Writer: NYT, The Atlantic, WaPo, New York, Outside, New Republic + more. Author of "The Opt Outers" newsletter on Substack. Former CNN correspondent.
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I walked so @jaketapper could run
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Thrilled to announce our FIRST SPEAKER for the 2026 @MenSymposium, @BetsyDeVos, who will join @Moody for an on-stage discussion about adolescent boyhood and addressing the boy gap in education.
Symposium will take place Sept. 24 & 25 in DC. More speakers announced soon!
A little media advice for anyone who needs to hear it...
Remember, you never want to be the August story.
If you're the August story, you've already lost.
I spent a week with people who have unlocked the secret to getting paid to travel full-time. They’re starting businesses out of RV’s and vans.
Meet America’s “RV Entrepreneurs.”
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I gave up streaming for a year.
Then never went back. Here's what we do instead.
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Cal Newport and I spoke about how our family has been living in a log cabin without the Internet in our home for the past 3 years
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More thoughts on living without the Internet in "The Opt Outers" theoptouters.substack.com/p/…
Hard recommend. One of the most beautiful memoirs ever written about the relationship between fathers and sons.
In addition to my Odyssey translation, there’s my 2017 memoir about how my late dad Jay decided, aged 81, to sit in on my freshman #Odyssey course at @BardCollege :
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In @TheAtlantic , I make a personal case for reading the classics to your kids out loud, even the young ones.
“The Odyssey” is not, strictly speaking, a children’s book. But @Moody decided to try reading it to his 3-year old son anyway. He reflects on how his toddler has come to appreciate the great yarn: theatlantic.com/family/2026/…
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“The Odyssey” is not, strictly speaking, a children’s book. But @Moody decided to try reading it to his 3-year old son anyway. He reflects on how his toddler has come to appreciate the great yarn: theatlantic.com/family/2026/…
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I love this. At a time when childhood literacy rates are in free fall, @moody decided to read "The Odyssey," with some light censoring, to his 3-year-old son. theatlantic.com/family/2026/…
Has anyone here sat down to read "The Odyssey" out loud to your kids? How old were they?
I tried it. It's been several months now. We're still making our way through.
Not a bad thing. In our house, it's been the year of "The Odyssey"
theatlantic.com/family/2026/…
I just got Homermogged by Daniel Mendelsohn
"The Odyssey" has it all: Characters trip on drugs. A giant’s eye gets poked out with a red-hot stake. Odysseus is unfaithful to his wife. "Goodnight Moon" this is not.
Still, I'm reading it to my 3-year-old. Here's why:
theatlantic.com/family/2026/…
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My dear friend @moody read his 3-year-old The Odyssey and wrote about it in @TheAtlantic. Of course, it's written brilliantly because Chris is brilliant, but I do love this line in particular: "The Odyssey is not, strictly speaking, a children’s book."
theatlantic.com/family/2026/…
Chris Moody retweeted
“The Odyssey” is not, strictly speaking, a children’s book. But @Moody decided to try reading it to his 3-year old son anyway. He reflects on how his toddler has come to appreciate the great yarn: theatlantic.com/family/2026/…
