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Veronica Windholz

@veronicawindholz.bsky.social
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A longtime editor for Random House and Penguin, I now fly solo. I’m also a writer.

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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Holy of holies, it's Her Grace.
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
"Make a tight, cohesive narrative out of, well, the narrative."
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
"Mr. Iger has been overseeing Disney’s relief effort from a hotel.... 'I want [employees] to know that people at the top of the company are looking after them, that we care,' Mr. Iger said by phone.... 'We’ll get through it together.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/b...
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Hollywood’s Filmmaking Continues Despite L.A. Wildfires
Because of costs, few movies are shot locally, leaving the industry in a surreal spot: reeling from personal loss with much of the business untouched.
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
The Unstoppables The Secret of Life Is Not to Be Frightened "No one is challenging me to produce this work. There are no expectations. I feel at this crazy time that I’m beginning again." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/s...
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The Secret of Life Is Not to Be Frightened
The writer and painter Frederic Tuten, 88, insists, “I’m beginning again.”
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I heard a lot of praise for the movie Anora and now, having watched it, I'm wondering why.
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
"I don't want my washing machine to text me." lol ol
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
The current crop are not interesting enough to attract *my* attention. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/28/a...
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Pop Musicians, Please Spare Me the Back Stories (Gift Article)
The power of a lasting song is that it breaks free of its origins. Hits should be more than celebrity narratives.
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/a... "Tho he was sought after in the music industry as a studio perfectionist & reliable hitmaker, Mr. Perry tended to portray his process as simply a quest to elevate the artist & the song. “'I try to make the artist the biggest & best they can possibly be.'"
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Richard Perry, Record Producer With a Golden Touch, Dies at 82
Known for his work with Barbra Streisand, Carly Simon, the Pointer Sisters and many others, he was one of the most reliable hitmakers in the business.
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
This is such a charming piece. You really have to read the whole thing to appreciate it, though. See if you can find the time. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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As if Times Weren’t Unsettling Enough, Saturn Is Losing Its Rings
The rain it raineth every day, as Shakespeare noted, apparently even on Saturn. The cosmos, it seems, is no comfort at this moment.
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
"There was Hebrew Scripture and song, plus a couple of Beatles tunes. "There was steak and shrimp." In other words, it was not your typical bar mitzvah. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/n...
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Ron Eliran, Israeli ”Ambassador of Song,” Has a Bar Mitzvah at 90
In 1947, Ron Eliran’s 13th birthday in the British Mandate for Palestine was canceled when authorities called a curfew. Now, 77 years later, he has officially become a man.
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
I must return to Florence. This is a sight not to be missed. Now I've started a bucket list. This is at the top of it. www.cnn.com/2024/12/21/t...
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Secret passageway through one of Italy’s most famous cityscapes opens to public for first time | CNN
The Corridoio Vasariano, or Vasari Corridor, was built as a secret pathway connecting Palazzo Vecchio to Palazzo Pitti via the Uffizi Galleries and the Ponte Vecchio. It’s now open to the public for t...
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Since yesterday I've been wondering what all the police activity in my neighborhood was about. Now I know: fox5ny.com/news… "A bicyclist was struck by a car in the West Village on Wednesday, police said. "It happened around 3:05 p.m. "The driver then fled the scene."
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
"Outrage is expensive." www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...
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Opinion | Temporarily Disconnected From Politics? Feel No Guilt About It.
Black women aren’t the only voters who are taking a moment.
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I'm a New Yorker. I know about Mitchell-Lama. Who knows about Westbeth? westbeth.org
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Westbeth
Westbeth Artists Housing in NYC is the world's largest artists’ community. A home to the arts, it offers affordable artist housing and studios, exhibitions, performances, classes, workshops, and a cel...
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Maybe I'm just not following the right accounts? Odd that nobody on here has posted about Mangione, the assassin, being charged with first-degree murder and an act of terrorism “intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/n...
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Luigi Mangione Charged With Murder in UnitedHealthcare CEO Killing (Gift Article)
A grand jury formally indicted Luigi Mangione in the killing of Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare.
