CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN
@xlorentzen
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TV Guide too. That's what won the cold war, baby==magazines!
Not really a conspiracy “theory,” but Reader’s Digest was funded by the CIA and used as soft power against the Communists. By the 1980s, the CIA was planting stories in the Digest and several of their writers were Agency contractors—particularly those reporting on Latin America.
Team mamdani should launch a recall campaign to replace Kirsten gillibrand with Al Franken
This is a horror and Israel is to blame. There needs to be a ceasefire and Gaza flooded with food and water. nytimes.com/2025/07/24/wor…
Immediately calls to mind @xlorentzen on Biden: "I need money." lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/…
🚨 NEW: President @JoeBiden has reportedly sold his presidential memoir to Hachette for a $10 million advance, per Wall Street Journal. Not bad for a guy they said was “finished.” Congrats, 46.
Good luck, homeslice.
jag spelar snart samma roll som christian lorentzen spelade i en översatt lägenhetspjäs, jag kommer att ta det till en ny nivå
Just had a nightmare that I had to be on a panel. Luckily this, week after next in Prizren, is a reading.
Gone to Prizren this summer with @xlorentzen, @suzana_vu_go, Ryan Ruby, Josh Furst, and Ervina Halili.
Or real estate.
i don't really feel any curiosity or awe about AI; it's a very boring topic of conversation, up there with weight loss talk & listening to a stranger describe the minutiae of her hinge date
Gone to Prizren this summer with @xlorentzen, @suzana_vu_go, Ryan Ruby, Josh Furst, and Ervina Halili.
Finally an excuse to switch careers to 'motorboat operator' as I was always destined to do.
The fact that “models” and “mathematicians” are on this list says to me that whoever made it does not understand anything about AI’s uses or why people use it
I will be on this event with Lawton & Cohen in August in New York City unless I get murdered between now and then.

i love you @tnyfrontrow. everybody must read this. newyorker.com/culture/the-le…
The rank philistinism of the end of this garbage . . .
.@StephenAtHome revisits Kenneth Tynan’s 1978 New Yorker Profile of Johnny Carson, and considers the career of the “Tonight Show” host amid the changing landscape of late-night TV. nyer.cm/9T6fmMm
'Dining out'
Hunter Biden just went off on the Democratic Party: "Fuck him and everybody around him... George Clooney is not a fucking an actor. He's a brand." "James Carville hasn't won a race in 40 fucking years." "David Axelrod had one success in his political life and that was Barack…
It is a perfect crime novel. vulture.com/2016/01/black-…
heartily second this rec
Re: adverbs. christianlorentzen.substack.com/p/against-adve…
"There was no shame in chasing whatever was hot. The embrace of vulgarity caused a few resignations when Brown took over The New Yorker, but now it seems to most readers and magazine hands the natural order of things." @xlorentzen nytimes.com/2025/07/15/boo…
youtube.com/watch?v=6ml8KD…
But seriously folks, I write lyrics and anything with an "-ly" sounds really wishy-washy and hard to emphasize and not rhythmic in the least. Exceptions of course, but the fact that this person thinks that is musical (or clarifying) is, frankly, asinine.