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book critic. adjunct professor. Immigrant (Peruvian-American-Fighting Irish).

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    14 Nov 2017

    If you read only one book... you really should read more books.

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    1 hour ago

    TLDR. Literally.

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  3. 1 hour ago

    "It is the hour for Americans to stand up for the first amendment and to stand against the Foxes and Sinclairs. They should also stand with the Washington Post." --

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    2 hours ago

    Kevin Williamson has been fired from The Atlantic. From Jeffrey Goldberg's letter to staff: "The language he used in this podcast—and in my conversations with him in recent days—made it clear that the original tweet did, in fact, represent his carefully considered views."

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  5. 2 hours ago

    , the new editor of :

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  6. 2 hours ago

    "Trump's feud with Amazon is really about the Washington Post's success." Read this column in the :

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  7. 2 hours ago

    Jeff Bezos "has entrusted the running of the paper to Marty Baron, hired by the former publisher Katharine Weymouth, whose contributions to safeguarding her inheritance have been insufficiently credited and appreciated."

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  8. 3 hours ago

    Just came up with the perfect kicker, and now I fiercely resent the fact that I must write the full piece that gets me there

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    5 hours ago

    Da'Fuck, a podcast where I ride the trains and read other people's pages and screens over their shoulders, read excerpts out loud and then critique.

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  10. 5 hours ago

    So many great writers among the new Guggenheim recipients: Delighted to see , author of WHITE Rage, and NYU historian Martha Hodes, whose book MOURNING LINCOLN I reviewed three years ago, on the list.

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  11. 5 hours ago

    Thread for the Catholic Left -->

    Earlier this morning, seven Catholic peace activists were apparently detained at or inside the Kings Bay Naval Base in Georgia, a port for our nuclear-armed submarines. (This is according to the activists' support team, & has not been confirmed with police or the U.S. military.)
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  12. 6 hours ago

    Five years ago today I wrote this piece about all those books declaring the "end" of something. Somehow, people continue to write and publish them. Never ends.

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  13. 6 hours ago

    Of all the Lego characters and creatures and communities populating every corner of my house right now, I can imagine none better than these.

    Can someone pleas get me these Legos right now???
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  14. Apr 4

    Coming April 17... GOD SAVE TEXAS: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State, by &

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  15. Apr 4

    "It was more than a little rich that a soldier who made his intellectual reputation as a truth-teller should become a stooge of the most mendacious US president in history."

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  16. Apr 4

    The word "deftly" is at its best in book reviews

    Where would the word "deftly" be without book reviews to keep it occupied?
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  17. Apr 4

    "The original critics... could not distinguish between the book's narrator and its author." An extraordinary Janet Malcolm review of Norman Podhoretz's 1967 memoir MAKING IT, recently reissued as a New York Review Books classic:

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    Apr 3

    So there was a MYSTERY at the library today. A wee old women came in and said "I've a question. Why does page 7 in all the books I take out have the 7 underlined in pen? It seems odd." "What?" I say, thinking she might be a bit off her rocker. She showed me, and they did.

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  19. Apr 3

    You could almost call that failure a dereliction of duty

    "We have failed to impose sufficient costs" on Russia -- H.R. McMaster in his last public remarks as National Security Advisor, in a speech at the Atlantic Council.
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  20. Apr 3

    Where’s the after party?

    I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!
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    Apr 3

    First Book Critic.

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