Kathryn Schulz @kathrynschulz Twitter profile

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6 years

I love working for @NewYorker , but I'm beyond appalled by this: I have already made that very clear to David Remnick. You can, too: themail @newyorker .com

Steve Bannon Headlines New Yorker Festival (Published 2018)

The writer Haruki Murakami and the actors Jim Carrey and Maggie Gyllenhaal are also among those to be interviewed at the event, which runs Oct. 5-7.

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Writers, hang in there. I'm moving and just found my first correspondence with the @NewYorker . Two decades later, they hired me.

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The greatest thing my sister and I ever did--when she was, say, thirty-one and I was twenty-eight--was fly home to Cleveland, meet at a nearby cafe, change into costumes, and trick-or-treat our parents.

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The room where it happened, ladies & gentlemen. At last night's Pulitzer ceremony with @Lin_Manuel & @emilynussbaum .

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12 years

Elected to the Senate today: the first disabled woman, first openly lesbian woman, first Asian woman. Binder full of fucking awesome.

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7 years

The writer's paradox: 1. loves writing 2. will do anything—clean the fridge, muck out the barn, listen to Nickelback on repeat—to avoid it.

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5 years

On an otherwise bleak day, this tweet is bringing me real joy. New phrase for every obstacle in my life: a large boulder the size of a small boulder.

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Large boulder the size of a small boulder is completely blocking east-bound lane Highway 145 mm78 at Silverpick Rd. Please use caution and watch for emergency vehicles in the area.

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6 years

We're gonna get 10,000 think pieces on Ford's testimony & how women, to be liked, trusted, & safe, have to be nice, compassionate, & helpful. True. But let me just say: we'd be way better off working to hold men to those same standard than working to change them for women.

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5 years

It just took me 17 minutes to write one sentence, so I hope y’all will buy my book in 2030.

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6 years

Thanks to everybody for the unequivocal public response. David Remnick has just informed the staff that the Steven Bannon event has been canceled.

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6 years

I'm constantly amazed by how much of revision involves moving sentences from the wrong place to the right one. What a strange thing about the human mind: we can think reasonably well yet entirely out of order.

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7 years

So it turns out the force that could corrupt the morality of young boy scouts wasn't gay people. It was the president of the United States.

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10 years

Early days, but here, so far, is my favorite poem of 2015. From Highlights. Written by a 9-year-old. HT @saladinahmed http://t.co/CNWce21Rjs

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1 year

As for me, I cried half a dozen times while writing this piece about the mother who founded @PFLAG . When her son was outed in 1968, homosexuality was illegal in 49 states. Instead of trying to change him, she set about trying to change the world.

How One Mother’s Love for Her Gay Son Started a Revolution

In the sixties and seventies, fighting for the rights of queer people was considered radical activism. To Jeanne Manford, it was just part of being a parent.

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4 years

This is the year I learned that sufficiently intense relief is indistinguishable from joy.

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5 years

If you're missing your father today instead of celebrating with him, I'm with you. Here's what I wrote after my own dad died. ("What!" he'd say, "I had to die to get into the @NewYorker ?" But I've never been so happy to have a place to share my thoughts.)

When Things Go Missing

Kathryn Schulz reflects on the sensation of loss: “Disappearance reminds us to notice, transience to cherish, fragility to defend.”

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8 years

Saturday was amazing. But if you put down your sign: pick up your phone. 202-224-3121 will direct you to your senators or representatives.

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4 years

Richard Burr: (202) 224-3154 Kelly Loeffler: (202) 224-3643

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I wrote about losing things: keys, wallets, cell phones, elections, loved ones.

When Things Go Missing

Kathryn Schulz reflects on the sensation of loss: “Disappearance reminds us to notice, transience to cherish, fragility to defend.”

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4 years

This is incredible. Straight out of Gogol. A Russian mayor needed an opponent so his election looked legitimate. No one would step up except the woman who cleaned city hall. Then she won.

She Used to Clean City Hall. Now, She Runs It. (Published 2020)

In Russia, elections are typically theatrical affairs with the winner and loser preordained. Sometimes, though, they go off script.

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7 years

I wrote about the most incredible thing I've ever found, and how it led me to the remarkable African-American novelist William Kelley. ?amp=1

The Lost Giant of American Literature

A major black novelist made a remarkable début. How did he disappear?

