Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/07/2026"By the end of 2030," reports NYT, the amount of energy used by data centers"is expected to quadruple, eclipsing the power used by all countries in South America and Africa combined." This is extinctionism. 782199788
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmEmily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 18/07/2026We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.heated.worldAnother stolen summer dayWhat are we still waiting to learn? 252624666
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmBen Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Sarah Jean Grimm @sarahjgrimm.bsky.social 095
Reposted by Sarah Jean Grimmrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 05/06/2026‘dear rax, my middle class parents are ashamed that i clean houses for a living’ www.patreon.com/posts/160262... 271668399
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmKevin Nguyen @knguyen.bsky.social · 06/06/2026ZOHRAN’S NEW YORK CITY 0563
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmJosef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 13/05/2026sorry, i work at a university in a red state, and it’s illegal for the women & gender studies faculty to spend research money to attend their conferences. what in the fuck are they talking about 61075266
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmKimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social · 05/05/2026“Another enormous release day. Where is the benign millionaire who will fund a new book criticism publication so that more of these books will get coverage? Where are you??? Were you at the Met Gala last night looking stupid?” Go @maris.bsky.social Go! www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...themarisreview.comThe Maris Review, vol 103This week's theme is the excesses of girlhood What I read this week Last Night in Brooklyn by Xochitl Gonzalez It's been a long time since a novel has captured a particular time and a place with s... 1143
Sarah Jean Grimm @sarahjgrimm.bsky.social · 28/04/2026So touched! Thank you, Jonny and @literaryhub.bsky.social 🫀 030
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmNicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 21/04/2026“Within a week she seemed back to normal. What I didn’t know was that measles can cause long-term complications. A child can seem fine while the virus slowly replicates in her brain, poised to exact a terrible toll years later…. Parents should know just how dangerous this disease is.”nytimes.comOpinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know. 311152
Reposted by Sarah Jean Grimmniina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 14/04/2026All our best qualities as human beings are the ones we also share with animals 341
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmDaniel Felsenthal @dfelsenthal.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Thrilled to write about @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social and his new novel, an immersion in gay sex, erotic yearning and religious self-knowledge unlike any I've ever read. Glad @nymag.com and @vulture.com let me wax rhapsodic on this one. www.vulture.com/article/wayn...vulture.comI’m Obsessed With This Novel About a Gay RomanceWayne Koestenbaum’s My Lover, the Rabbi is a hilarious depiction of an intense infatuation. 082
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmSari Botton @saribotton.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Had the good fortune to talk a bit about Oldster Magazine with Kasia Pilat at The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/s...nytimes.comWhen Life Gave Her Ageism, She Created Oldster 1313022
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmD.S. Waldman @ds-waldman.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Thank you to the folks at @literaryhub.bsky.social for publishing this essay about, among other things, what I learned from my teacher Louise Glück, and from reading @garthgreenwell.bsky.social 0124
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans 267138804618
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmInnsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 08/02/2026The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children 1111993816
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmNicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 06/02/2026again these people don’t act like they believe in hell 521234
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmRon Charles @roncharles.bsky.social · 04/02/2026After 20 years, I've been laid off at The Washington Post. substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comI’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. 77485153
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmKim Zetter @kimzetter.bsky.social · 04/02/2026As Bezos's Washington Post announces sweeping layoffs this morning ... 43925
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmJohn Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Definitely worth noting since it wasn't announced in that way. 13216
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 30/01/2026BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care. 447295436392
Sarah Jean Grimm @sarahjgrimm.bsky.social · 27/01/2026An extremely beautiful and devastating piece. 1113
Sarah Jean Grimm @sarahjgrimm.bsky.social · 23/01/2026I had an election night stress dream in which I was really happy Biden won (embarrassing), and also he had a mullet (very cool, actually) 120
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmD.S. Waldman @ds-waldman.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Thanks to @thebaffler.com for publishing “Pt. Reyes,” a poem about love and microdosing with friends it’s drawn from ATRIA, out next month w/ @liveright.bsky.social @wwnorton.com 0105
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmZoë Schlanger @zoeschlanger.bsky.social · 11/12/2025The environment flows through our bodies, altering our trajectories in ways medicine is just starting to see. "Your 'environment' could be the refinery a town over, the lead in the paint of your mother’s home, the plastic sheath of a Hot Pocket you microwaved in 1996." www.wired.com/story/scient...wired.comScientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the WaterNew ideas about chronic illness could revolutionize treatment, if we take the research seriously. 115952
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality. 3059851561
