Laurie Muchnick

I'm sorry to hear it!

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.

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.

Got phone surveyed about next year's primary by Dan Goldman's team today. He's worried about Brad Lander running. As he should be.

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!

Freelancers Union, and National
Writers Union

LIZ!

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.

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.

Janette Sadik-Kahn!

How did I not know you've written a middle-grade novel?! How exciting!

Welcome!

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?

He called Mamdani's apartment rent controlled when it's clearly rent stabilized.

Also, anyone who doesn't know the difference between rent controlled and rent stabilized has no business running for mayor of New York.

Yup.

They would say anyone who doesn't agree with them aren't really Jews. Or are bad Jews.

Highly recommend!

Has she read Rose Tremain?

@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.

And that was also my favorite piece.

I was there today, too!

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Liz Lopatto nails the problem with the NYT. It's been sucking up to the right for years but it's only getting worse.

i keep thinking about how monumental what we are contending with is, as a project. it’s congress & electoral politics; it’s the judiciary; and it’s what passes for mainstream media outlets at the moment. anyway, this is a good thread about the misguided and reactionary policies of the times 👇🏻