Adam Sternbergh
@sternbergh.bsky.social
culture editor, NYTimes Opinion novelist: THE EDEN TEST (out now); THE BLINDS; NEAR ENEMY; SHOVEL READY I wear suits now
Incredibly, Your House Will Be Pay made this list of the 50 best thrillers of the 21st Century. It is probably the 50th bestselling book on there, and I’m grateful to everyone who included it in their ballots.
The 50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century
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it’s nuts to go on a press tour to defend yourself and give the most dead eyed interviews imaginable
I confess I am weirdly entranced by skeets in which the skeet, the headline, and the summary all convey the exact same information
Entertainment Weekly@ew.com · 3h agoJoshua Jackson appeared in a photo shared by ex Jodie Turner-Smith from a family vacation with their daughter, Juno.
I'm going to guess a few of these quotes are incredulous
delighted to see this @nytimes.com list of 50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century. Full disclosure: I was a voter, and I'd say half of my 10 made the final list (GONE GIRL, MYSTIC RIVER, DARE ME, WINTER'S BONE, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN). www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The 50 Best Thriller Books of the 21st Century
Hundreds of novelists, librarians, editors and other book lovers voted. See how their ballots stack up.
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alright who’s got the early list of 2027 Top Trade Deadline Candidates
Angels are currently the most cursed franchise, haven't been worth watching since the days of Tungsten Arm O'Doyle
lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2d agotrade deadline is the only day of the season you need to remember the los angeles angels are a real baseball team that somehow plays 162 games a season just like everyone else
Also, having a real-life movie star couple headline your movie has been a time-honored Hollywood tradition for nearly a century. It doesn't always work, but Zendaya & Tom Holland have had a chokehold on their generation since their Lip-Sync Battle in 2017.
given both the Jays and the Mets bottomed out this year, one could argue that in both the case of Bo Bichette and of Pete Alonso, the teams overvalued the in-a-vacuum, risk-and-reward, ROI on investment element of player evaluation and undervalued what each player brought to their lineup as a whole
when you're so winning that you poll single digits as an incumbent and can't even win your own party's mayoral nomination for re-election, absolutely the next logical career move is as a public-persuasion lobbyist
Jessy Edwards@jessyedwards.bsky.social · 2d agoA video taken Saturday shows former NYC Mayor Eric Adams in sales pitch mode in Wisconsin Rapids, as he's heckled by residents opposed to the data center he's trying to sell them on. "My name is Eric Adams," he begins, as the boos begin to rain down. "You belong in prison!" one attendee shouts.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Hollywood has always been a town of dark rumors about the terrible, often abusive behavior,” Maureen Ryan writes. But there has long been “an entire system in place to keep the victims quiet and keep any revelations out of the public eye.”
Opinion | Jared Leto and Hollywood’s Open Secrets
Whispers can fester for years before anyone faces consequences. And the tactics celebrities use to escape scandal have completely changed.
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I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet
if you ever wonder how open secrets about terrible behavior fester in Hollywood and nothing is done, there’s likely no one more qualified than the great @moryan.bsky.social to break it down. Here she is on Jared Leto and Hollywood’s post #MeToo playbook [gift link]:
Opinion | Jared Leto and Hollywood’s Open Secrets (Gift Article)
Whispers can fester for years before anyone faces consequences. And the tactics celebrities use to escape scandal have completely changed.
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Speaking of that "The truth is, a bombshell like the BBC’s documentary should not be necessary, as there were published reports of Mr. Leto’s sleazy behavior as early as 2005."
Opinion | Jared Leto and Hollywood’s Open Secrets
Whispers can fester for years before anyone faces consequences. And the tactics celebrities use to escape scandal have completely changed.
nytimes.com
2023: movies are cooked 2024: movies are back 2025: movies are so back 2026 movies are too back?
Empire Magazine@empiremagazine.bsky.social · 3d agoSpider-Man: Brand New Day has just swung a spectacular $927 million debut at the global box office, second only to Avengers: Endgame in the all-time opening weekend rankings. Read more. 👉 www.empireonline.com/movies...
Those of you eager to serve wealthy MLB owners as volunteer Pinkertons won’t like to read this, but as usual Joe Sheehan nails the real problem:
my one disappointment with THE ODYSSEY is that Robert Pattinson didn't do the accent from TENET
between OBSESSION and BACKROOMS and PROJECT HAIL MARY and THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 and THE ODYSSEY and SPIDER-MAN it's been a very tough year for the "theatrical experience is cooked" narrative
Adam Sternbergh@sternbergh.bsky.social · 3d agohard to overstate how astonishing the opening is for SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY. It's very likely to be only the 2nd film ever to pass $300 million domestically in its debut weekend, and has a good chance to pass the current top opening, AVENGERS: ENDGAME — which is nuts given the build up to ENDGAME
> good morning! it's 6 AM and in today's weekend news President Trump has announced a temporary ceasefire on Truth Social, promising that a deal in Iran is imminent <
hard to overstate how astonishing the opening is for SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY. It's very likely to be only the 2nd film ever to pass $300 million domestically in its debut weekend, and has a good chance to pass the current top opening, AVENGERS: ENDGAME — which is nuts given the build up to ENDGAME
is the Nationals return for Juan Soto the greatest prospect haul in modern history? Granted Soto wasn’t a rental but trying to recall a another deal in which a player brought back so many future worthwhile players/stars
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com When the novelist Boris Fishman was looking for answers, he sought them at a silent retreat. “As the date approached,” he writes in a guest essay, “my thrill at the prospect of unspecified liberation turned to terror. I had never been alone with myself for that long.”
Opinion | To Find Happiness, I Stopped Talking. It Helped.
A silent retreat turned out to be exactly what I needed.
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looking forward to the new post-lockout playoff format, in which the MLB selects an all-star team to play the Dodgers in the World Series every year
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
I read this one a couple of years ago on a recommendation and I have not been able to shake it www.nyrb.com/products/sand
Sand
Set in the aftermath of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, this darkly sophisticated literary thriller by one of Germany's most celebrated writers is now available in the US for the first time.
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Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 2w agoNYRB should do their own version of the Criterion Closet for their book publishing arm imo
See this is what social media does I just started scrolling then I see this and suddenly I am blind with fury
Nitish Pahwa@nitishpahwa.com · 4d agoK-pop star Momo is under fire after breaking open a vintage graded Pokémon card to stick it on her face and keep it in her phone case
NYRB should do their own version of the Criterion Closet for their book publishing arm imo