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmBookshop.org @bookshop.org · 30/10/2025Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same. 5573934114816
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality. 8453442411321
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmLit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 21/10/2025“Here was how it worked in the world of the affair: there was a big, anonymous hotel one town away.” Read from @somers.bsky.social’s new novel, The Ten Year Affair.buff.lyThe Ten Year AffairHere was how it worked in the world of the affair: there was a big, anonymous hotel one town away. The hotel serviced business travelers. It was not pretty, but it was not lifeless, either. It was … 052
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmKevin Nguyen @knguyen.bsky.social · 17/10/2025give people the sequel they actually want (Second Cow) 1151
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmLit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Kate Colby on drawing inspiration from Edward Hopper’s Cape Cod Morning and how poetry can save the human brain.buff.lyA View with a Room: How Poetry Can Save the Human BrainI can’t write. It’s been over a year since I wrote a poem or anything at all, really, and this is not normal for me; I am always always writing. I’ve written my way through the hardest parts of my … 1181
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmLitbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 07/10/2025What a lovely message from @bookshop.org. Glad to see them growing and growing. We CAN claim back what has been taken from us by these monstrous corporations, and it starts with things like this. Grab some books these next couple days! 220994
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmKimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social · 07/10/2025“At seven o’clock in the evening, Gideon and Phoebe stuck a list of emergency contacts to the fridge, gave their sitter the usual spiel about bedtime, beseeched their kids to please, for God’s sake be good, and left to go have sex with the neighbors.” @somers.bsky.social in @grantamag.bsky.social 🔥granta.comPleasantries‘Her body looked good in that sumptuous way. He was not always attracted to her anymore, but he was attracted to her in this moment, and there was something noble about this, generous – he was about t... 131
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmKevin Nguyen @knguyen.bsky.social · 03/10/2025I feel very lucky that I got to talk about my Homeland-Security-mass-detention-Asian-American book on The Daily Showyoutube.comKevin Nguyen - “Mỹ Documents: A Novel” | The Daily ShowYouTube video by The Daily Show 58022
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmSara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Shocking for people who haven't been paying attention to disability as a main target of this administration, I suppose, but evil either way. 616557
Reposted by Sarah Jean Grimmniina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Once more for the night crew! I'm really proud of this book. It deals with being a parent at A Time Like This, and NC ecology, and risk, and so much more. Also there is funny stuff because life is fucking absurd. Poetry contains multitudes 1101
Reposted by Sarah Jean Grimmlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/09/2025at no point did we defund the police. it's important when we talk about defunding the police to note it never actually happened. would it work? we don't know! but merely phrasing the idea succinctly incited a reactionary backlash that put fascists in charge of all 3 branches of government. curious! 813383546
Reposted by Sarah Jean Grimmrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 29/08/2025i don’t know what to tell you guys if you genuinely still believe in ‘fuck you, you have no choice’ as electoral messaging except that it sounds like you’ve got it figured out and you don’t need my vote! 832919
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmDisability Rights Watch (US) @disrightswatch.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Party of pro-life stops monitoring for listeria, a food-borne bacteria known to cause still birth. 42912
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmSandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 28/08/2025I'm curating this books reviews series in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social for @literaryhub.bsky.social ... Everything we're soliciting is here on this page ... www.sandyernestallen.com/announcements 1106
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19/08/2025The United States could have great things like this. But we like to spend our money on kidnapping people and trafficking them to concentration camps instead. #Priorities 591157725202
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmKate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Another review in this Sunday's @bostonglobe.com is @hamiltoncain.bsky.social's smart take on THE GOSSIP COLUMNIST'S DAUGHTER by the masterful Peter Orner. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/12/a...bostonglobe.comA lively novel based on a real mystery in midcentury Hollywood - The Boston GlobePeter Orner's exuberant new novel, "The Gossip Columnist's Daughter," dramatizes a real-life unsolved murder, both a homage to Hollywood noir and a meditation on how and why our deepest connections ca... 173
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmIsabel @isabelott.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Joining an increasing number of people publicly demanding RFK’s removal as HHS Sec: Dr. Bill Foege, a literal (6’6”) & figurative giant of public health. He served as a CDC director under Carter & Reagan, & is credited with designing the ring vaccination strategy that enabled smallpox eradication. 2526206
Reposted by Sarah Jean GrimmKimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social · 15/08/2025“But without reliably insightful book reviews, literature risks becoming “an unweeded garden that grows to seed.” We’re left depending only on the whisper network of our own clique, exchanging the same tuna casserole back and forth.” @roncharles.bsky.social 🎯 📚s2.washingtonpost.comBook Club: Kate Riley’s ‘Ruth’ finds wit and wonder in a closed world 141
Reposted by Sarah Jean Grimmniina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 14/08/2025"This website uses cookies" bro me too it's fine 051