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Boy would I like to hear that version. Must visit Brazil. Maybe I'll get lucky and catch it on the fly.
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
"The U.S., Turkey and Israel pursue long-held ambitions after Assad’s ouster weakens Iranian and Russian influence." www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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Syria’s Post-Assad Vacuum Has Become a Shooting Range for Great Powers
The U.S., Turkey and Israel are all pursuing long-held ambitions in the country after Assad’s ouster weakened Iranian and Russian influence.
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
“'This was a rather brazen act of violence,' Mr. Brafman said. 'Given that there doesn’t seem to be an inch of Manhattan that isn’t covered in video recording devices, it’s hard to explain away what happened.'” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/n...
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Police Have Luigi Mangione’s Notebook Describing Rationale for UHC CEO Killing
“It’s targeted, precise, and doesn’t risk innocents,” said a sentence in a spiral notebook belonging to the man charged with murdering Brian Thompson.
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
In which virtue-signaling runs amok. "Top administrators at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn knowingly hired a felon to teach math and then 'shamed' teachers, students and parents who expressed discomfort with his conduct 'as racist or not progressive.'" www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/n...
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Saint Ann’s Protected Criminal Teacher at Students’ Expense, Report Says
The elite Brooklyn school commissioned an investigation after the arrest of Winston Nguyen, who is now accused of soliciting lewd photographs from students.
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
This is the most disturbing story you'll read anywhere today (if you dare). "Smartphone apps downloaded from Apple and Google can allow parents and other abusers to connect with pedophiles who pay to watch—and direct—[the abusers'] criminal behavior." www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/u...
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On These Apps, the Dark Promise of Mothers Sexually Abusing Children (Gift Article)
Smartphone apps downloaded from Apple and Google can allow parents and other abusers to connect with pedophiles who pay to watch — and direct — criminal behavior.
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
"Male underrepresentation is an uncomfortable topic in a literary world otherwise highly attuned to such imbalances." Maybe so. I'm very comfortable saying that women who are interested in how men think & act will lose the most by canceling male novelists. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/o...
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Opinion | The Disappearance of Literary Men Should Worry Everyone
What happens if half the population is no longer involved in reading and writing?
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
"Letting users decide to whom they want to listen and associate with is not good for advertisers (or adventitious propagandists), but it is good for individuals and for like-minded communities." www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/o...
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Opinion | Bluesky Is Different From X. For Now.
Users are looking for a more curated experience on a platform that is not constantly trying to get them to interact with brands.
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
The kicker is the most astute part: "This colorful character offers a useful reminder that Middle East politics under Donald Trump will often be more readily understood in light of the personalities orbiting Mar-a-Lago than through an ideological prism or in terms of U.S. national interest."
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Oh look! It’s a gallery of things I must now order online because it takes 20 minutes to find the Keeper of the Deodorant Key
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
If you read the conclusion, you can see that it's not hopeless. "If we’ve shifted what we hold in esteem, then it stands to reason that we could, as a society, shift back.... Everyone who’s upset about the change has a role to play in reversing it."
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Imagine that. Agree or disagree with him, he actually does have beliefs. Consistent ones.
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
"[The couple] are part of a growing group of microdrama content creators who have started long-term projects that bring the audience back for each new segment....The result is a series that, in quality & viewership, outdoes many TV and streaming programs." www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/s...
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Paloma Diamond and Bistro Huddy Bring Serial Dramas to TikTok
Short-form series like “Bistro Huddy” and Paloma Diamond bring old-fashioned serials to the world of social media.
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Who goes to the movies to be reproached?
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
a delectably brutal Dwight Garner review www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/b...
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Book Review: ‘Memories of Distant Mountains,’ by Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk’s illustrated notebooks lead us to the great writer’s mind, then ask us to remain outside.
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
So glad to see these go. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Dining Sheds Changed the N.Y.C. Food Scene. Now Watch Them Disappear.
Street side sheds and shanties helped keep restaurants afloat during the worst of the coronavirus pandemic. Now, for better or worse, new city rules are forcing their removal.
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
consequence.net/2024/11/nick... “The [world's] feverish obsession w/ politics...had thrown up so many palisades that had prevented us from experiencing the presence of anything remotely like the spirit, the sacred, or the transcendent–-that holy place where joy resides."
