Nathan Deuel

Living legend

I originally pitched that exact concept but in a way can you truly capture lightning in a bottle?

College Radio Keeps Its Cool

I love college radio and I wrote about my favorite station for The New York Times... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...

What are people's favorite college radio stations? Emphasis on non-commercial, non-NPR, music-focused. cc: @whetmoser.com

Hey mom, I’m in the paper!

My Secret for Finding Peace in Traffic

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/m...

My Secret for Finding Peace in Traffic

I wrote about the way I drive now, which is slow, for the New York Times Mag: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/m...

Oops forgot about this place again

YES. You are very kind to even write me at all!

A line I just re-encountered: "'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part."

Sometimes I am confused by the people of Los Angeles. Then I remember that everyone is stoned, is something I first thought to myself in 2014

I forgot this place existed, ooops

Vibe

Attack of the 75-Foot Roving Mud Puddle A pool of sludge is wreaking havoc on road infrastructure near the Salton Sea.

Alert! Roving mud puddle terrorizing a little corner of California via @themorningnews.org www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a...

It used to be so depressing when really lazy students used Wikipedia. Now that seems so quaint

If you have any questions, call (334) 844-4244

Nations clash, rulers spied, a man ate a human heart. Everyone watched a bullfight. We, aghast, furiously tried to polish a beautiful stone

If "Smooth" by Santa feat Rob Thomas was the only song you could ever hear again would you give up on music entirely or listen forever to Smooth by Santa feat Rob Thomas???

A genuine thrill in midlife in Los Angeles is moving over for a motorcycle on the freeway and having that motorcyclist lower a hand and give you a cool acknowledgment for how cool you are

Sayaka Murata’s Alien Eye The author of “Convenience Store Woman” has gained a cult following by seeing the ordinary world as science fiction.

My favorite mag writer (Elif Batuman) profiling my favorite newish-to-me novelist (Murata) is fucking RADDDDD: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The 30 best nonfiction books of the last 30 years To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best nonfiction books since the festival was inaugurated.

And I wrote up three of the 'LA Times' picks for best nonfiction, including Finnegan's 'Barbarian Days,' Laymon's 'Heavy,' and Smith's 'Just Kids' - super fun and challenging to portray each of these four masterpieces in 100 words: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

The 30 best fiction books of the last 30 years To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best fiction books since the festival was inaugurated.

Check out how the 'LA Times' packages the 30 best novels of the last 30 years. (I wrote up their pick for Number One): www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

I did a really hard thing

It's bad but it's gonna get so much worse

In 11 years of riding the bus in Los Angeles I’ve never seen someone read a paper copy of the New York Times. Today is that day.

Nuked our Amazon Prime and embracing the challenge of sourcing all the crap I always buy so easily

Wish I still worked at The Village Voice c. 2005

I just learned that there is a thing called a holistic dentist

Such a great movie! That rain coat is such a character

Before these fuckers do something truly no turn back horrible isn’t it time for some sort of complete national strike?