Elliott Holt
@elliottholt.bsky.social
Wrote a novel, YOU ARE ONE OF THEM. Working on another. Freelance editor (formerly at The Yale Review, The Kenyon Review, One Story) & college essay coach. My name has two l's and two t's.
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Elliott Holt
@elliottholt.bsky.social
· Nov 9
Note to self: never again wear red shoes on a red carpet.
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I’m so excited for @kellylink.bsky.social and @gavingrant.bsky.social, who are getting ready to BUY the building they’ve been renting for their beautiful bookstore Book Moon, in Western Mass. Support them if you’re able!
November 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I’m so excited for @kellylink.bsky.social and @gavingrant.bsky.social, who are getting ready to BUY the building they’ve been renting for their beautiful bookstore Book Moon, in Western Mass. Support them if you’re able!
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HAMNET (Chloé Zhao, 2025)
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
HAMNET (Chloé Zhao, 2025)
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We’re accepting applications for our (paid! remote!) summer internship! professors who follow me please share with any students interested in writing
Would You Like To Be Defector’s Sixth-Ever Editorial Intern? | Defector
Big news: Defector is looking to hire editorial interns for the summer of 2026. Wow! That could be you! How could it be you? I am here to answer that question, and many more. What will a Defector inte...
defector.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
We’re accepting applications for our (paid! remote!) summer internship! professors who follow me please share with any students interested in writing
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I think the people wondering how the Nuzzis & the Lizzas of the world get so famous are maybe making more discriminating choices. But fact is, more people prefer such ego bombs than the many, many excellent journalists w/out white mustangs or tell-all bamboo metaphors.
November 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I think the people wondering how the Nuzzis & the Lizzas of the world get so famous are maybe making more discriminating choices. But fact is, more people prefer such ego bombs than the many, many excellent journalists w/out white mustangs or tell-all bamboo metaphors.
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November 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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I have been looking at Black Friday sales for a week but I do not actually need anything so instead I closed all those tabs and bought a Polaroid for a foster kid in Florida who uses photography to deal with big feelings. Perhaps you would like to do the same for one of the kids at the link below?
🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I have been looking at Black Friday sales for a week but I do not actually need anything so instead I closed all those tabs and bought a Polaroid for a foster kid in Florida who uses photography to deal with big feelings. Perhaps you would like to do the same for one of the kids at the link below?
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So, I won a National Book Award.
November 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
So, I won a National Book Award.
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The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I found the one exception to my belief that journalists should be paid for their work
November 22, 2025 at 6:42 AM
I found the one exception to my belief that journalists should be paid for their work
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The extent of the damage done to public health, biomedical science, and healthcare in the US in less than a year will take a generation or more to repair. This is the scale of the destruction. Let that sink in. A new president, Congress won't be enough to reverse things fully. It's that bad.
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
The extent of the damage done to public health, biomedical science, and healthcare in the US in less than a year will take a generation or more to repair. This is the scale of the destruction. Let that sink in. A new president, Congress won't be enough to reverse things fully. It's that bad.
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huh, i thought this was AI because there's no way someone could order such an ugly shirt
It is real:
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
huh, i thought this was AI because there's no way someone could order such an ugly shirt
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Trump is absolutely cratering on economy in new Marquette poll:
Overall econ approval: 36-64
On tariffs: 37-63
On inflation/cost of living: 28-72 (!!!)
"We’re looking at a really grim downward spiral for Trump," says @timothynoah.bsky.social. All on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
Overall econ approval: 36-64
On tariffs: 37-63
On inflation/cost of living: 28-72 (!!!)
"We’re looking at a really grim downward spiral for Trump," says @timothynoah.bsky.social. All on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
Trump’s Anger over Prices Goes Nuclear as Fresh Polls Show Him Tanking
As Trump’s inflation rants grow more unhinged amid brutal new polls for him, an economics writer explains why Trump is ill-suited for the crisis that might be coming—and why the bottom might be about ...
newrepublic.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Trump is absolutely cratering on economy in new Marquette poll:
Overall econ approval: 36-64
On tariffs: 37-63
On inflation/cost of living: 28-72 (!!!)
