Mark Sarvas

Yeah, there’s a much more obvious historical parallel, dude.

They will be warehousing people.

And treating them as objects.

These are concentration camps.

Mark Sarvas on Writing Novels That Can't Be Ignored Krisserin panics her way through a grad school application (wrong link, wrong deadline, wrong page numbers), while Kelton enters the querying trenches—19 Google Docs open, three agents contacted, and ...

In which I share some general thoughts on writing, agents, all that good stuff, with my dear friend and former student Krisserin Canary on her podcast PEN PALS:

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Beatles on Ed Sullivan, Feb 9, 1964

Happy Sullivan Day to those who observe.

Mark Sarvas on Writing Novels That Can't Be Ignored Krisserin panics her way through a grad school application (wrong link, wrong deadline, wrong page numbers), while Kelton enters the querying trenches—19 Google Docs open, three agents contacted, and ...

In which I share some general thoughts on writing, agents, all that good stuff, with my dear friend and former student Krisserin Canary on her podcast PEN PALS:

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I am completely in love with this thing, use it every day.

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No ICE at the Super Bowl.

None. Zero.

Oy. A brand new Atlantic byline I have to learn to ignore ...

Bradley's: An Oral History of a Hallowed Hang - JazzTimes Staffers, patrons, and players remember Bradley's, a Greenwich Village saloon that kept its doors open to jazz musicians at any hour of the day or night.

Stumbled across this, a sheer delight. I used to arrive at Bradley's for the 10 pm set and stay through the 2 am set. What legends I saw, mere feet away. Tommy Flanagan, Cedar Walton, Benny Green, John Hicks - an endless list. My favorite club of them all.

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Take the D train Will Metro’s Wilshire Boulevard line be our public-transit turning point?

Thanks to @lareported.bsky.social for giving me the space to think through @metrolosangeles.bsky.social's D Line Extension, due to open in the next few months.

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Jeff Bezos makes enough money to fully fund this literally every two minutes.

The face of evil.

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

To everyone setting up camp at Substack, this issue has never gone away.

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One last time for those who didn’t spy it earlier.

Parker and his fellow heisters never bother to take the coins.

But if he’d just grabbed 12 quarters he could buy this book. An absolute steal.

Staffer my ass, you lying old fuck.

This fucking animal.

So how about every question from the press is "When will the president apologize for his disgusting racism and also resign?" and they just keep asking that, and only that, till he does both (though I'll be fine with just the latter)?

A good time to remind you that "Drax" is also the villain's name in MOONRAKER ...

Not sure you would accept “Sunday” here but if so that’s my choice. If not, then Guys and Dolls.

Outside in the evening. An office building with video and the words "Palantir Powers Fascism" projected at top. Below, a crowd of people with signs and candles memorializing people who have died at the hands of ICE.

Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #AbolishICE #ICEOut #Palantir #PaloAlto

The glibness with which these people are dismissing what is, fundamentally, an extensive record of elite atrocities makes me think it’s better if I don’t finish this sentence

Maybe a la The Princess Bride, it needs a "good parts" version ...

I have no doubt! Maybe in a few years, when I feel a bit less raw ...

Oof. Had no idea. Will pass on it, thanks.

Is that streak unique to The Season (haven't read) or does it resemble Adventures in the Screen Trade (which I love)?

A bus stop near Tesla's flagship store in London. Imagine a Super Bowl ad that showed only this.

Such hectic drek.

I’ve Been Laid Off. I’m Not Done. After 20 years at The Washington Post, I’m suddenly on my own — and still writing about books.

After 20 years, I've been laid off at The Washington Post.
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Truly sorry, my friend. Raising a glass in your direction.

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