Adriane Quinlan
@adrianequinlan.bsky.social
writer & movie buff
Anyone have a story of how a now closed Starbucks fit into their life in NYC? Stories of first dates, job interviews, random run ins… I’m collecting them for a piece for next week at @curbed.com
Hit me up! DM or [email protected]
Hit me up! DM or [email protected]
October 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Anyone have a story of how a now closed Starbucks fit into their life in NYC? Stories of first dates, job interviews, random run ins… I’m collecting them for a piece for next week at @curbed.com
Hit me up! DM or [email protected]
Hit me up! DM or [email protected]
“13 percent of The Best American Poetry is composed of poems by past or future editors of The Best American Poetry.” Or, how a dude who arbitrarily hated Adrienne Rich used academic garbagetongue to trash up and dumb down an art.
The palace intrigue of the poetry world by @nicksturm.bsky.social
The palace intrigue of the poetry world by @nicksturm.bsky.social
It's the end of The Best American Poetry.
I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.
defector.com/good-riddanc...
I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.
defector.com/good-riddanc...
Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector
When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...
defector.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:52 AM
“13 percent of The Best American Poetry is composed of poems by past or future editors of The Best American Poetry.” Or, how a dude who arbitrarily hated Adrienne Rich used academic garbagetongue to trash up and dumb down an art.
The palace intrigue of the poetry world by @nicksturm.bsky.social
The palace intrigue of the poetry world by @nicksturm.bsky.social
Reposted by Adriane Quinlan
CBS News is giving up the power it has to hold “Face the Nation” interviewees to account. Following pressure from Trump, it has agreed not to edit interviews, even to remove false statements or propaganda uttered by political operatives and officials, or add explanatory context.
CBS News Agrees Not to Edit ‘Face The Nation’ Interviews Following Homeland Security Backlash
CBS News said it would cede its power to hold "Face the Nation" interviewees to account after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem complained
variety.com
September 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
CBS News is giving up the power it has to hold “Face the Nation” interviewees to account. Following pressure from Trump, it has agreed not to edit interviews, even to remove false statements or propaganda uttered by political operatives and officials, or add explanatory context.
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If anyone (@thebaffler.com @nplusonemag.com @publicbooks.bsky.social) might be interested in an article
offering an ideological post-mortem of almost four decades of The Best American Poetry anthology as a conservative publishing project, I'm yr guy.
offering an ideological post-mortem of almost four decades of The Best American Poetry anthology as a conservative publishing project, I'm yr guy.
For thirty-eight years, The Best American Poetry series showcased the nation’s most influential and vital poetry. The 2025 landmark edition marks a poignant farewell to series editor David Lehman—and to the enduring power of poetry.
Available now. https://bit.ly/3I2kwyZ
Available now. https://bit.ly/3I2kwyZ
September 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
If anyone (@thebaffler.com @nplusonemag.com @publicbooks.bsky.social) might be interested in an article
offering an ideological post-mortem of almost four decades of The Best American Poetry anthology as a conservative publishing project, I'm yr guy.
offering an ideological post-mortem of almost four decades of The Best American Poetry anthology as a conservative publishing project, I'm yr guy.
Reposted by Adriane Quinlan
Thank you @adrianequinlan.bsky.social for talking to me about my obsessive live-streaming of SimCity 2013. You can read the whole thing here: www.curbed.com/article/inte... and then JOIN ME when I play tomorrow. You can click and set a reminder to watch here: bit.ly/4kcriiK
June 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Thank you @adrianequinlan.bsky.social for talking to me about my obsessive live-streaming of SimCity 2013. You can read the whole thing here: www.curbed.com/article/inte... and then JOIN ME when I play tomorrow. You can click and set a reminder to watch here: bit.ly/4kcriiK
You: a person who made the leap, and rented an apartment from someone you were *already* friends with.
I want to ask you about that tenant/landlord relationship. The crushing demand of feeding their cat. The fear that they'd come down and... bring you cookies.
Happy to keep you anon. DM me!
I want to ask you about that tenant/landlord relationship. The crushing demand of feeding their cat. The fear that they'd come down and... bring you cookies.
