Megan Lynch

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

I don't have a good answer for what the alternative looks like, but asking 18 years to bet their future on highly specified training for jobs based on which they think will be in high demand 5-10 years from now turned out to be a very bad way to structure higher education

Review: Alcatraz is home to the last remaining zoo in Emma Sloley’s resilient ‘The Island of Last Things’ Alcatraz zookeepers refuse to give up even as species are dying in Emma Sloley's 'The Island of Last Things,' a resilient novel set in the future.

For the @latimes.com, I wrote about @emmasloley.bsky.social's wonderful new book, "The Island of Last Things," which was beautiful, bittersweet, bleak, and hopeful, somehow all at the same time:

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Two actors find themselves way over their heads in Alexis Soloski’s and Dan Fesperman’s excellent thrillers.

@flatironbooks.bsky.social

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A Drama Teacher on the Run From a Lurid Past and a Risky Present

SO thrilled with this rave review of Alexis Soloski’s marvelous new thriller FLASHOUT:

Not to brag, but tonight when we sat down to dinner, my child sighed and said, “Mom, you order the best pizza.”

people should read “Careless People"

Federal court says copyrighted books are fair use for AI training Anthropic didn’t break the law when it trained its chatbot with copyrighted books, a judge said, but it must go to trial for allegedly using pirated books.

I once had a fight with my publisher's lawyer over what constitutes "fair use." He said reprinting 4 lines of a poem without the poet's explicit permission was too much. But AI gobbling up whole books now counts as "fair use." Something is definitely wrong with US copyright law.

Or Big Swiss!

Everyone, please stop what you're doing and read CARELESS PEOPLE. Facebook messing around with global diplomacy and human rights should be a warning about Big AI wearing a mask of geniality and happy progress.

That Cup of Coffee May Have a Longer-Term Perk

🎶 I’m gonna live forever 🎶 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/w...

Been waiting for you to say this!

Didn’t think grown men in fleece vests were such a thing outside of Billions until I became a Metro North commuter.

Right?!

Please do 🤞

But “mars isn’t even mid” just cracked me up

The Best Books of the Year (So Far)

Careless People is one of the best books of the year so far. Have you read it yet?: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/b...

My dad sent me this photo

Not lapsed enough to not care about this yet 🤷‍♀️

This is WAY funnier if you’ve read Careless People

Congratulations ❤️

The way I just shrieked opening my mail.

Macmillan Publishers and Flatiron Books salute Sarah Wynn-Williams, the author of Careless People, for her brave testimony at today's Senate hearing. The investigation by the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism and their confirmation that they have reviewed records corroborating claims made in the book are incredibly validating. You can read the subcommittee's letter to Mark Zuckerberg at the link in our bio.

What the Comfort Class Doesn’t Get People with generational wealth control a society that they don’t understand.

This piece is worth reading. It discusses the meaninglessness of the term "middle class" and how the "comfort class," which can be read as the "elites" MAGA folks are railing against fundamentally misunderstands its own classism. Made me reconsider my own position www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

What the Comfort Class Doesn’t Get People with generational wealth control a society that they don’t understand.

Xochitl Gonzalez’s theory of the Comfort Class: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

'Careless People' author Sarah Wynn-Williams will testify at a Senate hearing next week Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former Facebook policy director behind a best-selling memoir about her time at the company, will testify at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing next week.

'Careless People' author Sarah Wynn-Williams will testify at a Senate hearing next week

#engadget

main Books page of People magazine, with a picture of me

this is a jump out of reality for me

My review of WILD DARK SHORE by Charlotte McConaghy is in today’s New York Times Book Review! A fantastic novel.