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6 years

I have just constructed a sentence that, per @NewYorker style, will have to contain the following punctuation: '''''),

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10 years

Handily the most prescient vision of the future I've ever seen: http://t.co/lI9GxEZk6k From a German magazine c. 1930. Via @mrkocnnll

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With apologies to @MarieKondo , I wrote about my father and the life-changing magic of a disorganized pile of books.

My Father’s Stack of Books

When he was a child, books were gifts. For his daughters, he made sure they were a given.

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6 years

In an all around horror show, this is particularly horrifying.

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6 years

Whoops. Turns out that at no point in high school was it legal for Kavanaugh to drink. Maryland's drinking age was raised to 21 when he was 17.

Kavanaugh says it was legal for seniors to drink when he was in high school, but Maryland's...

Both women who have accused the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct in high school and college say he was intoxicated at the time. Kavanaugh suggested incorrectly that his high...

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4 years

More than one indie bookstore has closed each week since the pandemic began. I can't tell you how much these places mean to writers--and readers, and communities. Please, please, please: if you're going to buy a book this year, buy it at a local store.

Your Local Bookstore Wants You to Know That It’s Struggling (Published 2020)

Independent booksellers are desperate for customers to return, and not just for an online reading.

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7 years

Some good sign action at the Boston science march.

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7 years

In what I'm pretty sure is the most meta edit ever, the NYer copy department just looked over a draft of mine & changed "elite" to "élite."

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7 years

Here's the incredible find that led to my piece on William Kelley in this week's @NewYorker . Plucked out of a junk shop in rural Maryland. As I say in the piece: we gawped.

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8 years

Crooked Hillary. Swift Ajax. Sleepy-eyed Chuck Todd. Red-haired Menelaus. Lyin' Ted Cruz. Ox-eyed Hera. Devious Cronus. Dishonest media.

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8 years

Holy freakin' moly.

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10 years

The periodic table of the elements, scaled by relative abundance on earth: http://t.co/R7xEZDiVJh HT @lizweil http://t.co/SUH631WDdp

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8 years

Just a little reminder to elected officials: you don't swear allegiance to a leader or a party. You swear allegiance to the Constitution.

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5 years

Terrible, terrible news. Absolutely antithetical to the finest impulses of this nation, and also economically absurd: given tax breaks and subsidies, the ultra-rich are more of a burden on this country than the poor.

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BREAKING: On 5-4 vote, Supreme Court lets Trump administration start enforcing new immigrant wealth test, designed to screen out green card applicants seen as being at risk of becoming "public charges".

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6 years

Hiring reporters from diverse race & class backgrounds doesn't just change the composition of the newsroom. It changes the composition of the news -- not just what gets covered, but how. Important piece by @jelani9 .

Missing the Story

Five years ago, I came across an article in The New York Times about a spate of robberies in the Bronx. It was the kind of story that has been a staple in the metro sections of newspapers since there...

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3 years

I’ve been negligent about posting our wildflowers because @cncep and I grew something much more beautiful this summer: our amazing daughter, who joined the world two months ago today and has made it brighter and more meaningful every day since.

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Wild Welsh ponies in the wild Welsh mist.

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5 years

"That is the problem with power: It incentivizes forgiveness and forgetting." A fierce and smart and (to my mind) very sad @Dahlialithwick piece on why she hasn't gone back to the Supreme Court since the Kavanaugh hearings.

Why I Haven’t Gone Back to SCOTUS Since Kavanaugh

Some things are worth not getting over.

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3 years

I've kept this under my hat so far, but @randomhouse made such a beautiful cover that I had to share: my new book, LOST & FOUND, out 1/11/22. You can learn more / preorder here:

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6 years

Fascinating, instantly behavior-changing @outsidemagazine article about sunscreen, Vitamin D, skin cancer, race, and mortality. (As ever, the moral of the story is that the best thing you can do for your health is go outside.)

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7 years

Oh my God, these students. They should never, ever, ever have to be going through this, but unlike virtually everything these days, their anger and clarity and conviction gives me hope.

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At the Stoneman Douglas shooting rally now: "You are responsible! You are responsible!"

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"There is no other way to say this: The N.R.A. funds domestic terrorism." Thank you, Rosanne Cash.

