Lance Richardson

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Finished this morn, and while reading I periodically wondered if I was having a stroke, or experiencing that strange rush of meaningless-yet-meaningful images you get when returning to consciousness after passing out. Loved it.

It’s brilliant.

Great essay by @sarahweinman.com on del Toro's "Nightmare Alley," for Criterion.

Two book events this weekend! Both with exceptional writer friends.

Saturday in DC: Politics & Prose with @carlhoffman.bsky.social at 3pm. Details here: politics-prose.com/lance-richar...

Sunday in Providence: Riffraff with @francescawade.bsky.social at 6pm. Details here: riffraffpvd.com/events/

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

Had a brilliant event tonight at @thelynxbooks.bsky.social in Gainesville. Dreamy bookstore. The best.

In my obviously wrong because immigrant understanding, New York culture is that racist opportunists like Cuomo are beneath contempt — but hey, what do I know? Dumb dual citizen and all.

I too am a dual citizen and am sad to hear that it means I cannot possible “understand New York culture,” even though I lived there for seven years and wrote a book that was partly about New York (gay) culture.

I did! Dunn is excellent.

Why Biden’s White House Press Secretary Is Leaving the Democratic Party Karine Jean-Pierre feels that Democrats were so mean to Biden that she is becoming an Independent.

Brutal.

It's definitely 3pm! (And I'm seeing 3pm on the events pages and the calendar on my end here.)

Good lord, who cares? It is really not worth litigating this.

Amazing. He had a hell of a life.

Yes! But he was certainly not at Pearl Harbor for the bombing. And various other weird claims (including, as you note, the claim about the snow leopard being the only book known in the UK! Christopher MacLehose, his longtime editor in London, would have something to say).

From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.

Going to be a fun one. DC peeps, come out for it!

Right, but unless you read a guide there’s no way it’s 30 minutes.

One of many surprising errors in this piece to be honest!

Don’t accept the associated quest until you’re absolutely ready. Hours of pain.

The Australian Cartoonists Association welcomes the decision of the federal Attorney-General, Michelle aRowland, to reject the Productivity Commission’s proposal to exempt tech companies from copyright laws, which would have handed them free rein to mine creative content to train their Artificial Intelligence models, without recognition or recompense for artists. We are glad the Albanese Government recognises the value and precarious of the creative industries and encourage their ongoing support of artists in all fields. Cathy Wilcox President ACA

A statement from me, on behalf of the Australian Cartoonists Association:

I was at an event the other night and Kathleen Turner was there too, and when somebody told me I gasped, “Jessica Rabbit!” And they looked at me like I’d lost my mind.

God-tier movie.

Actually it is my favorite book of the year. Makes most contemporary American fiction look anemic and unimaginative by comparison.

B&W photo of Atwood at a desk in an empty room, typing

Margaret Atwood writing The Handmaid’s Tale, West Berlin, 1984

(Photo by Isolde Ohlbaum)

Enjoying this new Pynchon novel so much. It is exactly what I needed right now, highbrow nonsense.

The White House Building Every president since John Adams has occupied the White House, and the history of this building extends far beyond the construction of its walls. From the Ground Floor Corridor rooms, transformed from...

Open the page. Scroll down to the timeline. Go through the timeline.

It’s… shocking

This whole "getting reviewed in national and international publications" thing is bloody stressful.

The dangerous charm of Peter Matthiessen | The Spectator Australia In 1951, the American author Peter Matthiessen moved to Paris. The scion of a wealthy Wasp family, he had studied…

Reviewed in the Spectator UK. (Link here to the Australian edition, which has no paywall.)

“Impressive ... A rigorous and balanced account of this restless soul."

Talking tonight about Matthiessen, The Paris Review, the CIA, and various other things with @pgourevitch.bsky.social at the Leon Levy Center for Biography. Going to be a fun one.

Free in-person and livestream tickets here: www.leonlevycenterforbiography.com/events/lance...