Rakesh Satyal

I'm Michael Hobbes, yes, that Michael Hobbes from If Books Could Kill. I help run our little corner of chaos where 69,000 readers, writers, and mildly obsessive book nerds gather to talk about the stories that shape (and sometimes ruin) our brains. I picked up your book reminding us that and honestly.. I didn't stand a chance. The humanity, the humility, the sheer scope of what you do, it's staggering. You somehow make your topic feel both epic and intimate, conclusion of book We don't reach out to every author, mostly because l'm lazy, but your writing grabbed me by the collar. We'd love to feature you in our next author section, where our readers and listeners connect directly with the storytellers and thinkers who make us rethink what "impact" really means. Would you be interested if we chose your book for our next section? Thanks for making my week with your work. I promise this isn't one of those "team emails", it's really just me, geeking out in your inbox.

Scam alert: Someone is pretending to be me and reaching out to authors. The pitch contains enough specific details that it sounds plausible at first.

This is not me! I'm so sorry to anyone who has fallen for this.

Trump Sent Them to a Notorious Prison. Torture Followed. Podcast Episode · The Daily · 12/08/2025 · 37m

This 37 minute episode of the Daily is the most harrowing, infuriating piece of reporting I’ve heard in a long time. Everyone needs to listen to it. A sane country would be debating only the length of the prison terms of the people who did this to these men. We just moved to the next scandal.

I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*

I would like the phrase and concept of "common decency" to make a comeback

these are so clearly only controlled by humans it’s astounding how much everyone gives elon musk for lying to everyone all the time about everything

If you all will allow me a three-years-post-publication book boast, my beloved acquiring editor @rakeshsatyal.bsky.social just spotted this on Instagram. Anne Hathaway is reading & recommending Camera Man? 👠

danielbdaylewis 2/2 and thrown in the dirt • 251 Liked by ramirez14170 and others danielbdaylewis Paul Dano is one of the best and most talented actors of his generation.

Daniel Day Lewis came out of Instagram retirement to show support for Paul Dano. King shit.

Yet again—this was the supporting performance of the year, and it’s a damn shame the Golden Globes overlooked it

This is why yall have to stop laughing at things because you can tell someone is TRYING TO BE funny, and only laugh at things that actually make you involuntarily laugh. The stakes are too high for polite or status laughter.

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without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law.

revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.

👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

Tis true! ❤️

Every single one of these writers is a genius. Do not pass up this opportunity!

Yola goes absolutely bananas, every single time.

I still think this is the supporting performance of the year

Taste

Omg I just met Jonathan Bailey

A decomposing president who is easily fooled and is only running on his cruel and self-serving instincts is the ideal puppet of the wealth and oligarchical classes interested in dismantling government and requiring widespread oppression to continue hoarding resources.

As ever... the vast, vast majority of people don't want the hellscape the right is forcing on us. they really are the minority viewpoint. vocal? yes. powerful? unfortunately, yes. But there are so many more people who don't want to live in the world they're trying to make.

All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences

What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.

THANK YOU

Person in front of me on the plane Googling "Why don't people get lost in the Bermuda Triangle anymore"

Girl, now is not the time.........

Charli and twigs doing press together.. I mean I did know her that is our paths did cross

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

Fun lunch with Mom today ❤️

Kids, put down the GOO GOO DOLLS and pick up the MICHELLE BRANCH

It just keeps happening

DEPARTMENT Homeland Security @DHSgov The stakes have never been higher, and the goal has never been more clear: Remigration now.

‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse