Jacob Sager Weinstein

The cover for a children's picture book entitled "I'm Sorry For The Bagel Burps: A Yom Kippur Apology," written by Jacob Sager Weinstein and illustrated by Jason Kirschner. The cover illustration shows a young boy sitting in synagogue with his older brother and his parents. A massive green burp cloud erupts from the young boy's mouth. He looks delighted, but the rest of his family looks horrified.

Here's the cover for my next picture book, which comes out in September 2026. It makes me laugh every time I look at it!

You can pre-order it at your local bookstore, or use one of the links here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/786426...
#kidlit

Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary:

His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”

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"First mate, permission to kiss my second mate."
"Make out so."

Genuinely, this may be the single best skeet on the subject.

Bertolt Brecht has gone too far this time

"Alas, poor Yaris. I knew him, Horatio."

"But soft! What light through yonder window... BRAKES!"

"Parking is such sweet sorrow..."

Years from now, people will contend that it actually hit Marlowe's house

Buster Keaton was born 130 years ago today, on October 4, 1895

My own reaction was more like Peter's; I would very happily have just skipped it. But obviously there's no right or wrong way to react to something so devastating! Shannon, I think it's genuinely beautiful that you found meaning in the experience.

Great podcast. I'm glad you guys are sharing this conversation.

My wife and I went through two miscarriages en route to our two kids. When we opened up to our friends, we discovered that a LOT of couples we knew had gone through it, too. But it just wasn't something people talked about.

MAZEL TOV!!!!!!!!

Man, I love London.
www.reddit.com/r/london/com...

MC, it's your cousin Marvin. Marvin Escher. You know that new style of graphic art you're looking for? Well, here it is!

[HOLDS PHONE UP TO THIS POST]

I read the most fascinating article on the placebo effect, but it turned out to just be a blank piece of paper.

"You’re alive to me!"

— zombie disowning their child

(Full disclosure: the author was my #PBChat mentee a few years ago so I am slightly biased but I honestly thought it was a great book!)

It's not the main focus of the book, but it's typical of the empathy Mangan brings to her characters.

The temptation is to make the parents wise and all-knowing, or utterly clueless, or purely evil. This is one of the best portrayals I've seen of a parent/child relationship where the parent is a decent human being whose approach to life just doesn't quite line up with their kids' needs.

The cover of MAEVE MULVANEY HAS HAD ENOUGH, by author Kelly Mangan.The cover illustration shows a teenage girl standing in a powerful pose in from of a middle school. In her hand, pages of a comic book she has drawn spread outward, forming the image of superheroes.

I just read MAEVE MULVANEY HAS HAD ENOUGH by @kellyamangan.bsky.social and it's a strong recommend. All the characters are nuanced and well observed, but I want to particularly single out the MC's relationship with her parents. It's very hard to get a realistic parent-child relationship in MG...

To you I say, happy Rube Goldberg and Neil Simon's birthday!

CONGRATULATIONS! (Belated but no less sincere-- I am trying to spend less time on social media but the downside is that I sometimes miss great news like this!)

To my American friends, happy Independence Day!

To my British friends, a very joyous Reason Donald Trump Can't Be Prime Minister Day!

*LIAM NEESON VOICE *
“I can smell ham at the limit of human possibility— a level that makes me a nightmare for people like you. Release my daughter, or I will find a way to sniff 801. Perhaps 802.”

This is a must read. It's great analysis and it's a great piece about what this does mean, and what it doesn't. Importantly, Kelly calls out that schools and teachers should not obey in advance by pulling LGBTQ+ books off the shelves.

Read and share, please!

That was a great episode! I would happily have @robsfactchecker.bsky.social on after every season to update the stats and discuss recent outliers (because obviously he isn’t doing enough free labor for the Survivor data nerd community already).

Good grief. Now THAT's what I call a library.