"We’re looking at a really grim downward spiral for Trump," says @timothynoah.bsky.social. All on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
Overall econ approval: 36-64
On tariffs: 37-63
On inflation/cost of living: 28-72 (!!!)
"We’re looking at a really grim downward spiral for Trump," says @timothynoah.bsky.social. All on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
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The Trump admin's case to the Supreme Court that the situation in Chicago justifies a National Guard deployment rests partly on the actions of two motorists.
Now, prosecutors have moved to dropped charges against them. Julie Bosman reports... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Now, prosecutors have moved to dropped charges against them. Julie Bosman reports... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Officials Move to Drop Case Against Drivers in Chicago Immigration Clash
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The Trump admin's case to the Supreme Court that the situation in Chicago justifies a National Guard deployment rests partly on the actions of two motorists.
Now, prosecutors have moved to dropped charges against them. Julie Bosman reports... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Now, prosecutors have moved to dropped charges against them. Julie Bosman reports... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
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TEN MONTHS IN:
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
TEN MONTHS IN:
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
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Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
November 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
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Email from a student who turned in a ChatGPT essay. Not even looking at the ChatGPT output in the apology 🥴
![Dear [Professor’s Name],
I want to sincerely apologize for my actions regarding my midterm submission.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fs6z2b756buwsdsjkle6utfi/bafkreiecvhzfgr4tlwyy2mvpbvjncqkysytwsxvidaoressh7peonoso3y@jpeg)
November 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Email from a student who turned in a ChatGPT essay. Not even looking at the ChatGPT output in the apology 🥴
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I have a new poem out. I thought it was coming out next week. A lot I know...
“Just as I come to know a thing it’s gone again.”
A new poem by D. A. Powell. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/senescence-d-a-powell-poem
A new poem by D. A. Powell. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/senescence-d-a-powell-poem
“Senescence”
“Just as I come to know a thing it’s gone again.”
www.newyorker.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I have a new poem out. I thought it was coming out next week. A lot I know...
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When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: Jeffrey E. Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender…
www.thecrimson.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:45 AM
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: Jeffrey E. Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
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Really thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Really thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
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Watching right-wingers suddenly discover that Trump is a bad person is wild
November 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Watching right-wingers suddenly discover that Trump is a bad person is wild
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NEW: The loudest critics of Trump in the judiciary have turned out to be Ronald Reagan-appointees. This week, another — Mark Wolf — joined their ranks, resigning to speak out against the president.
I spoke with Judge Wolf today. He’s worried. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
I spoke with Judge Wolf today. He’s worried. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 14, 2025 at 10:53 PM
NEW: The loudest critics of Trump in the judiciary have turned out to be Ronald Reagan-appointees. This week, another — Mark Wolf — joined their ranks, resigning to speak out against the president.
I spoke with Judge Wolf today. He’s worried. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
I spoke with Judge Wolf today. He’s worried. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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There’s another wave of author impersonators offering consultations/mentoring for a price. (I got one from “Claire Keegan” telling me I’m very promising!) I’m sure you are great, but I didn’t email to tell you how swell you are. Here’s info on book scams: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/prh-fraud/
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
There’s another wave of author impersonators offering consultations/mentoring for a price. (I got one from “Claire Keegan” telling me I’m very promising!) I’m sure you are great, but I didn’t email to tell you how swell you are. Here’s info on book scams: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/prh-fraud/
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That NYTBR quote? It's from this incredible review today by Rachel Louise Snyder, whose book NO VISIBLE BRUISES not only is itself a landmark book, but actually helped me feel less alone at a time when I genuinely believed I didn't have the mental fortitude to finish WITHOUT CONSENT. I feel so seen.
She Was a Victim. She Became a Headline. Here, She’s a Person.
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
That NYTBR quote? It's from this incredible review today by Rachel Louise Snyder, whose book NO VISIBLE BRUISES not only is itself a landmark book, but actually helped me feel less alone at a time when I genuinely believed I didn't have the mental fortitude to finish WITHOUT CONSENT. I feel so seen.