Read an excerpt from Nicolette Polek’s Bitter Water Opera, out today from Graywolf Press.
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The Life and Death of Hollywood — harpers.org/archive/2024/0… via Harper's Magazine

This, in Harper's Magazine, is one of the best pieces of writing I've seen capture the specific oddities - cultural, nostalgic, religious, and otherwise - of Branson with equal parts of genuine curiosity and strange sympathy.
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Liz Truss, the erstwhile and shortest-serving prime minister of Britain, endorsed a Trump presidency; “It has to be” him, the Conservative Party official said of her preference for the next occupant of the White House.

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#Dickinson showrunner Alena Smith revealed why the show ended with Season 3, and not being given viewership data was a big part of it:

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Brilliant and possibly definitive article about how things became so awful

I deeply regret this error and will strive to make Phil sound as metal as possible in future articles!!

Defamation from Kyle Paoletta in Harpers

I didn't 'take a drag from a vape.' I crushed Cowboy Killers--right after guzzling black coffee from the pot, rescuing a family of Bald Eagles, and pulling a wheelie in the parking lot on the motorcycle

Shame what the press won't report.…

Read this great Kyle Paoletta piece on campaign journalism in Harper's Magazine, featuring several pithy observations by yours truly!

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Good overview of some of the challenges for writers today. But I don't think the union or the government is the solution. A decentralized streaming platform (like a farmer's market) is the best realistic solution.

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May’s Harper’s has a letter from Harmony Holiday that’s also an exercise in autobiography; Jamaica Kincaid’s memoir of Baldwin; miragelike reportage from small-town USA (Branson, the Vegas of the Ozarks); Camille Bordas fiction; and Joy Williams on Kafka: harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

“It is probably the deepest and most existential crisis it’s ever been in. The writers are losing out. The middle layer of craftsmen are losing out. The top end of the talent are making more money than they ever have, but the nuts-and-bolts people who

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Hollywood Has Been Eating Its Own Tail (And Now It's Dying): “It is probably the deepest and most existential crisis it’s ever been in. The writers are losing out. The middle layer of craftsmen are losing out.

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This Harper's Magazine piece is a great encapsulation of what covering IA and NH was like, with Trump so far in the lead.

Plus it tickles me that a fact-checker reached out to double-check that I was, indeed, carrying 'an industrial-grade microphone.' harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

'I’ve held a bottle to my baby’s lips at sunrise, thinking, yes, he will be America’s first king, it is written in the stars. I’ve huffed his scalp.'

perfect Piepenbring piece pondering paternity in the new Harper's Magazine
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I spent January on the campaign trail for Harper's Magazine, only to discover that — surprise! — much of the political press still hasn't updated its '60s era playbook for the digital era. Sayonara, Race for Second Place, sillier now even than it was in the moment

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Can I interest you in another piece from the May @harpers issue? harpers.org/archive/2024/0…