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There is nothing like the sound of a child's laughter to remind you that your apartment is haunted.
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I reviewed the new Larry David bio and here is evidence that his hair used to be cumulus not cirrus (you can take the gal out of Styles, but..). .nytimes.com/2026/10/18/books…
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Oh. My. God. My book made the non-fiction shortlist for the Brooklyn Library Book Prize!! I am beyond ecstatic. I will be posting more about this, but in the meantime I am dancing around my apartment, screaming into pillows. @bklynlibrary @zandoprojects
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My book, The Killing Fields of East New York, is on the list for The Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize! This one means a lot to me. It was important to me that I do a good job. Win or not, the fact that I made this list is heartening.
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I spent three years writing a whole book and she just ... tweeted it out.
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1. Shared armrest in Economy
2. Grocery coupon expired, but only one day
3. Sweet tooth/waistline
4. Gophers in yard
5. Literal pissing contest, distance
6. Literal pissing contest, arc
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Sharing an anecdote, 19th Century Novel Style:
"So there's this guy."
"WHOA, back up. Who was his grandpa?"
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I like to keep my resolutions realistic, so I’m just going to refrain from any jury tampering this year and call it good.
Me, being rounded up along with everyone else my age by a triumphant DSA: Wait! No! You don't understand! I followed menaker and cushbomb before they even started the podcast! NO! STOP! WE WERE MUTUALS!
He set about doing the dishes with a sort of wild abandon he had never known in his youth, had never imagined possible. One, two! One, two! Plates and glasses, forks and knives, all fell before him. One, two! One, two! "Snicker-snack!" he shouted, startling the cat.
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More and more these days, I think about this line from “Bull Durham”:
“The world is made for people who aren’t cursed with self-awareness.”
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thenation.com/article/cultur…
(Malzberg, our S. Beckett of pulp-fiction/classy sci-fi, who refined the art of curmudgeonly stand-up comedy disguised as the bleakest pessimism in American lit. since the elder dyspeptic M. Twain.)
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(getting dragged away dripping wet by police) “It’s not the same stream! The stream is always changing! The stream the sign refers to no longer exists, you fools!”
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Sandra Newman’s JULIA just won @TheKitschies!
Here’s our editor @JasonArthur01 with the iconic red tentacle 🐙
