divergent thinker, gardener, creative person 📚 fmr @simonschuster @amazon @airbnb @penguinrandom. I ❤️ rescue dogs, the natural world & mispriced assets
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When I explain it to friends outside of NYC, my own words are almost hard (for me) to believe.
Been here. I'm an investigative reporter by background and this process exceeded my capacities. @michelleinbklyn on the insane NYC public high school admissions process. nytimes.com/2026/10/19/opini…
“One of Barnes & Noble’s pandemic best-sellers had been “Middlemarch,” bought largely by people younger than forty-five.”
Alarm about declining interest in books is perpetual. But, as bookselling reaches unexpected heights, James Daunt, the chief executive of Barnes & Noble, thinks a different future is at hand. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
Congratulations to @chloepoet, a generational talent and true friend, on her new Mirabai translation
Blue Like My Beloved 🦋
ndbooks.com/author/chloe-mar… @NewDirections
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I spent a year working the apps for DoorDash, Uber, Amazon and more; saw disturbing things; brought people single cookies; probably delivered drugs; smashed up my nose; met people who made insane journeys to get you pad thai; wondered what we’re doing here simonandschuster.com/books/D…
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Animals Matter, the very first copy, with Finley and Snow, who helped inspire it. @PrincetonUPress @NickKristof @Treich13 @peta
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Breaking: CNN legend Christiane @Amanpour, the network's chief international anchor, is departing the network next June. cnn.com/2026/10/19/media/chr…
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Fiction by George Saunders: Sometimes a person has to be bold and trust that the person he’s being bold to will rise to the occasion. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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🇫🇷 Journée nationale de mobilisation : plusieurs dizaines d'interpellations ont eu lieu samedi matin à Paris tandis que la tension montait dans plusieurs villes de France avec de premières actions et manifestations.
➡️ u.afp.com/SC83
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Remarkable: China now requires *all* high school students to read Jane Eyre. economist.com/china/2026/10/…
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“Ninety percent of good writing is rewriting.” —Charles Johnson buff.ly/EhtaZP0
“These days, DraftKings ads blanket ESPN coverage, and this past March the companies enabled customers to link their ESPN and DraftKings accounts. It’s a partnership, a press release explained, “that goes beyond a traditional marketing arrangement, redefining how fans engage with sports.”
After a decorated 24-year run at ESPN, Nicole Noren resigned in protest.
She couldn’t go along with the network’s all-out embrace of gambling.
For the first time publicly, in @CJR, Noren shares the deeply personal reasons behind her decision.
cjr.org/the-interview/nicole…
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Huge news out of NYC, and a public investment model that has legs at various levels of government: city helping build research hubs and then sharing in proceeds from intellectual property generated there.
Quantum computing is the tech frontier.
nytimes.com/2026/10/14/nyreg…
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The Grace Hopper conference--the largest gathering of women in tech--was abruptly cancelled due to insufficient funding. Women are underrepresented in tech and AI globally. Truly, society is losing out by not investing in women in tech.
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Jill Lepore, staff writer at The New Yorker and Harvard professor, uses AI in her own research and sees real promise in it. But she argues higher ed is failing students if it treats machine-written work as education. chroni.cl/4e3WLU2
We need to be thinking about human authored books less in terms of the news of the day and more in terms of long term conservation/ preservation— the way we might think about preserving nature.
The problem is you can’t see a canon of literature the way you can see, say, Yosemite.
Literature was going to have a rough road regardless, but the epistemic ability of the people in charge here all but guarantees that it is finished as a human endeavour.
There is only one way to read fiction by humans—find stuff published before 2024.
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From @WSJopinion: Trump’s deal to buy 36 million barrels of Russian diesel won’t move prices much. What it will do is directly finance Putin’s bloody war in Ukraine.
on.wsj.com/4hOlJYE
