Alexander Chee

#4: Move (Get out the Gym) feat. Zito Madu Sports is exercise with benefits

A friend just reminded me that I’ve been trying to tell nerds that they should play a sport for decades now. I even did a podcast episode about it recently.

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💖 it was actually just a paragraph or two of Queen at the time. It was crazy. Thank you for calling my essay collection a classic. Much love to you!

Unbelievable!

Trump Monitored Iran Strikes From Mar-a-Lago Resort While Surrounded By Thin Curtains

I'm sure they were all at Mar a Lago, listening through the curtains. www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

Lovely.

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Oh no. Ok.

So people are turning on him?

Oh, lovely.

84% of the time, “ChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised

Right?

Ex-ur-een?

Other old family names on my mom’s side that I like but never run into: Wave and Mehitabel.

The extra syllable seems important.

I mean, I’ve had to spell my last name for over 50 years.

Thank you!

I thought I’d post about her name, Exerene, as I never see or meet anyone with this name, and who knows? Maybe it’s time for more Exerenes.

Fort Jabalia: Fourteen ways of looking at white Evergreen Review

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My brother and his partner are expecting a baby girl and there’s been a discussion of names. My mother brought up my great aunt, who she loved dearly: Exerene, a name I love also. Exerene practiced poetic recitation, memorizing and performing poetry. We’ll see but my fingers are crossed.

Going to have to travel to a city where it's playing but I will do this the way things are going.

You should sue whoever told you this.

It’s called a functioning spinal column. Thank you @scoutingamerica.bsky.social.

Tech execs provide their kids with liberal arts education to ensure their futures—-all while many state schools are becoming all STEM. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

"Seeks revenge" is a bizarre way to describe "suing over discrimination".

The Platner pattern of getting caught doing something Nazi-adjacent, huffily disavowing it and then doing another wink-wink nudge-nudge signal to the extreme right is pretty much the Trump 2016 playbook

Since this is a response to me, I’ll respond back: I don’t think I can sink Platner that way. I think he’s definitely going to be the Democratic nominee and likely the next Senator. And that means both parties no longer have taboos against candidates who associate with Nazis, and that scares me!

it is weird to know the peak of success as a content creator is "many brand deals and a podcast with multiple advertisers" while I was taught in journalism school how some reporters do not drink coffee at press events to avoid conflicts of interests

Also her newer story "My Duck Is Your Duck."

Y’all, please nominate—it’s so very helpful to everyone: the authors, the jury, the foundation, and to readers

The indie publisher Tyrant Books is returning, under new ownership. Independent publishing great Tyrant Books—which has been dormant since its founder Giancarlo DiTrapano’s death in 2021—is coming back. As Publisher’s Marketplace reports, author and screenwri…

Tyrant Books is back.