Andrew Marzoni
@andrewmarzoni
teacher, songwriter @pizzaguymusic, critic @thenation, @newrepublic, @thebafflermag, etc.
For @thenation, I wrote about J. Hoberman’s New York. thenation.com/article/cultur…
with Liberia in the news again, re-upping one of my favorite magazine pieces: Denis Johnson's search for Charles Taylor amid civil war harpers.org/archive/2000/1…
My brother impulse bought a bowling ball engraved with “Zaddy” that is scented like red velvet cake.
My favorite new infuriating fact about the English is that they use the term "public school" to refer to the exact opposite of what it means in the U.S.
Definitely my favorite headline + photo combo of all time
Two of my students’ essays were published in the James Baldwin Centennial Edition of @nypl’s Teen Voices magazine, which also features one of their illustrations on the cover. nypl.org/sites-drupal/d… @nypl_teens
I wrote about James Baldwin’s career as a freelance journalist for @readliberties. libertiesjournal.com/online-article…
i am calling on mayor mamdani to build a new 20+ screen amc theater in atlantic terminal complete with full-size imax and dolby offerings. brooklynites deserve better than just the sheepshead bay regal and a goddamn alamo drafthouse
every academic: this lil piece is taking forever but it WILL be a masterpiece….send hugs :/ Finished article: to think the otherwise of the biopolitical imperative contained in Elphaba’s impossible ontology is thus to imagine fissures in the future anterior of the not-yet-been,
How to Train Your Dragon, dir. Dean DeBlois (2025): A family-friendly parable about the virtues of forcible regime change coupled with subjugation of the native population as an alternative to genocide and a means of achieving peace in a settler colonial context. PG.
I proofread this, so if you notice any errors…no you didn’t.
Andrew Cockburn (@andrewmcockburn) reports on the DNC’s People’s Town Halls and the party’s future direction. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…
It appears that now is my chance: the first two Coldplay albums are good, actually.
Dad summer has already become an exhilarating match of wits between a tireless young savant who is not above demanding to play toys at 1am and the endlessly patient geriatric millennial who is determined to exhaust him.