Award-winning author, LAST CALL (2021) and THE MAN NOBODY KILLED (2025) http://www.elongreen.com
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"That’s so classic of The New Yorker to feel that if you weren’t at The New Yorker you were essentially homeless and living hand-to-mouth on crap.” -- @susanorlean.bsky.social Forgot to dust this off for the New Yorker's 100th birthday. www.theawl.com/2013/07/the-...
Within minutes, the Curb theme would become a global anthem.
I would’ve ordered his accomplishments chronologically. But otherwise, A+.
As for editing my own writing? I edit my writing.
Among the perks of middle age is I no longer fear, and indeed accept, that I might be “missing out”. I yam what i yam, as the man says.
Dying.
*bangs gavel* i sentence you to a screening of Michael Clayton
hyphens are important.
With a name like that he’s probably doing anti-Italian racism
BACKBEATS (11/11/25) bookshop.org/p/books/back...
“Best” is always a tricky call but that’s tough to argue with. He played on 7 consecutive Record of the Year winners and for a period in 1968 he was on the #1 and #2 songs on the Billboard 200. And those aren’t even his best known credits.
Perhaps you would like to know if this information was easily available when johnson was hired by buzzfeed? Yes. Yes, it was
Like, if you want to understand Johnson all you need to know is he worked for Tony Perkins, a slightly more palatable version of David Duke.
Always wondered how the Black staffers at buzzfeed kept their cool around Johnson
I looked askance at buzzfeed news in the early years and it was entirely because of Johnson, and what he so obviously was
“start in media” is doing too much work here because Johnson’s career was launched by an internship at a white nationalist organization called family research council (this is not in his wiki but it’s probably the sort of thing that ought to be a NYT profile) youtu.be/FMtEicnWhyk?...
(one of the funniest quotes of all time, because even prior to the plagiarism allegations it was as far from true as i am from mars. Dude was *always* a hood-wearing hack)
"Benny Johnson is one of the web’s deeply original writers, as is clear from his body of work." —Ben Smith www.politico.com/blogs/media/...
Listening to it as a kid this was not apparent. It was like “ah, poor guy, he was *so* close to not throwing his marriage away.”
I love “twenty four hours from Tulsa” because it’s this stirring tearjerker about a guy who just had to fuck someone else on the way home from a business trip
a load-bearing musician, in other words
if you wonder if Hal Blaine played on a certain hit over like a 15 year period, yeah he probably did
you look at the tracks he played on and it’s hard not to conclude rock ‘n’ roll would, at the least, sound extremely different without him
… @johnlingan.bsky.social?
that’s why some of us are so annoying about the need to include links and not just screenshots. You people are being lied to.
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i used to talk to him when i answered phones at the observer 20+ years ago and it wasn’t nearly that bad.
That adam friedland interview with Torres was mostly excellent but man, was it jarring for the clip to be broken up by his pitch for twentysomethings to lose their shirts with draftkings
conservatives: we love states rights *wink* also conservatives: wait, not like that
Dershowitz want to do to the press what Claus von Bülow did to Sunny.
August 31st/September 1st
That’s right.
You will never hate Republicans enough.
Bublik looks like ginger baker on slightly less heroin
“1936 (Taylor’s Version)”
yes.
*pedantically* "the naked gun" is the new one (this is our generation's "MASH" v "M*A*S*H"
Ok lol taking the L here
Also the perils of not being regularly edited.
It’s really what did she know with the face of @sydney-bauer.com the oracle
Ridiculous lol
Uh. bsky.app/profile/casp...
They’ve won every game we’ve gone to for 10 years. So, let’s not break that streak.
fuck it, me and the 12yo are going to see the Mets #lgm
The merkin budget on peacemaker must’ve been like 10 million dollars
i just think next time the Walter Reed doctors need to practice malicious compliance, because come on guys
omg
“Bill Maher as pollen count” will definitely be the best thing i read today
This isn’t even debatable. Erickson’s entire professional life, going back at least 20 years, has been leading to this point.
Andy Warhol by David Bowie, blasting through the 12yo’s closed door
Erick Erickson is easily in the top 1% of People Who Are To Blame That His Wife Can’t Get A Covid Vaccine. He dug his own grave, and hers.
And his parents lived a long ass time.
*checks box score* what the fuck
I adore that fucking movie. A masterpiece that never announces itself as such.
The opening is like, "goddamn parents."
An opening sentence for the ages.
absolutely.
Reading TS, hard not to conclude that Sterne did so many things first, and in that book.
Might I suggest a truck carrying a massive Susan Collins Death Count monitor follow her around to campaign stops.
mostly agree with the first part, because why wouldn’t you want to challenge yourself, but definitely agree with the rest without qualifications. The majority of the quote tweets are super depressing.
put up a Republican Death Counter like the old national debt clock in Times Square
Every preventable death should be shoved down the throats of elected Republicans.
Ideally what I'm looking for here is an actual contact, maybe even a connection, because cold-emailing stores where the buyers don't know me has not been terribly fruitful so far. I'm always refining my pitch! But direct recs to booksellers who might be open to hearing from me would be so helpful.
Canadian book pals, my nonfiction story collection is in a handful of lovely indie stores already (e.g. Porch Light Books in Edmonton) but as we inch towards the holiday shopping season - yes, I'm sorry, it's happening! - I'd like to expand the list. Holler if you know of a store that might be game?
Fantastic Tragedy is a title in need of a book.
I mean, yes. But if it’s fantastic, then it’s not a tragedy!
“terrible tragedy” is such weird, albeit clichéd, wording. As opposed to, what, a fantastic tragedy?
Rod Dreher first
Regardless of how one feels about TL on a personal level (and believe me, I have feelings), her reporting tends to be quite solid and Wired is factchecked and edited to the hilt. There's zero reason to doubt it.
“Why aren’t the libs willing to play hardball? “Oh no, not like that.”
there should be something beyond the nuclear block specifically for that account
to say this man has shit for brains would be an insult to shit
We’d lucky if they were mediocre tbh
I remember being initially disappointed because i confused her with Nanci Griffith.
patty griffin in a church basement
Yes!
“I thought it might be the Roger Federer profile he wrote for The New York Times, but before I even read that one I got distracted by this 2019 Jeremy Gordon post in The Outline. Remember The Outline???”
Sure is. bookshop.org/p/books/last...
Oh yeah.
Still thinking about this lunacy.
Ok, I read this. Wtf.
I wrote this for the Washington Post ten years ago. They wouldn't print it now. Here's an archive, because I no longer subscribe & Bezos can kiss my ass. It addresses the tiresome subject of Nixon's letter to Trump, etc. archive.ph/koODf
Exceptional story. Everything I’d like to say about this, and the people who bear responsibility, is a terms of service violation.
Messaged you!
Any of you Nashville-based? I need a favor for a project…
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Obviously, watching that clip again, it’s quite obvious!
That’s my memory as well. It was not widely understood that she was a sociopath.
Decade ago, i had the pleasure and privilege of talking to Steve about the book. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Love this.
Truly one of the most beautiful works of nonfiction.
Not even for a minute.
well... www.businessinsider.com/heidi-moore-...
The news about HIV prevention is miraculous. May future generations not know what it’s like to lose so many friends that you stop counting. (That’s the backdrop of my first book.) bookshop.org/p/books/last...
It should pay more.
