I'm scattering acorns all over my home just for the novelty of seeing my acorn obsessed two-year-old clean up.
Benjamin Samuel
@benjaminsamuel.xyz
Voted “Most likely to be seen at the diner” by the class of 2002. Senior Editor at @bombmag.bsky.social
It’s so important to remind people that we can do good smart things that help and don’t hurt.
jentrification ♎@jentrification.com · 3mo agoTwo Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soybeans
"I never enter into a story with any kind of map; rather, I’m constantly dowsing for discovery." —Bret Anthony Johnston bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
The Spring 2026 issue of BOMB is also the 25th issue of @bombmag.bsky.social that I've had the pleasure to edit.
I'm not going to cry over this. I'm not going to cry over this. I'm not going to cry over this. I'm not...
As someone who really liked what MCD was doing, this is incredibly depressing to hear. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
FSG Closes its MCD Imprint, McDonald to Depart
The imprint was formed in 2016 by then FSG publisher and president Jonathan Galassi to publish experimental works. Under the direction of Sean McDonald, MCD published a range of bestselling and award-winning fiction and nonfiction titles.
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"Failure is a beautiful thing. When you write, the joy is in coming up against what you can’t do. And then you and the work have to be reconciled together." — @legroff.bsky.social speaking with @rumaan.bsky.social in the spring issue of @bombmag.bsky.social bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
Welcome back to Do-I-have-a-cold-or-is-this-just-allergies Season.
20 years ago, while commuting from campus to the city, I heard @wilcohq.bsky.social’s “Jesus, Etc.” for the first time. Some celestial alignment had me back on campus last weekend to speak on a panel about internships just weeks after editing an interview with Jeff Tweedy for @bombmag.bsky.social.
The classic car designation on this vanity plate is the masterstroke.
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll ruin the ecosystem.
BOMB’s Spring 2026 issue is here and features a mixed media and collage work by Deborah Roberts on the cover. The spring issue will be available to BOMB members online starting March 16.
Look Inside BOMB’s Spring 2026 Issue
Our new issue hits newsstands on March 16. Here, a peek at the interviews, literature, and art inside.
bombmagazine.org
“AI giant Anthropic ran a massive program called Project Panama where they spent tens of millions of dollars to hoover up used books, which they then sliced, scanned, and pulped.”
Anthropic didn’t want us to know that they were destroying millions of books to feed their software.
Companies making machine learning and generative software aren’t just metaphorically ripping off books. In at least one case, they’re rather literally shredding millions of physical books to …
buff.ly
I’m adding “Olympic hopeful” to my bio. I have no athletic talent, look terrible in spandex, and would be considered a geriatric competitor by the next Olympic Games, but one can always be hopeful.
Please beware of scammers using my name. They are offering artists interviews in BOMB as a pretense to get them to download some sketchy AI software called NexBee. More details in the image below. Stay safe out there!
You know what's actually a threat to "masculine values"? Claiming that a Boy Scout with a rainbow-colored neckerchief slider is "detrimental to national security."
NPR@npr.org · 11mo agoDocuments show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts n.pr/3M48mr2
“Every time someone walked in, they commented on the smell, as if it were off-gassing depression.”
We Bought a 450-Pound Mystery Pallet Packed With Returned Goods From Amazon and Beyond. Here’s What We Found Inside.
Pallets of overstock, returned, and undelivered-mail packages are an indicator of just how much stuff there is in the retail ecosystem.
nytimes.com
Helped my daughter finish a hidden picture worksheet, and now I'll never sleep again.
Saturday was a doubleheader of kid birthday parties. I decompressed at the jewelry making station.
"Is it broken, or is it still unbroken?" Still wrapping my mind around this koan from my 5yo during a game of 20 questions, but I'm pretty sure the answer relates to our current democracy.
"In journalism, you take muddy ideas and try to clarify them for the reader; a powerful thing you can do in fiction is take assumptions—things people thought were clear—and muddy them up." — @knguyen.bsky.social absolutely crushing it on @thedailyshow.com (!!!) www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
Kevin Nguyen - “Mỹ Documents: A Novel” | The Daily Show
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I grind my teeth every time I have to omit the serial comma in Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Happy pub day to the glorious new collection GOOD AND EVIL AND OTHER STORIES by Samanta Schweblin and translated by Megan McDowell! Get your copy from @bookshop.org or your local heroic bookstore. bookshop.org/p/books/good...
