David Grann

Please @stevenhyden.bsky.social and Ian Cohen keep doing the wonderful Indiecast podcast. I will be your first paid subscribe!

As the NYTimes put it in a wonderful review of her new book Without Consent, @sarahweinman.com "is the rare true-crime writer who rises above the genre’s inherent voyeurism to interrogate our moral, cultural and legal failings." I just purchased my copy.

Skip Hollandsworth is a treasure of a writer, and as a longstanding member of his cult of readers I’m thrilled to see he has a new collection of his work out.

A belated but huge congratulations to @calebgayle.bsky.social for the release of his superb work of history, which was longlisted for the National Bool Award!

@stevenhyden.bsky.social I'm so late to discovering the writing & music criticism of Steven Hyden. What a wonderful writer, who has impeccable taste. Highly recommend his work in @uproxx.bsky.social and Indiecast podcast with @iancohen.bsky.social

Yes. I suspect a relationship but elusive to prove.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

It’s a great day for readers who love richly reported, rollicking history. Congrats to @jonathanmahler.bsky.social on his brilliant new book out today!

Thanks for reading it. Hope you like it.

There is so much to read but don’t miss this supremely well-researched and powerful new book by Haley Cohen Gilliland called “A Flower Traveled in My Blood.” Very grateful to have finally read it. This is an excellent review.

The First Ever Sighting of a Colossal Squid An expedition spotted a baby of the species in the South Sandwich Islands. This cephalopod can grow to more than 20 feet and has proved elusive in its deep-sea environs.

Kraken alert! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/s...

I have the privilege of talking to @elongreen.bsky.social abt his extraordinary new book, "The Man Nobody Killed," at @barnesandnoble.com on 82nd and Broadway in NYC on March 20 at 7 p.m. If you have any questions you want me to ask him, send them along. stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006...

Congrats @elongreen.bsky.social on the publication of his new book—an extraordinary contribution to our collective memory.

Rifling Through the Archives With Legendary Historian Robert Caro Reams of papers, revealing how the scholar came to write his iconic biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson, are preserved forever in New York. But his work is far from over

My kind of breaking news: Robert Caro on next installment of his LBJ biography: “Well, I’ll tell you what pages I’m up to—951.” www.smithsonianmag.com/history/rifl...

Philly friends, I’ll be at B&N tonight talking about The Wager. Hope some of you can make it. www.eventbrite.com/e/david-gran...

Friends in Chicago, I'll be there this Monday night at the University Club in conversation with the great Peter Sagal. Hope to see some of you there. www.eventbrite.com/e/david-gran...

The paperback of The Wager comes out in less than two weeks, and I'll be on tour for several events and hope to see some of you there, with limes to ward off scurvy.

Definitely.

“Game Plan,” by Don DeLillo Fiction, from 1971: “Here before our cubicles we sit quietly, content to suck the sweet flesh out of quartered oranges.”

What to read on Super Bowl day: "Game Plan"--a @newyorker.com classic by the master Don DeLillo www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...

Newly Declassified Files Offer a Rare Glimpse of Britain's Greatest Traitor The K.G.B. mole Kim Philby fooled the highest ranks of the M.I.6 for decades.

Fascinating piece by Ben Macintyre on newly declassified files on the treasonous spy Kim Philby
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How a Diagnosis of Shaken Baby Syndrome Could Send Innocent Parents to Jail The controversial medical diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome can send parents to jail. What if the symptoms are caused by something else?

🚨NEW PAM COLLOFF STORY🚨

Yes, an adaptation is in the works!

So funny. Thanks for heads up.

Farewell twitter. Hello Bluesky. May it be a saner journey.