Jim Marino
@jamesjmarino.bsky.social
early modernist, Shakespeare nerd, moonlighting fiction writer
living the good life in Cleveland
living the good life in Cleveland
Thrilled to be in the latest @newohioreview.bsky.social alongside so much powerful, thoughtful work. Really honored to appear alongside these artists.
Anyway, here’s a holiday story. Hope your holidays go better than this one.
newohioreview.org/2025/11/23/t...
Anyway, here’s a holiday story. Hope your holidays go better than this one.
newohioreview.org/2025/11/23/t...
The News from North Korea
By Jim Marino We’re three bites into not-quite-Christmas pie when my mother breaks into the epic tale of Dad leaving her for another woman. Sometimes it’s a blonde, sometimes a spurious redhead, de…
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December 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Thrilled to be in the latest @newohioreview.bsky.social alongside so much powerful, thoughtful work. Really honored to appear alongside these artists.
Anyway, here’s a holiday story. Hope your holidays go better than this one.
newohioreview.org/2025/11/23/t...
Anyway, here’s a holiday story. Hope your holidays go better than this one.
newohioreview.org/2025/11/23/t...
I first saw and read Stoppard’s work my first year of college. For me, he has always been part of the canon, but also always working and generating new, surprising theater.
I’ll miss having new Stoppard plays.
I’ll miss having new Stoppard plays.
November 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I first saw and read Stoppard’s work my first year of college. For me, he has always been part of the canon, but also always working and generating new, surprising theater.
I’ll miss having new Stoppard plays.
I’ll miss having new Stoppard plays.
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Book Moon Books
Bright and shiny independent bookshop in Easthampton, MA
www.bookmoonbooks.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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At this point X is like 1950s Vienna, a whole place made up entirely of spies, running ops against other spies, with no non-spy people. Or maybe like a 1971 Black Panthers convention where 3/4 of the attendees are conintelrpo.
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 AM
At this point X is like 1950s Vienna, a whole place made up entirely of spies, running ops against other spies, with no non-spy people. Or maybe like a 1971 Black Panthers convention where 3/4 of the attendees are conintelrpo.
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bay area friends, this will be so lovely—a party 12/3 raising funds for @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social & @litquake.org, two beloved organizations hit hard by NEA & NEH cuts
hosted by daniel handler, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, jonathan escoffery, @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, & @alexismadrigal.bsky.social
hosted by daniel handler, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, jonathan escoffery, @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, & @alexismadrigal.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
bay area friends, this will be so lovely—a party 12/3 raising funds for @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social & @litquake.org, two beloved organizations hit hard by NEA & NEH cuts
hosted by daniel handler, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, jonathan escoffery, @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, & @alexismadrigal.bsky.social
hosted by daniel handler, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, jonathan escoffery, @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, & @alexismadrigal.bsky.social
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
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This absurd oversensitivity about professors having sex with minors procured for them by sex criminals shows that campus cancel culture is out of control.
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
November 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
This absurd oversensitivity about professors having sex with minors procured for them by sex criminals shows that campus cancel culture is out of control.
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
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I’m 250 paid subscribers away from a major goal. Think we can get there tonight? www.thehandbasket.co/upgrade
New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I’m 250 paid subscribers away from a major goal. Think we can get there tonight? www.thehandbasket.co/upgrade
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pretty much beyond question that Larry Summers led the charge against Claudine Gay because he is personally a vitriolic misogynist and racist www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...
88 Days: The Unraveling of Claudine Gay’s Harvard Presidency | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned on Jan. 2, ending her tenure as the University's 30th president after it was clear the Harvard Corporation lost confidence in Gay's ability to lead amid mountin...
www.thecrimson.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
pretty much beyond question that Larry Summers led the charge against Claudine Gay because he is personally a vitriolic misogynist and racist www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...
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A dream denied: My 54-year quest to publish a short story in F&SF ‹ Scott Edelman
www.scottedelman.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Larry Summers is too dumb and smug to grasp he’s not always the smartest person in the room despite spending decades at …
Harvard, a place where everyone, in every room, knows *something* you don’t and understands *something* better than you ever will.
Larry Summers will stay dumb forever.
Harvard, a place where everyone, in every room, knows *something* you don’t and understands *something* better than you ever will.
Larry Summers will stay dumb forever.
November 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Larry Summers is too dumb and smug to grasp he’s not always the smartest person in the room despite spending decades at …
Harvard, a place where everyone, in every room, knows *something* you don’t and understands *something* better than you ever will.
Larry Summers will stay dumb forever.
Harvard, a place where everyone, in every room, knows *something* you don’t and understands *something* better than you ever will.
Larry Summers will stay dumb forever.
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Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
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I think the people who's brains are so broke on nothing matters considering the last 3 weeks or so really need to take some deep breaths and maybe just stop being online for like a year.
November 15, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I think the people who's brains are so broke on nothing matters considering the last 3 weeks or so really need to take some deep breaths and maybe just stop being online for like a year.
The best things in life
Never show up in the metrics
Never show up in the metrics
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The best things in life
Never show up in the metrics
Never show up in the metrics
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Re: Epstein’s emails
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Re: Epstein’s emails
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
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thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this:
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this:
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
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On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
November 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
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my mac doing its best to telephone a seventeenth century ecclesiastical record 🗃️
November 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
my mac doing its best to telephone a seventeenth century ecclesiastical record 🗃️
Can generative “AI” do what Joyce Carol Oates can do? I think the definitive experiment just got run.
November 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Can generative “AI” do what Joyce Carol Oates can do? I think the definitive experiment just got run.
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Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
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He's going to ban her and then she is, for better or worse, going to come here
Oates represents something Musk fundamentally cannot buy: the authority of cultural memory. this is a concept i call "ontological entitlement"—the hyper-rich, having gained endless material resources, begin to assume an inherent right to emotional, intellectual, and spiritual ones as well.
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
He's going to ban her and then she is, for better or worse, going to come here