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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 12h

the only thing worse than suing someone for winning a rap battle against you is losing that lawsuit. incredible.

Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 12h

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 12h

I mean, there are many possible answers but a correct one simply going by word-stats has gotta be Aesop Rock.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 4d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 14h

I got to visit @ndbooks.bsky.social many moons ago and wrote about it at @newyorker.com. A wonderful story of independent publishing.

Congratulations to you and to László Krasznahorkai

www.newyorker.com/business/cur...

How Staying Small Helps New Directions Publish Great Books

New Directions evolved as it did because its founder was as far-seeing in business as he was in matters of taste.

www.newyorker.com

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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 14h

all the more relevant, too—but I can't imagine people putting it up now, for all kinds of various versions of fear

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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 14h

the absolute insanity of Tor not at least porting all those pieces over to Reactor...

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 14h

periodic reminder that if you write stuff that's published on the web for a publication you yourself do not own, PDF that shit as soon as it goes live

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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 14h

been thinking about Michael a lot recently (always, really; miss you, buddy) and this song in particular

Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 14h

So we'll ruin the banks
And we'll cripple the courts
And we'll take on the world for America's sake
And we'll take all the land
And we'll take back the country
And we'll take and we'll take and we'll take and we'll take…
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The Saddest Song

YouTube video by Elessar

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18h

The young progs yelled at you online, and, well, I guess you showed them! You helped render their culture an ugly, violent, stupid, contemptible wreck that will likely take decades to return to any form worthy of pride.

You showed those fucking kids! That will teach them to talk back.

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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 14h

I'm saying this as though it matters, or as though it'll end up being true—but I'm trying to be around here less, and by "here" I mean the internet. I want to post cool shit and share funny moments of life, but the actual joy is happening somewhere else. Maybe time for all of us to be there instead.

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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 14h

There is such a paucity of imagination in the chattering class—journalists, other politicians, etc. No curiosity, no willingness to consider the idea that the system we live in isn't the one we HAVE to live in. Indeed, seems like the opposite is true: an aversion to anything besides the status quo

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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 14h

The New Yorker profile of Zohran is a great example of just how hard it is (and will continue to be) to retrain people's brains to understand that maybe, just maybe, we can try to do things differently instead of only ever responding to the way things used to be done.

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Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · 15h

If you're a writer in the South with a funny, irreverent novel, this is the time to send it to me. I would love to read something like that right now.

Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · 15h

Serious books bum us out, fun books feel like they're not addressing THE TIMES. Getting something that's both is impossible. Writers are cranking out novels to please their agents, and agents are sending them unedited, and no one is answering anyone's emails because we're really, really tired.

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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 18h

I've never seen three fedoras total in here in the year I've been here! Let alone in a row! The power of the brodernists at work!

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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 18h

I've been in the store for less than 30 mins and literally three men, over 50, each in a fedora, have stopped to make some comment about "one long sentence? maybe I should check this guy out" at the Krasznahorkai display I put up at the register.

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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 18h

This is tomorrow night and I've been, in the midst of my October Country reading, dipping back into Lethem to prep — and I'm so so so excited. Hudson Valley, if you're free this weekend, O+ is well worth your time but I'd particularly love to see you tomorrow night for this very special kick-off!

Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 7d

So, fun update: I'll be interviewing Jonathan Lethem onstage for the opening event of the O+ Festival in Kingston next Friday (10/10) at 7pm. The festival runs all weekend (Fiery Furnaces! Charlene Kaye! Kool Keith!) and is pay-what-you-can — highly suggest you come through, if you're in the HV!!

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Caroline Casey @cacasey.bsky.social · 18h

the absolutely terrific @ndbooks.bsky.social is responsible for every happy english speaking nerd (on this continent) right now

László Krasznahorkai

New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914–1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies.

www.ndbooks.com

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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 19h

omg hell yeah!!

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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 21h

in the last eleven months, men have elected a president and pushed Paul Thomas Anderson past the $100 million mark for the first time in his career. Now, they finally have their Nobel Literature Laureate. They have accomplished all of this by podcasting

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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 21h

(to be clear this is a Nobel post)

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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 21h

CRAVENSWORTH!!!!!!!

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 21h

Brodernists around the world weep with joy

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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 1d

I miss when Gorillaz sounded like an actual band with a somewhat cohesive (not to mention ~kinda spooky~) sound instead of a folder for all of Damon Albarn's grab-bag experiments.

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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 1d

hell yeah hell yeah hell yeah

Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 1d

omg ANY TIME YOU WANT

(fwiw I do now have something for this week but there's ~always~ room in any upcoming episode you wish for frankly anything you might want to pop off about — but missing mmp is chefs kiss, truly any time you want)

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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 1d

the man who stopped (that version of) world war three!!

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