So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.
morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ... there's info on who to complain to to try to stop this at the end of the article, lets share this message and try our best to stop it.
Honored to have an excerpt from my book, "In Trees" (out 4/7) in the pages of this week's
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This piece is about the summer I spent in a treehouse to blockade an oil pipeline, and why some protest movements change history, while others fade quietly into obscurity.
I'm also giving a biography masterclass in Melbourne, next Thursday, if that is more your speed.
And next Wednesday, I'll be at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne. (I love Melbourne and am very excited.)
Sydney friends, I'll be in conversation this Friday with Caroline Baum at the Mechanics' School of Arts. Should be a fun conversation.
I think it has value if you're a young writer without connections, unsure what is on offer in the writing world, and curious about things like MFAs (my Bennington colleagues have a stall). But otherwise I agree.
Yep, it still is. Look up 65 Prospect St, Providence, RI.
What is really weird — Lovecraftian? — is that last time I checked, his house was blurred out on Google streetview. Like a hole in reality.
I spent a year in the NYPL as a writer in residence and it was the best year of my life. Walking through the lobby and Rose Room before it opened to the public is a surreal and wonderful experience.
He lived around the corner from my house (I live in Providence), and people leave all sorts of weird stuff at his surprisingly modest grave in the nearby cemetery. There's a bookshop in town that sells basically nothing but Chulthu stuff; seems to do a roaring trade.
In October, migrants attempted more than 10,000 crossings to Poland through the Białowieża Forest. The country passed a law that effectively allows authorities to force migrants back across the border immediately after they arrive, often violently. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/dEHZ7a
Nicest man, brilliant writer.
I’m sure the extensive use of AI at the Pentagon is going to be great.
People downplay how deeply weird it is.
Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license.
They can't even escape this by moving to another state.
Philosophy #FAQ Ontology: what the fuck? Causality: why the fuck? Epistemology: how the why the fuck? Phenomenology: the fuck.
Watching a government declare war on its own people is really something.
Totally devastating film
Helen Frankenthaler in her studio, photographed by David Parks for Life magazine in 1956.
I guffawed when I read that line.
Stephen Colbert said that the FCC and CBS - which is in no way a compromised or complicit organization - wouldn’t allow him to broadcast an interview with Democratic State Rep James Talarico. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...
If you're in D.C. a week from tomorrow, there's an event at Politics & Prose honoring the history of Book World. I think the tone will likely be less funerary than you might imagine. I know my comments will be. politics-prose.com/tribute-book...
On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
Stone cold classic.
This is good news for tigers in India, but tigers elsewhere are not doing so well, and three (Balinese, Javan, and Caspian) of nine tiger subspecies are extinct. 🌍
www.goodnewsnetwork.org/tiger-popula...
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
When Anthropic stopped training on books that were literally pirated, they managed to hit on the one way of buying books that means no money goes to authors: buying used books.
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