Oona Patrick
@oonapatrick.bsky.social
Writer of essays and memoir #cnf. I get mad about books a lot. Reskeeting cheese news and good birds. Summers: Disquiet Int'l, Lisbon 🇵🇹. she/her https://linktr.ee/oonapatrick
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We just published a really excellent feature on this with some sample answers depending on how snarky you want to be 🙂↕️
November 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
We just published a really excellent feature on this with some sample answers depending on how snarky you want to be 🙂↕️
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Ok #BookSky It's Friday night and we're a bookstore gearing up for the holiday shopping season, AMA about bookstores, publishing, books, whatever.
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Ok #BookSky It's Friday night and we're a bookstore gearing up for the holiday shopping season, AMA about bookstores, publishing, books, whatever.
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Exclusive investigation: A 2020 Harvard report detailing Jeffrey Epstein’s long relationship with the university didn't mention a major gift that the late financier helped broker for Larry Summers' wife. trib.al/tHKZC11
Correction: We deleted a previous version of this post due to an error.
Correction: We deleted a previous version of this post due to an error.
Harvard reported millions in donations linked to Epstein. But it didn’t mention a major gift to Larry Summers’ wife. - The Boston Globe
Harvard announced a new review of those with university ties who are also mentioned in the recently released Epstein emails.
trib.al
November 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Exclusive investigation: A 2020 Harvard report detailing Jeffrey Epstein’s long relationship with the university didn't mention a major gift that the late financier helped broker for Larry Summers' wife. trib.al/tHKZC11
Correction: We deleted a previous version of this post due to an error.
Correction: We deleted a previous version of this post due to an error.
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PLEASE tell every author you know about this!
Authors beware: ClaimsHero is urging authors to opt out of the Anthropic settlement in order to file their own separate lawsuit. Except this outfit has no federal or state court experience with class-action suits. And the judge has called them a fraud.
Predatory Opt-Out Scheme ClaimsHero Targets Anthropic Settlement Participants: What Authors Need to Know - The Authors Guild
In recent weeks, a third-party law firm, ClaimsHero, has launched an aggressive online campaign urging authors to opt out of the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright settlement. ClaimsHero—which has no litiga...
authorsguild.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
PLEASE tell every author you know about this!
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As somebody situated in that exact cultural space at that time, this is *mind blowingly accurate.* The landscape is SO different, it feels like remembering a parallel universe.
November 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
As somebody situated in that exact cultural space at that time, this is *mind blowingly accurate.* The landscape is SO different, it feels like remembering a parallel universe.
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OREGON: ...
NANTUCKET: ... why do you keep staring at us?
OREGON: we have an idea
NANTUCKET: ... why do you keep staring at us?
OREGON: we have an idea
A dead sperm whale has washed up on Nantucket for the first time in decades. It’s too big to move — at least until officials figure out a plan.
Dead Sperm Whale on Nantucket Is Too Big to Move, for Now
A local nonprofit said the 52-ton mammal is “far too big, awkward and heavy to remove.” A town official later said it could be dragged out to sea by Thanksgiving.
nyti.ms
November 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
OREGON: ...
NANTUCKET: ... why do you keep staring at us?
OREGON: we have an idea
NANTUCKET: ... why do you keep staring at us?
OREGON: we have an idea
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I am so obsessed with what every other country packages as "American," which seems to be classified by a sense of ostentatiousness more than anything
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I am so obsessed with what every other country packages as "American," which seems to be classified by a sense of ostentatiousness more than anything
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Ok, however much you've thought about this Nuzzi business, I promise I've thought about it more.
newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/note...
newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/note...
Notes on Your American Canto Draft
I read it. Everyone deserves a good editor, even people who don’t get one. Olivia, Thank you so much for this. I’m impressed with the scope of your ambition...
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November 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Ok, however much you've thought about this Nuzzi business, I promise I've thought about it more.
newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/note...
newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/note...
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Stop laying off copy editors and then complaining about errors and lack of reader trust challenge
November 20, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Stop laying off copy editors and then complaining about errors and lack of reader trust challenge
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A train crew found a loose chicken on an N train this morning—and couldn’t get it to leave.
Loose chicken fouls N train as subway stowaway slows morning commute
A loose chicken gave new meaning to “free range,” scoring a gratis subway ride to Coney Island on the N train Thursday morning after it was discovered fouling a subway car in storage.
www.nydailynews.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
A train crew found a loose chicken on an N train this morning—and couldn’t get it to leave.
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
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THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
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Proud to be repped by the same agency as one of my favorite cheeses @peter23.bsky.social www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Hollywood’s Cheesiest New Star? Parmigiano Reggiano Reportedly Signed By UTA for Film and TV Placement
The agency will reportedly work with the Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium to get "the king of cheeses" product placement in Hollywood projects.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Proud to be repped by the same agency as one of my favorite cheeses @peter23.bsky.social www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
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❄️WINTER READING SALE ❄️
We’re running a winter sale on our website until 11.59 p.m. GMT on 19 December, with a 30 per cent discount across our website, including Fiction, Essay, Classics and Poetry titles, subscriptions, collections and tote bags.