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Nick Cave Responds to Bob Dylan Tweet: "A Lovely Pulse of Joy"
Nick Cave has responded to Bob Dylan's tweet about attending his concert in Paris, calling it a "lovely pulse of joy that penetrated my exhausted, zombied state."
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
"Under anything resembling normal circumstances, even in this increasingly abnormal world, Dylan would not have taken the time to reply. But in a post verified by his camp to Rolling Stone, Dylan decided to fact-check Henry’s account with his own X response." www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Yes, You Can Look Bob Dylan in the Eyes
Bob Dylan took to social media to dispel a decades-old rumor.
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I cannot think of an author's correction I've ever read (in 40+ years as a copy editor in the book biz) that I've ever loved more than that one (the addition of the comma between "piece" and "on"). And to see it in a Bluesky post! That made my heart sing.
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I guess it's my turn now. Here's a piece I wrote in memory of Norman Mailer, with whom I worked (as a copy editor) on six books. I decided to take my turn because today is the anniversary of the assassination of JFK and my piece describes what it was like to work with NM on Oswald's Tale.
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Don't you guys here on Bluesky miss having bookmarks?
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
lol
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I'm reading Roman Year, a memoir by André Aciman. It's a follow-up to his first memoir (Out of Egypt, one of my longtime faves). I'm savoring it. #FridayReads
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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The US government recently bought powerful spyware that could make hacking your phone easier—and shape the way Trump executes some of his campaign promises, including mass deportations. My latest in @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
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The Technology the Trump Administration Could Use to Hack Your Phone
Other Western democracies have been roiled by the use of spyware to target political opponents, activists, journalists, and other vulnerable groups. Could it happen here?
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
What a troubling report. www.cnn.com/2024/11/18/s...
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Russian ballet star Vladimir Shklyarov dies after falling from building | CNN
Vladimir Shklyarov, a world-renowned Russian ballet star, has died after falling from the fifth floor of a building on Saturday.
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
That’s the quote. I was looking for it. And here it is. Hannah Arendt on the Matt Gaetz as AG announcement
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
That's the East 66th Street branch of the NYPL, closed for Veterans Day. The window is open for reflection.
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
Proud to see my alma mater (Tufts University) lead the way toward a new approach to an issue facing all universities today. now.tufts.edu/2024/09/03/d...
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Difficult Conversations, Healthy Dialogue, and Keeping an Open Mind
A Tufts panel discussion with four recent alumni gave new first-year students perspectives on choices they will face in college and beyond
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
Loved seeing this: "Dreyer was inundated with questions w/i minutes of the announcement, which came while he was at the dentist. 'I was like, all right, everybody just has to chill. I’ll be home in a little while and I can get to my desk.'” @bcdreyer.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/science/arti...
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Harris’ or Harris’s? Apostrophe row divides grammar nerds
The Harris campaign has yet to put a full stop to the issue, which has riled up social media users
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 24/07/2024
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Salman Rushdie stabbing suspect indicted on federal terrorism counts
Hadi Matar, 26, faces three new charges almost two years after writer was attacked on stage in Chautauqua, New York
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 03/07/2024
priceless-- via Threads, for those of you who aren't also on that app, and of course for @bcdreyer.bsky.social
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 16/06/2024
That is a most excellent piece by Roxane Gay. Do read it.
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 08/06/2024
Why does this app lack a bookmarking option?
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 29/05/2024
heads-up to word nerds, editors, close readers, copy editors, proofreaders, and other language nitpickers: the "Litwill" section of McPhee's piece is absolutely not to be missed--a delight from beginning to end see also the bit about the "Gulf of New Mexico" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Tabula Rasa: Volume Four
A project meant not to end.
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 16/05/2024
The video I saw elsewhere online was much worse. It's horrifying--cops standing by while "counter-protesters" create total havoc. I think it was on CNN somewhere. It was early this morning and I can't quite recall where I saw it.
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Veronica Windholz @veronicawindholz.bsky.social · 10/05/2024
Read 👇 and then y'all will know what to do.
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