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8 years

A concept I learned years ago that might now come in handy: fractal wrongness—the condition of being wrong at every scale of resolution.

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8 years

Honored and staggered, in the other order. Thank you, Pulitzer committee.

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7 years

On fire: @CoryBooker and fellow Senate Dems at the Capitol, fighting for healthcare -- yours, mine, everyone's.

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3 years

I have a new book coming out next month. It's about losing my father & falling in love, about how all of our lives are shaped by loss & discovery. I've never written anything that matters more to me, and I'd be honored if you'd preorder it.

Lost & Found: A Memoir by Kathryn Schulz, 1.11.22.

Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz’s father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost & Found, she weaves the story of those relationships into a brilliant exploration of the role that loss...

www.kathrynschulz.com

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5 years

Impossibly beautiful day here in Vermont.

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10 years

Stunning @AP image of the ash-covered shrine near the top of Japan's Mt. Ontake. http://t.co/5j30tXpyx6 http://t.co/FBHzl3MDRs

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6 years

A word of praise to @outsidemagazine , which has lately begun dedicating real space & resources to Native rights, gender & race discrimination in the outdoors, and athletes & nature-lovers of all stripes. A welcome change from the gear-and-extreme-sports overload of the past.

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4 years

Four days left, folks. Even our car is excited to be supporting @JoeBiden and @TeamJoe . Please text and call and do anything else you can. And above all, vote!

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5 years

Friends, help me congratulate @cncep ! (Also, as a household we have now put all our eggs in one basket, so please subscribe to the @NewYorker .)

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11 years

Hey @nypl , I built Patience and Fortitude a friend. (His name is Procrastination.) http://t.co/9WUNK5X0Ce

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5 years

Just a reminder that behind every good writer is that exact same writer deleting their own terrible sentences.

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6 years

Two years ago, I wrote a story about a Muslim man who immigrated to Wyoming in 1909 and earned a living selling tamales. Now there's a statue in his honor where his restaurant used to be.

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8 years

I have said it before and will say it again: writing is easy. It's the thinking that's hard.

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4 years

The last time I felt this awful was Nov. 8, 2016.

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5 years

This is a beautiful fact: Aristotle regarded echoes, rainbows, and reflections as belonging to the same category of natural phenomena.

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6 years

Americans have plenty of jobs but they're increasingly lousy. Why? Because it's harder than ever for workers to form unions but easier than ever for companies to form oligopolies. Excellent, alarming piece:

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4 years

Kitten has filed himself under Poetry (D-J).

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9 years

I will never understand the relationship between how much I want to write when I'm not writing and how much I don't want to write when I am.

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6 years

A splash of water under a microscope. Beautiful and strange, like a collaboration between the Atlantic Ocean and Paul Klee.

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5 years

Fact: when I was nine, I met her at this wonderful Ohio writers conference for kids and got to sit next to her at lunch and she said she hoped I wouldn’t forget my dream of growing up to be a writer. Ms. Cleary, belatedly, thank you: I didn’t.

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Happy 103rd to the great Beverly Cleary. Here's my appreciation from when she turned 100.

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I've read about 650,000 words of Jill Lepore, on everything from Eugene Debs to Wonder Woman, but this essay is really something else.

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11 years

Whoa. 100-yr-old photo negatives found frozen in a block of ice in Antarctica: http://t.co/fz90gei5aL HT @David_Dobbs http://t.co/8BE6IFj3Wy

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4 years

It's so interesting, how poorly we understand but how readily we feel exponential change. That's why two weeks ago feels like an eternity: because the rate of change right now so far outstrips the passage of time.

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This advice from the @BostonGlobe circa 1943 has aged exceptionally well. (HT @lpolgreen ) http://t.co/CDoNnSOWbl

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10 years

I am really delighted to say that I'll be joining the @NewYorker as a staff writer.

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7 years

Was off grid for a bit and returned to this lovely news. Wish my dad were alive to hear it.

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7 years

. @kathrynschulz 's meditation on losing things, small and large, is a finalist for @ASME1963 #Ellies award for Essays and Criticism.

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8 years

I cannot keep up with you all, but huge heartfelt thanks to everyone for the kind words. I'm over the moon.

