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First, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.
The brilliant voices behind RogerEbert.com asked me to expand my thread on Nolan’s THE ODYSSEY as a pointed assessment of America as “empire at dusk” into a full essay, which I was honored to do. Please read/share—and thanks to @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social @briantallerico.bsky.social for the invite!
RogerEbert.com@ebertvoices.bsky.social · yesterday"Nolan’s film is not a misbegotten attempt to modernize a classic—it is a deft and purposeful reflection of America in this moment, seen through the glass of mythological metaphor." Jeff Yang writes about THE ODYSSEY and the “people from the sea.”
Tonight! Tomorrow: Toronto. Thursday: Ottawa.
Zoë Sahay@drsdesk.bsky.social · 3d agoWinnipeg! @colsonwhitehead.com is visiting our one-of-a-kind city for the first time on Tuesday. Let’s show up and support these types of events in our Canadian cultural hot-spot! Tickets available here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/an-evening...
in re Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" (which, in the original Martian Chronicles, occurs on today's date), I didn't realize the very first published version of the story, in Collier's magazine, was set in April 1985. (the current edition of Martian Chronicles now sets it in 2057).
As a writer I try to remember that the fact that something annoys me personally does not necessarily make that thing important enough to write about
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
Gotta love the “or stocks” part. Like Gemini realized its first answer was nuts so it tried to wedge in a better one.
Could you even legally get an 11 year old to say this on set now?
Happy 48th Anniversary to Piranha! Celebrate with TFH Guru Jon Davison’s trailer commentary. trailersfromhell.com/piranha/
my neighborhood 7-11 closed a couple years ago and tried to reopen but couldn’t get the permit approved because there’s a preschool next door and 7-11s sell alcohol (the previous permit was grandfathered in). i saw a fence going up around the lot recently and looked up what was moving in: a gun shop
The ghost of my dead plant watching me go to Lowe's gardening section
Top 10 mysterious outsiders who wandered into town and changed our lives forever
Thanks for picking it up, champ!
Charlie Connell@cconnell8.bsky.social · 3d agoJust finished Cool Machine by @colsonwhitehead.com and it was tremendous. Best book I’ve read all year. Such a love letter to NYC. It’s a little bittersweet that this is the end of the trilogy, I’d be happy to hang with Carney, Pepper, and the rest for decades more
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Joel Mathis@joelderburner.bsky.social · 3d agoI'm reading @colsonwhitehead.com's "Harlem Shuffle" and it's having the same effect on me that all his novels seem to: He writes lightly and yet I feel a low-level dread that usually signals to me I'll be experiencing a panic attack somewhere in the near future. I'm not sure what to make of it.
Winnipeg! @colsonwhitehead.com is visiting our one-of-a-kind city for the first time on Tuesday. Let’s show up and support these types of events in our Canadian cultural hot-spot! Tickets available here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/an-evening...
An Evening with Colson Whitehead
A special evening with #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer winner COLSON WHITEHEAD in celebration of COOL MACHINE.
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Why had he lived so long among those who were not kind?
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
This is deadass every republican campaign ad here in the south. I'm not even REMOTELY JOKING.
Barack Obama’s summer book list came out this week, revealing fresh insights about which authors the 44th president turns to again and again for his warm-weather reading. Here’s the full list for the summer of 2026:
The authors who show up most often on Obama’s summer reading lists
The 44th president’s reading list is out, and it features some familiar names.
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Sometimes when doing genealogy research you stumble upon stuff that leaves you speechless.
Three-byline alert: 🚨 “.. a year and a half after his triumphant trip to the White House, Ellison may be poised to become something else: a cautionary tale. .. Ellison is personally worth .. $200 billion less than he was at his peak ..” @nytimes.com $ORCL www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/m...
everybody's talking about the odyssey, but america has a meaty epic poem with countless interpretations all its own: john henry www.dontrocktheinbox.com/on-john-henr...
On John Henry, American Epic Poem
It's a nice idea that "This Land Is Your Land" should be our national anthem, a wonderful song full of generous and idealistic sentiment that's actually easy to sing. (That the Star-Spangled Banner sh...
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christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
