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@CarlosLozadaWP

book critic. Immigrant/Peru. Domer. Former editor. Author, WHAT WERE WE THINKING: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era.

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    Sep 3

    For the 20th anniversary of 9/11, I read/re-read 21 books about the run-up to the attacks, the day itself, and the wars that followed, from 2002 to a few published last month. I tried to understand what America’s response revealed about us. Here it is: (1)

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    Dec 21

    Hay feria de libro en la cdra 2 de Risso en Lince

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  3. Retweeted
    Dec 20

    Here’s a bit of writing advice I often share with students: engineers don’t look at a bridge the same way pedestrians or drivers do. The former understand the bridge as a language of angles and load bearing structures. Writers should read books in that same way.

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  4. Dec 20

    Can’t have an announcement about without a reference to the “folkways” of Washington! (But thank you for not tweeting about your “next adventure.”)

    I am told there is an audience on Twitter for media people tweeting professional news about themselves to other media people // Mark Leibovich Joining <em>The Atlantic</em> as Staff Writer
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  5. Dec 20

    What auto-fills when you type “insurrection” into the ⁦⁩ search field...

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  6. Dec 20

    “Leibovich is currently working on a sequel to This Town, about Washington during the Trump years. He will begin writing full time for The Atlantic in April.”

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  7. Dec 19

    “A Watkins Elementary School staff member told third-graders in library class to reenact scenes from the Holocaust, directing them to dig their classmates’ mass graves and simulate shooting the victims.... The instructor was placed on leave Friday.”

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    Dec 17

    I was feeling kind of blah about the holidays this year, but then I made myself an ornament of all the books I read in 2021. Nothing like a bookish craft to get you in the spirit!

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  9. Dec 19

    Please post the reading list!

    Are you a student ? Last chance to sign up for the course that and I are teaching on the history, politics, problems of Democracy, !
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  10. Dec 18

    “If the employees are successful, Politics and Prose would be among the first bookstores in the District to unionize, in an industry where unions historically have been rare but are starting to take hold.” On the ⁦⁩ unionization effort:

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    Dec 18

    I really enjoyed 's survey of 150 Trump-era political books "What Were We Thinking" but felt compelled to write about his exclusion of left-wing thought.

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  12. Dec 18

    Finally watched the Succession finale last night. This Gerri line is basically the ethos of the show.

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  13. Dec 17

    Today is the sixth anniversary of my greatest contribution to the :

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  14. Dec 17

    “Writerly Life Theft, circa 2021 was best known for its roles in the Third Wave of ‘Cat Person’ Discourse and the Post-Cringe Wave of Kidneygate.” Brief obituaries for the literary discourses we lost this year:

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  15. Dec 17

    Boosted.

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  16. Dec 17

    Listened to a podcast interview early this morning of a prominent media leader and the host is insistent on making the discussion self-referential rather than, you know, about the person being interviewed.

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  17. Dec 17

    I rarely “hate read” anything but I very often resentment read.

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  18. Dec 16

    “As Washingtonian tends to do, we asked Schaffer how he planned to approach Politico’s insistence on referring to itself in capital letters. ‘I plan to add one capital a month,’ he says. ‘By late fall, the whole word should be capitalized.’”

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    Dec 16

    Me.

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    Who remembers this shot? 🔥🏆
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  20. Dec 16

    “I dig Lozada’s nonfiction book reviews for the Washington Post, and god bless him for reading all he did about the Trump White House and all its never-ending drama. It didn’t disappoint.” Glad WHAT WERE WE THINKING made the holiday book guide:

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    Dec 15

    If not now, when?

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