Police are clearing protesters from Hamilton Hall. Follow live coverage here: nytimes.com/live/2024/04/3…

Congratulations to the always fantastic, enviably talented Robert Sullivan who surely has a prize winner on his hands.

Cannot stop talking about this novel--nothing has come close to capturing the dread of the 2020s quite like it.

From the Department of Grossness:
'An August 2023 report published by pest control company MMPC estimated that there may be as many as 3 million rats in New York City, a 50% increase since 2010.' washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthc…

Happy publication day to Gillian Linden and her remarkable debut novel NEGATIVE SPACE--a cool, crystalline, and affecting book, and one for our times.

Tuesday night in Brooklyn:
Come see Ed Park talk with Gillian Linden about writing deadpan comic fiction and her 'exhilarating debut novel' (thomas beller in Air Mail) at Powerhouse.
powerhousearena.com/events/book-la…

The housing crisis has been especially severe in beach towns like the Hamptons where astronomical real-estate prices, low wages, and exploitative labor practices can make it almost impossible to find a living space via @NYTimes's Ginia Bellafante #WeekendReads buff.ly/3PVYwGM

Fourteen women have reported getting punched out of nowhere by strangers since mid-March. Ginia Bellafante asks why they're not being reported as hate crimes against women: shorturl.at/jIKT5

Pretty incontrovertible argument via Nicole: Had NYC kept vehicles with 5 or more speed- or red-light tickets off the roads in 2022, as many as 26 lives could have been saved, out of the total of 142 lives lost, reducing the death toll by 18%. vitalcitynyc.org/articles/saved…

A sublime book...

So glad to publish this excerpt from Gillian Linden's outstanding Negative Space, out next week from W. W. Norton & Company. A sly, funny, hyper-observant novel about teaching , parenting, and navigating hard choices at every scale. A truly great book. nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

The great American novel about parenting in the age of anxiety has arrived (or will, on 4/16): wwnorton.com/books/97813240…

EPIC 🐀📆⏳🏆💥🍾☠️

A truly shocking stat in this Alec MacGillis piece: 28% of American schoolchildren are 'chronically absent,' meaning they miss 10% of school days or more. More than one in four.
newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Merry That Piece Doesn't Fit In The Slot Is There A Goddamn Assembly Video day!

My 2023 unsung hero — the em dash.

There are many cases — even unexpected ones — where it offers a welcome break in a sentence.

Tonight on Netflix. 'Lincoln Terrace,' Season 3 finalé. Bob changes his passwords to Harry Nilsson album titles; Brenda is mysteriously kicked off the committee to bring back Lincoln Plaza Cinemas; the super doesn't bother shoveling the walk after the first snowstorm in 8 years.

Just once I want someone to admit in Sunday Routine that they spent the whole day staring at their phone.

'I am mayor because God gave me the authority to be mayor,' @nycayor says during an interview on Radio Vision Cristiana.

Wrote about Louise nybooks.com/online/2023/10… via The New York Review of Books