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Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 2h

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 15h

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 8h

Feel like watching a comedy tonight.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16h

Film Club review – Aimee Lou Wood’s sweet, smart romcom revives the lost art of yearning

Wood and Nabhaan Rizwan are impeccably cast in this cute and deeply intelligent comedy about two film buff friends with unspoken feelings. It’s quietly confident TV that brims with insight

www.theguardian.com

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 8h

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Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 8h

Cannot wait to visit!

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 8h

Happy anniversary

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 13h

I’ve been thinking hard on framing my work as counterfactual.

Or increasing metafictional elements

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 14h

as Philip Roth said in his essay Writing American Fiction in 1961 — "The actuality is continually outdoing our talents, and the culture tosses up figures almost daily that are the envy of any novelist.” Though 40-some yrs later he wrote all-too prescient speculative fiction in Plot Against America

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Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 14h

Reads like a rough draft of a @jesswalter.bsky.social short story
(Sandpaper grit rough, but still)

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 14h

Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, and other infamous figures lived in and around Tacoma in the 60s. Did their psychopathy have a common cause?

Did Lead Poisoning Create a Generation of Serial Killers?

Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, and many other notorious figures lived in and around Tacoma in the sixties. A new book argues that there was something in the water.

www.newyorker.com

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Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 19h

The greatest trick was calling it AI

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 20h

We’ve been chatting up adventure time recently. So good.

The house ninja squad on the trail of a rogue lantern fly.

Two cats active in a window with a slain lantern fly near by.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 20h

Coal in the rear view mirror with horse and buggy.

kottke.org @kottke.org · 23h

“The world’s wind and solar farms have generated more electricity than coal plants for the first time this year, marking a turning point for the global power system.” [theguardian.com]

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

www.theguardian.com

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 20h

I finished MBF and immediately read it again. It’s a universal, emotional novel full of love for its characters and an affection for its readers. Brandon Taylor is a treasure. He’s such a vulnerable writer, and what a gift.

Riverhead Books @riverheadbooks.bsky.social · 23h

"Taylor is onto something rich and appealing—a story unafraid to foreground love and lust, and that treats emotional ambiguity as a starting point, not as the fuzzy ending common in literary fiction." -Kirkus Reviews

Read this gorgeous novel NEXT WEEK! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671349...

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Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 21h

This review is fire

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 1d

Posted a review on What We Can Know by Ian McEwan on GR.

Review: What We Can Know is brilliant! My new fave McEwan (after Atonement of course). A lovely page turning story brimming with insight that captures the just-get-through-it myopic essence of today and our urgent desire for a better tomorrow. I loved McEwan's dystopian vision.

I missed the narrative closeness of Atonement, but OMG I highlighted so many passages. This is a must read if you're a fan of literature from any era.

Vivien is spellbinding. Thomas and Rose were wonderful stand-ins for McEwan as was Percy imo. The story is so compelling, even if its shape feels familiar.

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 1d

Chefs kiss

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Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 1d

I love McSweeney’s

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 1d

"The main byproduct is turning a small community of relative strangers into a gladiatorial arena of imaginary power dynamics."

Nextdoor App or Stanford Prison Experiment?

1. It was founded in Silicon Valley with the sole purpose of amassing a bunch of prospective sociopaths together in one centralized location. 2. It...

buff.ly

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Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 1d

Vronsky meets Anna

It was as if a surplus of something so overflowed her being that it expressed itself beyond her will, now in the brightness of her glance, now in her smile...Leo Tolstoy

Quote from Anna Karenina

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 1d

They trust him and Bessent to bail them out. They’re playing with house money.

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 1d

Lol

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Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 1d

Jinx lol

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Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 1d

I’d never dunk on real writers, so here’s some shit writing 101 from an upward-failing editor in chief.

Non sequitur baby: BW’s legacy is watching news shows on Sunday in her den???

What is “it?” What sends her back?

So much it. Looking forward to it.

Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 1d

This list could easily be condensed to five items

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Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 1d

I’d never dunk on real writers, so here’s some shit writing 101 from an upward-failing editor in chief.

Non sequitur baby: BW’s legacy is watching news shows on Sunday in her den???

What is “it?” What sends her back?

So much it. Looking forward to it.

Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 1d

This list could easily be condensed to five items

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 1d

Must read! Brandon is on fire. The new novel is sublime reading.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 2d

“Painting and novels to my mind are basically wed. You can’t take them apart from each other.” Brandon Taylor discusses his new novel, “Minor Black Figures,” which follows a young painter in the years after the supposed racial reckoning of 2020.

Brandon Taylor on the Quandary of Black Art

The author discusses his latest novel, “Minor Black Figures,” and the discourse around racial subjectivity.

www.newyorker.com

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 2d

awwww wonderful