
AND YOU ALL BETTER BE THERE
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
another poorly officiated match! we also played pretty bad! you hate to see it!
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
oh my god, this poor goalie
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
so many fouls, my god
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
they are still playing like shit, but those two good shots on goal seem to have given them some confidence back, which is good
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
nice to see the refs remember what a foul looks like
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
this game is reminding me of the perils of being a midfielder
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
my favorite part of that game was the shot of javier bardem
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
they are somehow always saying anyone who criticizes said champion is shrill and/or exaggerating and/or divisive
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
at least today we are playing soccer
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
if your power was out for part of the three-day weekend, you get a do-over, i don’t make the rules
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
someone once refused to provide me a real manuscript critique in class and instead counted all the times i used specific words lol
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
did that player swing on himself? that was NUTS
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
why is the democratic party also fighting for…not even the status quo, but the regressive vision that the republican party has wrought. like, they are not even trying to get back to where we were five years ago. and they’re mad at the progressive wing? a joke.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This is what the moderates got us.
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
once again i wonder why we are forced to be in thrall to these dweebs who clearly care about neither justice nor the law
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
everyone’s all-in on AI-powered search until they realize they need a content strategist and some information architects to make it functional
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter’s Anti-Intellectualism in American Life and now every time a Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for The Nation: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The Anti-Intellectualism of the Silicon Valley Elite
How the self-styled know-it-alls atop the knowledge economy want to dismantle the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 04/04/2026
It's indeed possible to beat bad things backed by big money
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Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed
The vast majority of data centers scheduled for completion over the next few years have yet to even break ground.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
In other news, I am really excited to share some new initiatives we're launching at The Rumpus including increased pay, writing and editorial fellowships, and microgrants. therumpus.net/2026/03/31/e...
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Exciting New Rumpus Initiatives - The Rumpus
Debbie Millman and I are thrilled to share some exciting new initiatives we are launching with The Rumpus. Beginning on April 1, 2026, we are increasing
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
After years of research, Daphna Renan & I are thrilled to announce preorders of SUPREMACY. Why is US democracy so broken? One reason is we've wrongly accepted that 9 justices have the final say over the Constitution. This book traces how that happened—& how we can reclaim power to govern ourselves.
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Supremacy
From two acclaimed legal scholars, a new history of the Supreme Court that overturns our most basic assumptions about its role in our democracy, showing how it seized the power it now wields., Suprema...
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
say it louder for the people in the back
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
trying to force AI onto reporters of this caliber is fucking embarrassing
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
i feel like we are long overdue for an analysis of how the techno fascist right linked & weaponized femininity with democratic norms & progressive social ideals. someone has gotta be on top of this somewhere, right? newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
newrepublic.com
Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
If dems don’t break up the maga media conglomerates as soon as they can they have no sense of self preservation bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Truly a perfect news alert
NBC News poll

Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.
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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Here is the first issue of The Book Supplement 💗📚
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The Book Supplement,Vol. 1
Anne Fadiman, Mieko Kawakami, Polly Atkin, and Bruce Robbins.
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
this is even worse! lol
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The left is not "missing out" on AI. It's winning the argument. Americans worry about AI and dislike tech CEOs. They're mobilizing against data centers. They support regulation, even refusal. Calls for the left to embrace AI are an effort to change the terms of the debate in Silicon Valley's favor.
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Actually, the left is winning the AI debate
But it does need to get organized.
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
shorter version of this supreme court’s rulings on the constitution: racism is fine, actually, but don’t mess with our stock portfolios
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
you guys…what are we doing here
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
just when this hot libra could not get any hotter or more libra-esque, he starts marrying people (mr mayor, i am sorry this is the first time i’m interacting with your account, i am, despite all appearances, a serious person & a fan)
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
i am going to be thinking about this forever
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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Appreciators of Sylvia Townsend Warner, take note: the Dorset Archives Trust is fundraising to create a digital catalog of Warner's archive (85 boxes of documents & items!), making the whole vastly more accessible to the world. Info here: www.dorsetarchivestrust.org/project/sylv...
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Sylvia Townsend Warner Fundraising Appeal | Dorset Archives Trust
Dorset Archives Trust isleading a fundraising appeal to bring the Archive of writer and LGBTQ+ pioneerSylvia Townsend Warner(1893-1978) into the public domain through the creation of a full catalogue....
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Glad that Will asked me to comment on concentration camp history and the current detention plans for a warehouse in Tremont, Pennsylvania.
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Ron Charles @roncharles.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
After 20 years, I've been laid off at The Washington Post. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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I’ve Been Laid Off. I’m Not Done.
After 20 years at The Washington Post, I’m suddenly on my own — and still writing about books.
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
i am not in any way downplaying the seriousness of what happened today, but: i believe in the creativity of people who work in media & i believe new and interesting and hopefully more equitable publications and businesses will come out of this moment.
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
we have such a massive elite impunity problem in this country
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
well. we either need good rich people to step up and help the arts or somehow develop even more capacity to do it ourselves. i am tired.
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