Laurie Muchnick
@lauriemuchnick.bsky.social
Fiction editor at Kirkus Reviews. Welsh by marriage. 🏴✡️📚
These are incredible, from a Lebanese restaurant called Ilili in Manhattan: chewingthefat.us.com/2022/10/are-...
Are these the Best Brussels Sprouts Ever? Ilili’s Brussels Sprouts
Fig butter, roasted walnuts, sliced red grapes, and a mint yogurt sauce make roasted Brussel Sprouts juicy-sweet and crispy-crunchy.
chewingthefat.us.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
These are incredible, from a Lebanese restaurant called Ilili in Manhattan: chewingthefat.us.com/2022/10/are-...
Can't wait to see how much space the NYT is going to give this one.
November 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Can't wait to see how much space the NYT is going to give this one.
So I've discovered! I wonder why he moved it. Seems weird—like turning the Pentagon into an Octagon or something.
October 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
So I've discovered! I wonder why he moved it. Seems weird—like turning the Pentagon into an Octagon or something.
I didn't realize till I read Tony Scott's piece about it today that MI5 isn't actually located on Regents Park. And I lived by the park for a while myself—I just assumed it was secret back then!
October 23, 2025 at 2:57 AM
I didn't realize till I read Tony Scott's piece about it today that MI5 isn't actually located on Regents Park. And I lived by the park for a while myself—I just assumed it was secret back then!
Freelancers Union, and National
Writers Union
Writers Union
October 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Freelancers Union, and National
Writers Union
Writers Union
Stet by Diana Athill, or does that not count because it's an editor memoir? Wasn't Korda an editor?
October 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Stet by Diana Athill, or does that not count because it's an editor memoir? Wasn't Korda an editor?
Definitely digital nomad from New York for a while.
October 7, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Definitely digital nomad from New York for a while.
Oh no, Michael! I'm so sorry!
October 2, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Oh no, Michael! I'm so sorry!
I was there last year and had a lovely dinner at a restaurant called Mediterraneaneo, whose owner turns out to have gone to Brooklyn Technical High School, where both my son and my father went.
September 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I was there last year and had a lovely dinner at a restaurant called Mediterraneaneo, whose owner turns out to have gone to Brooklyn Technical High School, where both my son and my father went.
Janette Sadik-Kahn!
September 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Janette Sadik-Kahn!
How did I not know you've written a middle-grade novel?! How exciting!
September 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
How did I not know you've written a middle-grade novel?! How exciting!
I don't think I've ever read a boxing novel before, but I really enjoyed this one!
August 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I don't think I've ever read a boxing novel before, but I really enjoyed this one!
That sounds like boxing, too. Have you read "The Slip" by Lucas Schaefer, set around a boxing gym in Austin?
August 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
That sounds like boxing, too. Have you read "The Slip" by Lucas Schaefer, set around a boxing gym in Austin?
He called Mamdani's apartment rent controlled when it's clearly rent stabilized.
August 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
He called Mamdani's apartment rent controlled when it's clearly rent stabilized.
They would say anyone who doesn't agree with them aren't really Jews. Or are bad Jews.
August 8, 2025 at 3:01 AM
They would say anyone who doesn't agree with them aren't really Jews. Or are bad Jews.
Highly recommend!
August 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Highly recommend!
Has she read Rose Tremain?
August 6, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Has she read Rose Tremain?
@owenrhysthomas.bsky.social is home for July and he's decluttering his Playmobils!
July 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
@owenrhysthomas.bsky.social is home for July and he's decluttering his Playmobils!
I'm printing this out and hanging it over my desk because I know I'm going to need it soon.
July 15, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I'm printing this out and hanging it over my desk because I know I'm going to need it soon.
And that was also my favorite piece.
July 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
And that was also my favorite piece.