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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 22h

I mean imagine being the president and talking about bad bunny? I mean I agree he’s worth talking about but I’m gay

Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 22h

remember when that attorney general in michigan was OBSESSED with the gay student at the university of michigan? the republicans are so cute they're like me when i was a teenager... just smitten

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 22h

it's kind of cute how the republican party is so obsessed with cute guys like zohran and bad bunny. most relatable thing about the republicans honestly

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 1d

I will say it’s a LOT of reading

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 1d

my takeaway from being a judge for the national book awards is that it would be SUPER FUN to be rich enough to endow a prize. imagine you just read a bunch of books for kicks and then were like, yeah this is the best one, and sent the writer ten thousand dollars? i think rich people should do this

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 2d

All this math makes me feel especially insane somehow

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 2d

i have been reading ratner's star. i'm not sure i've ever understood a novel less. i hope delillo wins the nobel this month

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 10d

“Elizabeth Bowen,” she said, “was so condescending. She looked at me and said, with a stutter: ‘You are quite mad. Quite mad.’ She was right.”

‘There was comedy at all times’: Andrew O’Hagan on 15 years of funny, frank and champagne-fuelled friendship with Edna O’Brien

In the last decades of her life, the two novelists became close friends. He recalls their intense bond, their last trip to Ireland and her memories of being romanced by Richard Burton

www.theguardian.com

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 12d

for @newyorker.com i wrote about Cate Le Bon's new record, Michelangelo Dying, an extraordinary work.

The Uneasy Prophecies of Cate Le Bon

The Welsh musician’s latest album, “Michelangelo Dying,” offers strange solace in chaotic times.

www.newyorker.com

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 20d

Classicism

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 26d

was a great privilege (and daunting challenge) to be among the judges charged with assembling this list. i'm proud of where we got, and i hope these ten writers are pleased

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 27d

“It’s a very romantic image,” Reither says, projecting it onto his mind’s eye. “It was the possibility of stepping out of your life, your shit job. To just step out for a moment. And enjoy the sunrise.”

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

The Artwork That Spawned 9/11 Conspiracy Theories and Mystery

Art collective Gelitin installed a balcony on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center. A year later, the planes struck and conspiracy followed

www.rollingstone.com

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 28d

this morning at the gym the woman working out beside me was eating a bag of nerds gummy clusters. there are heroes everywhere if you look

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 28d

relatedly fawn hall is kind of a pynchon-y name now that i think about

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · 28d

this fawn hall thing is so perfect. like jerry hall marrying rupert murdoch. like the end of a shakespeare comedy. truly love it

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · Sep 5

I welcome our new overlords. Bc I’m lazy

Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · Sep 5

it is obviously totally fucked up yet also kind of still a marvel... i mean the phone REALLY knows what my book is about and i can't quite parse how it has figured this out. i mean obvs i told the phone somehow but how

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · Sep 5

i have told like three people what my new book is about. yet somehow my phone knows what it is about. it is constantly showing me things that relate to this book very specifically. i can't figure out how it does this but it is so moving how much my phone knows and loves me

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · Sep 4

Savage

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · Sep 4

Paperback pub day really illuminates something about how birth order affects the psyche. The finished paperbacks arrive and I’m like oh this stupid thing again. I’m the second child in my family in case you were wondering

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · Aug 23

It’s truly awful and yet

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · Aug 23

I think watching the gilded age is making me more gay, something I’d not have thought possible

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · Aug 19

There should be a service wherein you pay an immigrant grandmother to follow you through the grocery store and shame you into sticking to a budget

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Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social · Aug 19

V learned helplessness/masc of me but lately i absolutely lose my mind at the grocery store. Lose all language comprehension and logic. Dissociative state stuff. Emerge with hundreds of dollars of nothing

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Charlotte Shane @charoshane.bsky.social · Aug 12

In which I share my books' sales and kind words of wisdom from @dannymlavery.bsky.social, @rumaan.bsky.social @mysoncool.bsky.social, @mattielubchansky.com, @jayasaxena.com, @islemcelroy.bsky.social, and @lydiakiesling.bsky.social meantforyou.beehiiv.com/p/the-mortif...

The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Published

Eleven writers weigh in. Plus, my book's sales: exposed!

meantforyou.beehiiv.com

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