Happy to keep you anon. DM me!
a man in a blue shirt wipes his nose in front of a poster that says le matin
ALT: a man in a blue shirt wipes his nose in front of a poster that says le matin
media.tenor.com
June 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
You: a person who made the leap, and rented an apartment from someone you were *already* friends with.
I want to ask you about that tenant/landlord relationship. The crushing demand of feeding their cat. The fear that they'd come down and... bring you cookies.
Happy to keep you anon. DM me!
I want to ask you about that tenant/landlord relationship. The crushing demand of feeding their cat. The fear that they'd come down and... bring you cookies.
Happy to keep you anon. DM me!
I saw my idol's name appear in the documents, did a search, called, and she picked up on the second ring. As I thought she might. As she'd written about doing in essay after essay: the phone as lifeline. "Hellooo?" As if I might be "Leonard," "Rhoda," Ann.
www.curbed.com/article/trul...
www.curbed.com/article/trul...
May 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I saw my idol's name appear in the documents, did a search, called, and she picked up on the second ring. As I thought she might. As she'd written about doing in essay after essay: the phone as lifeline. "Hellooo?" As if I might be "Leonard," "Rhoda," Ann.
www.curbed.com/article/trul...
www.curbed.com/article/trul...
They chartered the boat, bopping island to island with no human contact, creating an alternate society.
Or at least that's what I hoped before I clicked through... www.mysuncoast.com/2025/04/23/d...
Or at least that's what I hoped before I clicked through... www.mysuncoast.com/2025/04/23/d...
Dozens of ‘unattended’ cats seized from Bradenton Boat
The cats were seized by Manatee County Sheriff’s Department and the Manatee County animal welfare unit.
www.mysuncoast.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
They chartered the boat, bopping island to island with no human contact, creating an alternate society.
Or at least that's what I hoped before I clicked through... www.mysuncoast.com/2025/04/23/d...
Or at least that's what I hoped before I clicked through... www.mysuncoast.com/2025/04/23/d...
My son’s public school education has educated him on Easter — but sparingly. Today he drew a “rabbit cracking out of an egg.”
April 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
My son’s public school education has educated him on Easter — but sparingly. Today he drew a “rabbit cracking out of an egg.”
Misericordia is a mid student film and y’all would realize that if it wasn’t in French and set in a stunning “village.”
April 13, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Misericordia is a mid student film and y’all would realize that if it wasn’t in French and set in a stunning “village.”
My ideal food diary is a breakfast bowl created from all the leftovers available in a rich bath of hot sauce, a daytime fast broken by a 6pm buttered popcorn, and a late dinner that contains the only nutrients my body will get.
April 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
My ideal food diary is a breakfast bowl created from all the leftovers available in a rich bath of hot sauce, a daytime fast broken by a 6pm buttered popcorn, and a late dinner that contains the only nutrients my body will get.
I need an oral history of working at the FreshDirect warehouse on the night that New Yorkers started hoarding fine olive oil and coffee at pre tariff prices.
April 4, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I need an oral history of working at the FreshDirect warehouse on the night that New Yorkers started hoarding fine olive oil and coffee at pre tariff prices.
The year of bat mitzvahs was a silent meditation retreat compared to the year of fortieth birthday parties.
April 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The year of bat mitzvahs was a silent meditation retreat compared to the year of fortieth birthday parties.
Finally earned the New York Scout badge where you loudly yell “People are walking here, asshole!!” at a driver illegally plowing through a crosswalk. Bonus stripe for cursing right outside a daycare.
April 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Finally earned the New York Scout badge where you loudly yell “People are walking here, asshole!!” at a driver illegally plowing through a crosswalk. Bonus stripe for cursing right outside a daycare.
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I wrote about James Baldwin’s career as a freelance journalist for Liberties. libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
Freelance Blues: James Baldwin in the Magazines
Among the many grievances aired by Norman Podhoretz in his insufferable 1967 memoir Making It is an already septic grudge concerning The New Yorker’s publication of James Baldwin’s most famous essay i...
libertiesjournal.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I wrote about James Baldwin’s career as a freelance journalist for Liberties. libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
Me and Tom Colicchio on America: “I just don’t think it’s Maple forward enough.”
