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A review with one foot in Florida and one foot in the life of the mind. EIC: Elizabeth Stice. Likes and retweets are not endorsements.
I wrote about the lack of administrative support for the liberal arts in @nytimes. The standard story we hear is that students don't want it. But a darker reality is that even when it wins big with students and donors it loses with those in power. nytimes.com/2025/07/17/opi…
i know a guy in his 40s who’s handsome, super wealthy, throws huge parties at his long island mansion, war veteran, into jazz… and yet he spends many of his nights staring across the manhasset bay wondering why he’s unable to find true love is modern dating really this broken?
It’s ok to buy another copy of a book if the cover is beautiful #hemingway
Today I visited a range of habitats that were abundant in nature The one that stole the show was the newly created meadow full of thousands of Chalk Hill blues Grazed by sheep, at the right time and the right density Always a pleasure @Bill_Sutherland
What if, and hear me out, we utterly socially shun anyone caught surreptitiously recording people with glasses like these? What if we banned their stupid "candid" videos off instagram, kicked them off YouTube, and made it unthinkable to be an antisocial buffoon in polite society?
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Today’s review orangeblossomordinary.com/reviews/califo…
why do I need to do two-factor authorization to access my student loans. if someone wants to log in and pay them they can have at it
My latest book review-for the Joan Didion & Eve Babitz fans
@mikeets14 reviews “Didion and Babitz” By Lili Anolik orangeblossomordinary.com/reviews/califo…
Alain de Botton has written ~17 books and runs the School of Life YouTube channel, which now has almost 10 million subscribers. And this is a rare interview for him. Some highlights: 1. A clear night sky is a challenge to everything we think we know. 2. If we really took on…
More information on our book club for “Joy in the Morning” orangeblossomordinary.com/reviews/book-c…
Here are some well-respected lit mags where your chances are better than impossible! Not too competitive, but not exactly easy either. 3-8% acceptance rates based on 100+ subs tracked on the website Find them here: chillsubs.com/lists/sweet-sp…
Officially intrigued
New Book Announcement! THEATRES OF THE BODY: Dance and Discourse in Antebellum Philadelphia, by Lynn Matluck Brooks, provides an expansive study of Philadelphia’s significant contributions to dance during the nation’s political, social, and intellectual development.
Classic
Revisit one of Milan Kundera's most seminal works, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” from 1984. nyer.cm/hxB9chi
Any Balzac fans out there? Big week for French literature and history over on the other place orangeblossomordinary.substack.com/p/robert-darnt…
To pair with Tuesday's review, here's a recent interview we did with Robert Darnton, top cultural historian and great conversationalist. @Harvard_Press orangeblossomordinary.com/interviews/int…
He’s going on Hot Ones to promote it
We’re thrilled to share the jacket for Thomas Pynchon’s highly anticipated new novel Shadow Ticket, coming October 7, 2025! penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316427/s…