Masters of the Universe is a truly shitty movie. It’s like 1987 all over again.
Jason Diamond
@jasondiamond.bsky.social
“Writer" - The New Yorker. “Author” - New York Times. “A fabulous old soul” - Russ & Daughters Instagram account. “Unlikely model” - BBC. My novel “Kaplan’s Plot” is out on Flatiron.
Got my ticket to see The Odyssey at 9 AM on a Friday. Ideal viewing.
Got asked to go on The Sporkful and talk about going on a GLP-1 and the whole thing got super personal and deep. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Can You Be On A GLP-1 And Still Love Food?
Podcast Episode · The Sporkful · July 13 · 31m
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Greg Baxtrom had a little restaurant empire going in Brooklyn. It was all gone by last year, but he survived. I talked to him about his journey, sobriety, losing it all, and gaining perspective. www.grubstreet.com/article/greg...
How Greg Baxtrom Found His Way Back
While his restaurants were soaring, Olmsted’s chef was struggling.
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Wrote about my daughter’s beautiful face that I hide behind a bagel emoji. www.thecut.com/article/bage...
My Daughter, Bagelface
I’ll never quit posting my emoji-obscured kid on Instagram, no matter what you think. Until, of course, she’s old enough to tell me to stop.
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Persepolis and Maus are the two graphic novels that they’ll be talking about and studying in 200 years if books are still a thing.
As for books - @jasondiamond.bsky.social had a wonderful hybrid memoir/pop culture appreciation out a few years ago. I just reread it & fell in love all over again. It's about surviving a terrible childhood, finding your way & loving John Hughes movies. More here: chicagoreader.com/arts-culture...
Jason Diamond’s Searching for John Hughes is really a journey of self-discovery - Chicago Reader
The Brooklyn author’s North Shore adolescence was a different kind of teen movie.
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Watching all the tech people get laid off because of corporate greed a few years after seeing a thousand idiots respond “Learn to code” to journalists posting about getting laid off because of corporate greed is some real capitalism snake eating its own tail kinda stuff.
Decided I’m going to AWP for the first time next year because it’s in Chicago. I want to rent a bus and make people eat beef while they read their stories.
It’s really hilarious to me when my daughter walks over and goes “Daddy! I pooped!” Then walks away.
yowza, @passionweiss.bsky.social uncovers joan didion's unexpurgated spring '67 hang with the grateful dead, rehearsing at the heliport in sausalito (excerpted in "slouching towards bethlehem"), now in the new york public library. www.powmag.net/p/a-little-d... ht @dadastrain.bsky.social
A Little Deeper Than Usual: Joan Didion on The Grateful Dead
Didion's never-before-read essay on the Dead comes from the late writer's New York Public Library archives.
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Wrote about being obsessed with raising my daughter to be the happiest, best version of herself and not caring if somebody calls me a “girl dad” or whatever. www.thecut.com/article/why-...
What’s So Bad About Being a ‘Girl Dad’?
The phrase is corny, but if disowning the label means prioritizing toxic masculinity over the well-being of my daughter, it beats the alternative.
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I was asked what I think the worst song to have sex to is. I knew my answer right away. open.substack.com/pub/taragian...
Worst Song To Fuck To, Part IV
WE ARE SO BACK.
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Had to double check this wasn't a menswear post on @jasondiamond.bsky.social instagram account
the_beka@thebeka17.bsky.social · 4mo agoDeclassified photos of Stasi agents modeling undercover disguises.
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As much as things have changed since writer Jason Diamond was his daughter Lulu’s age, the possibility still terrifies him, he writes in this essay for The Cut.
Will I Pass Down My ADHD to My Kid?
As much as things have changed since writer Jason Diamond was his daughter Lulu’s age, the possibility still terrifies him, he writes in this essay for The Cut.
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Ill always have some hope as long as there are still people making stuff by hand. For the NYT Styles section, I wrote about a few folks keeping embroidery alive in America. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/s...
Everyone Has Designs on Custom Embroidery
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Yesterday a 30-something mom told me Lulu is lucky to have a “cool Gen. X parent.”
My most naive take on anything AI is I can’t wrap my head around somebody saying they want to be a writer and then they get AI to do the work for them. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/b...
Horror Novel ‘Shy Girl’ Canceled Over Suspected A.I. Use
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A short story about writers at AWP but they’ve been dead the entire time.
I have a column at @thecut.com now where I’ll be writing about fatherhood, and I figured I’d kick it off by talking about how I decided to start taking Zepbound because I want to do everything possible to be able to annoy my daughter for at least another 50 years. www.thecut.com/article/figu...
Eating With My Daughter and My Zepbound
My food anxiety is inherited. Now that I’m on a GLP-1, I’m changing that for the both of us.
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