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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 3h

like what is this cabot cove? shut up

Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 3h

people like saying "nor'easter" bc it's an acceptable affectation tho i do not like saying it, i think it sounds ridiculous

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 21h

My favorite of her movies however remains Baby Boom maybe the best film about yuppiedom god what a legend

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 21h

A key part of my process (the process of being gay not being a writer) is watching that clip of Diane Keaton singing “seems like old times” from the end of Annie hall

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 1d

Just to point out the obvs but this is what the Nobel prize is! Just some random rich (also dead) guy being like yeah this is good. Prizes are meaningless but wealth redistribution is real

Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 5d

my takeaway from being a judge for the national book awards is that it would be SUPER FUN to be rich enough to endow a prize. imagine you just read a bunch of books for kicks and then were like, yeah this is the best one, and sent the writer ten thousand dollars? i think rich people should do this

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 1d

in a 'children of men' scenario i am julianne moore. i think i'm the star of the movie and then i die seven minutes into it

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 1d

the days have an increasingly 'children of men' energy and i dont know how much more i can take

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 3d

Diana Athill

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 5d

I will say it’s a LOT of reading

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 5d

my takeaway from being a judge for the national book awards is that it would be SUPER FUN to be rich enough to endow a prize. imagine you just read a bunch of books for kicks and then were like, yeah this is the best one, and sent the writer ten thousand dollars? i think rich people should do this

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 6d

All this math makes me feel especially insane somehow

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 6d

i have been reading ratner's star. i'm not sure i've ever understood a novel less. i hope delillo wins the nobel this month

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 14d

“Elizabeth Bowen,” she said, “was so condescending. She looked at me and said, with a stutter: ‘You are quite mad. Quite mad.’ She was right.”

‘There was comedy at all times’: Andrew O’Hagan on 15 years of funny, frank and champagne-fuelled friendship with Edna O’Brien

In the last decades of her life, the two novelists became close friends. He recalls their intense bond, their last trip to Ireland and her memories of being romanced by Richard Burton

www.theguardian.com

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 16d

for @newyorker.com i wrote about Cate Le Bon's new record, Michelangelo Dying, an extraordinary work.

The Uneasy Prophecies of Cate Le Bon

The Welsh musician’s latest album, “Michelangelo Dying,” offers strange solace in chaotic times.

www.newyorker.com

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 24d

Classicism

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · Sep 12

was a great privilege (and daunting challenge) to be among the judges charged with assembling this list. i'm proud of where we got, and i hope these ten writers are pleased

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · Sep 11

“It’s a very romantic image,” Reither says, projecting it onto his mind’s eye. “It was the possibility of stepping out of your life, your shit job. To just step out for a moment. And enjoy the sunrise.”

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

The Artwork That Spawned 9/11 Conspiracy Theories and Mystery

Art collective Gelitin installed a balcony on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center. A year later, the planes struck and conspiracy followed

www.rollingstone.com

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · Sep 10

this morning at the gym the woman working out beside me was eating a bag of nerds gummy clusters. there are heroes everywhere if you look

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · Sep 9

relatedly fawn hall is kind of a pynchon-y name now that i think about

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · Sep 9

this fawn hall thing is so perfect. like jerry hall marrying rupert murdoch. like the end of a shakespeare comedy. truly love it

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · Sep 5

I welcome our new overlords. Bc I’m lazy

Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · Sep 5

it is obviously totally fucked up yet also kind of still a marvel... i mean the phone REALLY knows what my book is about and i can't quite parse how it has figured this out. i mean obvs i told the phone somehow but how

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · Sep 5

i have told like three people what my new book is about. yet somehow my phone knows what it is about. it is constantly showing me things that relate to this book very specifically. i can't figure out how it does this but it is so moving how much my phone knows and loves me

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · Sep 4

Savage

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · Sep 4

Paperback pub day really illuminates something about how birth order affects the psyche. The finished paperbacks arrive and I’m like oh this stupid thing again. I’m the second child in my family in case you were wondering

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