❄️
Shop now: bit.ly/4oRFpxc
We’re running a winter sale on our website until 11.59 p.m. GMT on 19 December, with a 30 per cent discount across our website, including Fiction, Essay, Classics and Poetry titles, subscriptions, collections and tote bags.
❄️
Shop now: bit.ly/4oRFpxc
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
❄️WINTER READING SALE ❄️
We’re running a winter sale on our website until 11.59 p.m. GMT on 19 December, with a 30 per cent discount across our website, including Fiction, Essay, Classics and Poetry titles, subscriptions, collections and tote bags.
❄️
Shop now: bit.ly/4oRFpxc
We’re running a winter sale on our website until 11.59 p.m. GMT on 19 December, with a 30 per cent discount across our website, including Fiction, Essay, Classics and Poetry titles, subscriptions, collections and tote bags.
❄️
Shop now: bit.ly/4oRFpxc
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We've never been so proud to be misaligned! Your support keeps us doing the thing this administration sees as a threat and a disruption.
We could do this forever. Stay the course with us by making a tax deductible donation at the link in our bio! 🔥
We could do this forever. Stay the course with us by making a tax deductible donation at the link in our bio! 🔥
November 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
We've never been so proud to be misaligned! Your support keeps us doing the thing this administration sees as a threat and a disruption.
We could do this forever. Stay the course with us by making a tax deductible donation at the link in our bio! 🔥
We could do this forever. Stay the course with us by making a tax deductible donation at the link in our bio! 🔥
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But you must look at this matter in every light.
November 18, 2025 at 1:47 AM
But you must look at this matter in every light.
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Ravi Coutinho needed mental health and addiction care. Getting it through his insurance network was nearly impossible. He texted his friends:
“Therapists have been 0-4.”
“Called ten places and nothing.”
“The insurance portal doesn’t know shit.”
(Published Sept. 2024)
“Therapists have been 0-4.”
“Called ten places and nothing.”
“The insurance portal doesn’t know shit.”
(Published Sept. 2024)
“I Don’t Want to Die”: Needing Mental Health Care, He Got Trapped in His Insurer’s Ghost Network
Ravi Coutinho bought a health insurance plan thinking it would deliver on its promise of access to mental health providers. But even after 21 phone calls and multiple hospitalizations, no one could fi...
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Ravi Coutinho needed mental health and addiction care. Getting it through his insurance network was nearly impossible. He texted his friends:
“Therapists have been 0-4.”
“Called ten places and nothing.”
“The insurance portal doesn’t know shit.”
(Published Sept. 2024)
“Therapists have been 0-4.”
“Called ten places and nothing.”
“The insurance portal doesn’t know shit.”
(Published Sept. 2024)
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Eastern European dissidents became experts in authoritarian takeovers, and authoritarians, of all kinds. What lessons can Americans learn from them?https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/VEz7Vj
How to Endure Authoritarianism
A visit to a poet’s home in Kraków recalls the lessons of Eastern Europe’s dissidents.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 18, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Eastern European dissidents became experts in authoritarian takeovers, and authoritarians, of all kinds. What lessons can Americans learn from them?https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/VEz7Vj
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Sourcebooks is the fifth-largest trade publisher as measured by print books sold, breaking the dominance of the biggest conglomerates for the first time since Bookscan started>
lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/11/sour...
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Sourcebooks Cracks the Big Five - Publishers Lunch
For the first time in decades, there’s a challenge to the hegemony of the biggest trade publishers in the US. As Sourcebooks continues to grow, it is now the fifth largest publisher in the country by ...
lunch.publishersmarketplace.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Sourcebooks is the fifth-largest trade publisher as measured by print books sold, breaking the dominance of the biggest conglomerates for the first time since Bookscan started>
lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/11/sour...
lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/11/sour...
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Imagine being the one who had to edit this shit. Then going back to your tiny apartment, heating up a burrito, and crying over the draft of your novel until it has returned to wood pulp.
November 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Imagine being the one who had to edit this shit. Then going back to your tiny apartment, heating up a burrito, and crying over the draft of your novel until it has returned to wood pulp.
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there's a lady who i wouldn't say is unhinged but is maybe only medium-hinged down there trying to coach the whale lol. just screaming at her from shore. YOU CAN DO IT!!! MOVE THAT TAIL!!! CMON WHALE!!! i'm not sure that's helping but it probably doesn't hurt either
November 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
there's a lady who i wouldn't say is unhinged but is maybe only medium-hinged down there trying to coach the whale lol. just screaming at her from shore. YOU CAN DO IT!!! MOVE THAT TAIL!!! CMON WHALE!!! i'm not sure that's helping but it probably doesn't hurt either
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she says the level 1 whale disentanglement training is online so if anybody wants to get level 1 whale disentanglement certified they can. i sure want to, going to be looking into this very strongly
November 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
she says the level 1 whale disentanglement training is online so if anybody wants to get level 1 whale disentanglement certified they can. i sure want to, going to be looking into this very strongly
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a mysterious man known only as "The Whale Whisperer" has arrived and is standing in the surf. everyone kind of parted to let him through. who the hell is this lol
November 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
a mysterious man known only as "The Whale Whisperer" has arrived and is standing in the surf. everyone kind of parted to let him through. who the hell is this lol