Only If You Get Caught is back for a new season today, this time in video youtu.be/6ELE32YEgUo?...
The Rise and Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX | Only If You Get Caught | Defector
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Alex Sujong Laughlin
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i wrote about how that nyt blackout article sent me down a weird prepper rabbit hole and i lived to tell the tale defector.com/how-do-i-avo...
How Do I Avoid Becoming A Doomsday Prepper? | Defector
I knew I had gone too far when the question of whether we should buy a gun crossed my mind. This came at the apex of a weeklong anxiety spiral triggered by a feature the New York Times published about...
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adventures in chronic illness never cease: after experiencing ~90% remission throughout most of my pregnancy, a course of antibiotics is triggering a full-on, vintage psa flare!!! who knew!!
icymi defector has a parenting advice column and i genuinely think it's one of the best things we've ever done defector.com/should-i-be-...
Should I Be Worried That My Kid Hasn't Found A Best Friend? | Defector
Welcome back to Minor Dilemmas, where a member of Defector’s Parents Council will answer your questions on surviving family life. Have a question? Email us at minordilemmas@defector.com. This week, Ju...
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chasing down a $500 payment from am*z*n mostly out of spite
I spoke to @alexlaughs.bsky.social for Try Hard about my struggles with my second novel, The Queen of the Night. And a few other things!
Alex Sujong Laughlin@alexlaughs.bsky.social · 3w ago🗣️ @alexanderchee.bsky.social on Try Hard pass it on!! defector.com/alexander-ch...
🗣️ @alexanderchee.bsky.social on Try Hard pass it on!! defector.com/alexander-ch...
Alexander Chee Trusted His Gut | Defector
Traditional publishing is a frustrating industry whose workers are under-resourced and often mandated to chase metrics like authors’ audience size and nascent trends based on “data,” “vibes,” and “Tik...
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While I'm on my promoting lovely people doing lovely things shit, the latest episode of @alexlaughs.bsky.social's Try Hard with Morgan Jerkins is wonderful. youtu.be/PI3QW2G-lAI
New York made Morgan Jerkins softer, not harder | Try Hard Podcast | Defector Media
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watching sec rush videos and thinking about how none of these girls were alive to watch the twin towers fall
Last week I joined the @airmedia.bsky.social board (!!!) and this week we announce AIR's first international fellowship, New Voice Africa, which is in partnership with @radioworkshop.bsky.social! You love to see it!!! airmedia.org/programs/new...
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Well look at that! The Cruelty of Nice Folks got a shoutout in the New Yorker! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Briefly Noted Book Reviews
Short review of recent releases.
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absolutely devastated to learn that my preferred sitting position is "considered" "unsafe" for "pregnancy"
People are opening these trinket boxes all over the place and then predictably they're devolving into sites of small-scale authoritarianism defector.com/trinket-box-...
Trinket Box Purveyors Are Melting Down | Defector
Who among us has not attempted to start a whimsical community-oriented project only for it to devolve into a site of small scale authoritarianism? It happens all the time! It even happened in my own t...
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i'm in @yoweishaw.bsky.social's newsletter today breaking some personal news lmao proxyhq.org/posts/alex-s...
if you're not a poet and you decide to write a poem, i highly recommend enlisting nyt's poetry columnist elisa gabbert to help edit 😅
Audio Flux@audioflux.bsky.social · 3mo agoHere come the Circuit 07 fluxworks! Starting with: Hungry Ghost by @alexlaughs.bsky.social "In the Buddhist tradition, the hungry ghost represents the way desire can consume a person’s entire being, and even their soul." Interrogating "wanting" via pantoum 🙌 www.audioflux.org/circuit07/al...
Here come the Circuit 07 fluxworks! Starting with: Hungry Ghost by @alexlaughs.bsky.social "In the Buddhist tradition, the hungry ghost represents the way desire can consume a person’s entire being, and even their soul." Interrogating "wanting" via pantoum 🙌 www.audioflux.org/circuit07/al...
I co-wrote a book of essays about the movie It's A Wonderful Life with @emilystjams.bsky.social! It's out in September. Pre-order it here! www.harpercollins.com/products/eve...
Every Time a Bell Rings
A fond and nostalgic cultural history of It's a Wonderful Life, celebrating the beloved holiday film's actors and creators, its unexpected journey f...
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Kicking off the new Try Hard season with a conversation with OG YouTuber Ingrid Nilsen, who quit her influencing career in 2020 defector.com/why-star-you...
Why Star YouTube Influencer Ingrid Nilsen Quit Her Job | Defector
Despite its apparent ubiquity, the career of “online influencer” is so young that the first generation of people to use that title are not only still working, but still young. Ingrid Nilsen was one of...
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I keep finding my dead cat’s hairs on me and then my day is derailed by grief!!!!!! I miss my buddy!!!!!
She pivoted to video, folks. And she feels complicated about it! defector.com/try-hard-is-...
'Try Hard' Is Back, Now In Video Form | Defector
In my early twenties, a huge part of my job was to convince older journalists in my newsroom to use social media. This is the kind of job that only a young person could have, not just because of my to...
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for aapi month i came out of retirement to weigh in on the wasian discourse defector.com/wasia-can-be...
Wasia Can Be A Lot. It's Fine. | Defector
When I was 24, a stranger on the internet called me a white man, and it sent me into such a tailspin that I changed my byline. Before then, I was going by “Alex Laughlin,” just my first and last name....
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the crazy thing about writing a book is that it really does happen in 30-60 minute chunks
Yesteryear doesn't work because there's very little humanity in Natalie's character; she's a caricature even to herself in a way that feels dishonest. The premise has a lot of opportunity to explore contradictions in this worldview but was held back by a lack of curiosity.
might fuck around and listen to the "you're wrong about" anastasia episode again while i clean the house
I love Lena Dunham but I didn't really love "Famesick" defector.com/lena-dunham-...
Lena Dunham Can't Help Herself | Defector
There’s an apocryphal story concerning the original pitch for Girls: Supposedly, Lena Dunham wrote it on the back of a cocktail napkin. It was all vibes but no plot or fleshed-out characters, and situ...
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One of the best things about Audio Fluxing is working with many amazing humans. Like these rock stars! Aka our Circuit 07 Commissioned Producers: @alexlaughs.bsky.social, Daniel Ondieki, Munira Kaoneka & Remoy Philip. Curious to hear their very varied takes on climate stories? Stay very tuned ✨