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10 years

In an accident, should your self-driving car veer right to kill you or left to kill 2 strangers? http://t.co/i8ISmJWADR Dark & fascinating.

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3 years

Snapped a pic while no one was looking.

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6 years

Especially in these dire days for journalism, I'm grateful that @TheAtlantic sometimes just lets @edyong209 explain things. Like the disgusting, fascinating substance that is hagfish slime.

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6 years

I wasn't aware that the days had an end anymore.

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6 years

Evening Briefing: Here's what you need to know at the end of the day

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6 years

Based on the last six hours alone, you could write two hundred dissertations on Gender, Emotion, and the Public Sphere.

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7 years

We're just lucky they didn't write "Donald Trump, Jr.,'s Coöperation with Russia."

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Unfortunate side effect of the scandal is this period-comma-apostrophe bullshit from the New Yorker.

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In my sorrow, I almost dismissed this as banal. Then I remembered it would have been unthinkable when I came out.

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8 years

I hope @TheDemocrats get it now: we the people don't want them playing nice w/Trump. No compromises, no picking battles. Fight the damn war.

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9 years

I wrote about the earthquake that will eat the Pacific Northwest: http://t.co/jZRkc1NcgM

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6 years

What does a 24.9 billion-pixel photograph of Shanghai look like? Gorgeous, but also a lot like universal surveillance. Zoom in, and you can see footwear, faces, cell phone screens. Crazy. HT @traceylindeman

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I was thinking today about that strange technological interregnum during which people MapQuested directions and then printed them out.

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8 years

With apologies to @tferriss , someday I am going to publish a self-help book for writers called The Four-Hour Sentence.

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3 years

My piece for this week's @NewYorker opens with one of the most amazing things I've ever witnessed. No way to tag Billy the Cat here, but please do read about him:

Why Animals Don’t Get Lost

Birds do it. Bees do it. Learning about the astounding navigational feats of wild creatures can teach us a lot about where we’re going.

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5 years

In addition to everything else @cncep and I are celebrating right now—our wonderful moms, ongoing book delight—there’s this: one year ago today, we said I Do.

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In 10th grade, the very shy Maurice Sendak dodged a class presentation on Macbeth by turning in a visual essay. (He got an A+.)

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Amen. Because 1) policy is unbelievably important (and why I'm very big on Elizabeth Warren) and 2) prior to winning, our last two elected presidents were routinely deemed unelectable.

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So @mattdpearce of @latimes asked readers to take an online survey about how he should approach 2020 coverage, his new beat. Q: If you ran the newsroom, what types of stories would you tell reporters to focus on? Policy: 67%. Electability: 1.3%. Thread:

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7 years

This piece by @praddenkeefe on the family behind the opioid crisis is incredibly important and staggeringly good.

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3 years

Incredible full-arc rainbow here.

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8 years

Making calls for Foster Campbell and learning that many committed Louisiana Democrats don't know there's a runoff race for the Senate seat.

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8 years

Time to make like the Tea Party and the NRA and become impossible to ignore. That means calling about everything you care about. Daily.

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5 years

Honestly, Mr. Comey, I didn't write that book as a how-to guide.

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3 years

I spent a lot of 2020 being thankful for all the things that didn’t happen to me: sickness, unemployment, loss of anyone close to me to the pandemic. I’m still grateful for all that, but in 2021, I’m mostly overwhelmed with gratitude for what did happen. Happy Thanksgiving, all.

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8 years

Last day for early voting in Louisiana's senate runoff race. Live there? Know someone who does? Vote! Here's where:

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6 years

Another woman comes forward:

Senate Democrats Investigate a New Allegation of Sexual Misconduct, from the Supreme Court Nominee...

A Yale classmate of Kavanaugh’s describes a dormitory party gone awry and a drunken incident that she wants the F.B.I. to investigate.

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3 years

The most surprising thing about parenthood is that it has made me into a genuinely happy morning person. How could I not be, when I get to hang out with this kiddo?

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People say NYC is constantly changing but I’m in an old familiar cafe in Brooklyn that’s blasting Modest Mouse and I’m pretty sure I’ve been sitting here working on this exact same piece of writing since 2004.

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@5thCircAppeals That's truly wonderful. I framed this one, too, although only approximately a million years later, when they hired me.