March 29, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Me and Tom Colicchio on America: “I just don’t think it’s Maple forward enough.”
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a couple days left to see this wonderful show on cooperative housing in nyc designed by herman jessor, one of the most influential, yet unsung, architects in the city. cooper.edu/architecture...
March 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
a couple days left to see this wonderful show on cooperative housing in nyc designed by herman jessor, one of the most influential, yet unsung, architects in the city. cooper.edu/architecture...
TIL Eartha Kitt's career suffered after a White House "ladies" lunch she spoke out against the Vietnam War and made the first lady cry.
"Mrs. Johnson, you are a mother too... I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my guts. I have a baby and then you send him off to war."
"Mrs. Johnson, you are a mother too... I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my guts. I have a baby and then you send him off to war."
March 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
TIL Eartha Kitt's career suffered after a White House "ladies" lunch she spoke out against the Vietnam War and made the first lady cry.
"Mrs. Johnson, you are a mother too... I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my guts. I have a baby and then you send him off to war."
"Mrs. Johnson, you are a mother too... I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my guts. I have a baby and then you send him off to war."
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NEW: The Supreme Court *will not* take up casino mogul Steve Wynn's bid to overturn the landmark free press ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan. The case, Wynn v. Associated Press, No. 24-829, was denied with no noted dissents or statements. #SCOTUS
March 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
NEW: The Supreme Court *will not* take up casino mogul Steve Wynn's bid to overturn the landmark free press ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan. The case, Wynn v. Associated Press, No. 24-829, was denied with no noted dissents or statements. #SCOTUS
Commercial leasing up 61%?!?!
some more congestion pricing Ws:
Broadway attendance: up 21%
Restaurant reservations: up 7%
Pedestrian traffic: up 4%
Retail sales: up $900M
Commercial leasing: up 61%
Subway crime: down 37%
Car crashes: down 50%
Honking complaints: down 69%
Broadway attendance: up 21%
Restaurant reservations: up 7%
Pedestrian traffic: up 4%
Retail sales: up $900M
Commercial leasing: up 61%
Subway crime: down 37%
Car crashes: down 50%
Honking complaints: down 69%
March 24, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Commercial leasing up 61%?!?!
Toni Morrison on why I still watch Love is Blind.
March 23, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Toni Morrison on why I still watch Love is Blind.
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I grew up on LI, hearing that East New York was the most dangerous part of Brooklyn. I didn’t know that the scheme to ruin it was hatched a mile from my house. For @thenation.com, I wrote about a new book that traces the repercussions of the conspiracy: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
How White-Collar Criminals Plundered a Brooklyn Neighborhood
Stacy Horn’s Killing Fields documents how East New York was ransacked by the real estate industry and abandoned by the city in the process.
www.thenation.com
March 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I grew up on LI, hearing that East New York was the most dangerous part of Brooklyn. I didn’t know that the scheme to ruin it was hatched a mile from my house. For @thenation.com, I wrote about a new book that traces the repercussions of the conspiracy: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Reposted by Adriane Quinlan
Pictures: Forty-seven signs spotted at anti-Trump/Musk protests around the world reut.rs/41S2FAZ
47 signs spotted at anti-Trump/Musk protests
Homemade and DYI signs spotted at anti-Trump/Musk protests.
reut.rs
March 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Pictures: Forty-seven signs spotted at anti-Trump/Musk protests around the world reut.rs/41S2FAZ
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“Gavin Stamp was clever at coining names for the plethora of bastardized substyles that proliferated during the interwar British building boom, [like] Pseudish, a Mediterranean-cum-Cape Dutch mishmash favored by nouveau riche sorts.” —Martin Filler
Build, Britannia! | Martin Filler
In 1944 the British architecture and design writer John Gloag declared, without much fear of contradiction, that “the modern movement does not yet speak
buff.ly
March 16, 2025 at 12:11 PM
“Gavin Stamp was clever at coining names for the plethora of bastardized substyles that proliferated during the interwar British building boom, [like] Pseudish, a Mediterranean-cum-Cape Dutch mishmash favored by nouveau riche sorts.” —Martin Filler