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Jennifer Wilson @jenniferwilson.bsky.social · 2d

Can world leaders have work-life balance? I traveled to Helsinki over the summer to find out. For this week's issue, I profiled Sanna Marin, the former "party girl" prime minister of Finland.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Prime Minister Who Tried to Have a Life Outside the Office

As the thirtysomething leader of Finland, Sanna Marin pursued an ambitious policy agenda. The press focussed on her nights out and how she paid for breakfast.

www.newyorker.com

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Caroline Eisenmann @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social · 7d

happy shared anniversary!! (still grateful we had a day free of rain ha)

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Caroline Eisenmann @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social · 13d

this was pretty wild, honestly! required a serious insiders view on the industry and what's going on; extremely curious about who it actually is

Caroline Eisenmann @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social · 13d

wow nothing like someone impersonating an editor fishing for a novel you have on sub to make you feel alive, I’m flattered Filippo 🥲

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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 16d

On the contrary this person has just been anointed and is now the pope, I'm hearing.

Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 16d

to the art director at Wired who made this unholy image.... you will not see heaven www.wired.com/politics-iss...

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Caroline Eisenmann @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social · 15d

Such an honor to work on this one, on so many levels-- it's a special project, and going to be a beautiful, incredibly thoughtful book.

Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 15d

I'm so happy to finally share this news. This book is about how the past 9 years changed my ideas about family, community, and care, and how those ideas fit into a long history. Huge thanks to my agent @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social, who held my hand through much angst, and to my editor Abby Mohr.

A Publishers Marketplace Deal Report for "How Much, How Little" by Rachael King. "UC Santa Barbara professor Rachael King's HOW MUCH, HOW LITTLE, about how her life was transformed in the wake of her late husband Ady Barkan's ALS diagnosis, and how it galvanized her to search for a new vision of caregiving in America, to Abby Mohr at One Signal, by Caroline Eisenmann at Francis Goldin Literary Agency (world English)"

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Caroline Eisenmann @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social · 20d

sitting in the coffee shop in the lobby of one of NYC's major publishers with the agency submissions tracking doc open.......... living dangerously...........

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Caroline Eisenmann @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social · 22d

"oh man, I think things are about to get really bad" a thought I have had approximately 123,342 times in 2025 so far

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Caroline Eisenmann @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social · Sep 7

once again reckoning with the fact that I may never in my life encounter another piece of writing I consider quite as perfect as this poem www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47553/...

Meditation at Lagunitas

That the clown- faced woodpecker probing the dead sculpted trunk of that black birch is, by his presence, some tragic falling off from a first world of undivided light. Or the other notion that, becau...

www.poetryfoundation.org

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Caroline Eisenmann @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social · Aug 22

everything is so stupid all the time

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Caroline Eisenmann @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social · Aug 7

yeah I will say this was a distinctly "I spend too much time indoors and on the computer" mullet look which contributed to the alarm

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Caroline Eisenmann @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social · Aug 7

that's good to know! obviously one sees a person reading on the subject publicly and feels a little, uh... uneasy

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Caroline Eisenmann @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social · Aug 7

sat across the subway this morning from a man with a long mullet reading ACCELERATE: The Accelerationist Reader, hard yikes

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Caroline Eisenmann @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social · Aug 5

I love clicking on this and finding it's a Holden joint :)

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Caroline Eisenmann @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social · Aug 3

we live in hell, exhibit 586,608

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Caroline Eisenmann @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social · Jul 29

real feel 98 yes phone trust me I know

Caroline Eisenmann @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social · Jul 29

laughably horrible outside

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Caroline Eisenmann @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social · Jul 23

Nick I just checked your Strava there was no one running by you that was not impressed lol

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Caroline Eisenmann @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social · Jul 23

I've been lusting after her cookbook but decided I had to cook a few of her recipes first to prove the buy to myself and good lord this first one was a stone cold knockout, actual restaurant quality cafehailee.com/recipes/stic...

Sticky Cherry Chicken Thighs | Hailee Catalano Recipes | Cafe Hailee

cafehailee.com

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · Jul 21

Why tech billionaires want a dictatorship — & why most of Silicon Valley will quietly watch democracy burn.

My talk with @jonfortt.bsky.social (my DePauw classmate) about the dangerous coalition between the far right & the tech right. On @theverge.com's Decoder

www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

Why tech billionaires want a dictatorship

Guest host Jon Fortt and The Nerd Reich author Gil Duran on the rise of tech authoritarianism.

www.theverge.com

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Caroline Eisenmann @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social · Jul 16

I didn't expect that Trump would actually somehow manage to make me MORE interested in Epstein conspiracy theories, but here we are

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Caroline Eisenmann @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social · Jul 11

So pleased to be working with the beyond brilliant Jaime on this gorgeous, expansive book on out space: our place in it, and our responsibilities to it. I adore the way she writes and thinks, and know how special this one is going to be!

Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · Jul 11

Beyond thrilled to share that I'm writing my next book, AT HOME IN THE STARS. It's about the human expansion into space and space as a human environment. Think Carl Sagan meets Robert Macfarlane. 🪐✨🧑‍🚀🌱 If you want updates / news when the book is (someday) out: jaimealyse.behiiv.com

On a background image of stars and dust from the Hubble telescope, this text (a book deal announcement): "Science/Technology. Best American Science and Nature Writing series editor and author of the LA Times Book Prize finalist The Possibility of Life Jaime Green's AT HOME IN THE STARS a narrative journey into the promise and peril of our future in space and what it might mean from a scientific, philosophical, and cultural lens to expand into the cosmos, again to John Glynn at Hanover Square Press by Caroline Eisenmann at Francis Goldin Literary Agency. (World)."

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Caroline Eisenmann @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social · Jun 30

Jess is one hell of an editor and a fierce advocate for her authors-- as an agent I'm sorry to see her go at Quirk, but if I were an author in need of a freelance editor, I'd jump at this!

Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · Jun 30

Today was my last day at Quirk—which means I finally have time for freelance editing clients! If you’re developing a book at any stage please get in touch and we can discuss how I can help www.jesszimmerman.com/editing.html

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Anna Pivovarchuk @annapivovarchuk.bsky.social · Jun 27

A much-needed essay @chaykak.bsky.social looking at the way using AI affects our thinking. Given what autocorrect has done to people's spelling, he's spot on in raising the alarm about the very average, extremely mundane reality of AI-aided creativity heading our way.

A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts

Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original.

www.newyorker.com

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Caroline Eisenmann @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social · Jun 25

oh hell yeah

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