Gerald Howard

Reading this from Grenada! Even people not born then "remember" this vividily here.

Thank you for writing this. I was a book editor for more than four decades and I knew Ann a bit and admired her more than a bit. It was and is a grand profession and, in my view, the care of writers and their work is at the very heart of it.

You could say that the United States is committing slow-motion suicide, but really, it isn't all that slow now. We have very little time -- Congress, nb. -- to come to our senses.

You could say that the United States is comitting slow-motion suicide, but really, it isn't all that slow now. We have very little time -- Congress, nb. -- to come to our senses.

Haven't had kidneys since, oh, 1967. My mother used to cook them with lamp chops and bacon, probably an Irish Catholic thing. "Inner organs of beasts and fowls" making a comeback! The Leopold Bloom Diet!

My wife and I had maybe our third meal together there in late 1982.

The brilliance that was Workman. Now destroyed under its new owner Hachette, of course.

This is going to keep happening, I am sorry to say.

Looks like someone who doesn't have a lot to lose, which is the way he writes as well, for better or worse.

Ann Godoff, a Top Editor and Publisher of Best Sellers, Dies at 76

A giant.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/b...

Talk about a question that answers itself!

Good lord, what's next, kinder gentler Visigoths, Vandals and Huns? Genghis Khan, civilizing influence?

If you'll expand this strategy to writing in all forms and modes, I'll sign on!

I've known her for many years and I myself benefited last year from the great imprint she created when Penguin Press published my own book. Such a huge loss to publishing and literary culture.

My parents, Brooklyn natives (as I am) loved this book and this movie equally. They always told me that "This was the way things were."

Sorry to hear that.

I think of those buildings as Bilionaires' Middle Fingers.

White Russians on me if I'm wrong.

Opinion | Jeffrey Epstein’s Academic Fixer How John Brockman, the most powerful man in science publishing, brokered Epstein’s access to academe.

Okay, finally -- finally! -- the dam has broken on the John Brockman portion of the sordid Jeffrey Epstein saga. There is much more to be said, as in from publishers who did all that business with Brockman and, by extension, Epstein -- but this is a good start.

www.chronicle.com/article/jeff...

The relative syntactical and narrative normality -- emphasis on the word "relative," of course -- of the text. A lot of his tweets are written by other hands, as is well known.

Saks Owner Says He Saved Department Stores. Never Mind the Bankruptcy.

Basically "We had to destroy the village in order to save it."

"The son [read "fail son"] of a successful real estate developer." God save us from the billionaire nepobabies. And for fuck's sake, put on some socks, wouldja?

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/b...

Just another little thing Bill Gates is gonna have to explain soon.

I was connected in a peripheral way to Colson Whitehead from the beginning of his career at Doubldeay. I want to let everyone know that he is not just a seriously sly literary genius, he is also a terrific guy -- funny and kind and lots of other good things.

Stair wit: I of course should have written "brain worm," not "mind virus."

This was very clearly not written by Trump, though.

My theory about his "change of mind" would take way too many characters to explain. But basically he thinks he's more American than the elites he used to run with because he comes from Minnesota and lives in Montana.

I was Walter Kirn's editor for UP IN THE AIR and three other books by him. He was terrifically smart and talented and I enjoyed working with him. But we parted ways and by degrees he has drifted into a very strange space, like he caught some mind virus from RFK Jr. I've seen him on Fox and it's wha?

You just made a sale. We've gone to St. Barth's for years, although we are in no sense rich. (Yay, Saline Gardens.) The beaches and the, well, Frenchness appealed. But last year was the last. Too many people, no place to park, an overwhelming sense of entitlement. In case you didn't know. . . .

Trying to imagine this in the seventies -- specifically what items of ill intent might have been packed into the snowballs.
NYC -- only the strong survived.