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Here's how I know that Bluesky is superior to the other place: Here, I can post a clip of Bonnie Raitt singing "Angel from Montgomery," gush about my love for Raitt, and then won't get a dozen replies along the lines of "You know, John Prine wrote that song...."

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I love David Halberstam's "October 1964" but also deeply annoyed that he wrote about the exact era of the St. Louis Cardinals that I want to cover and in a way that takes that team and all it stood for off the board for someone like me.

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It finally happened: I went to the Strand Bookstore over lunch and saw on the shelves a used copy of “Our Team” with a signed bookplate on the opening page. It was a good run.

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It's strange--as an undergraduate, you're trying to work in as much alliteration into your prose as you can get away with. At all times after that, you're trying to smoke it out.

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Look, I don't want to wade into the larger issue of what to make of so-called "cancelled" authors, but I will say that when one of them states that quotation marks are "inauthentic," I don't see how everyone's eyes wouldn't roll into the back of their heads at once.

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One more time for the NBA Finals: "Moses and the Doctor" will be released on February 10, and it's now available for preorder on my favorite site: bookshop[dot]org, at a discount even. For all you basketball junkies out there: bookshop.org/p/books/mose...

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I know I shouldn’t be but I nonetheless find myself shocked at the sheer volume of transphobia on the other site right now.

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Holy cow, Carlos Alcaraz is a wonder. What an incredible run of tennis over the past two sets.

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Two offbeat recommendations: First, this conversation between Ross Douthat and Tony Gilroy. It's a fascinating example of what happens when a too-online pundit flounders against an artist who refuses to box everything up into the culture war. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kUF...

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My manuscript will be going into copyediting next week. That might mean much to everyone else, but for me, it's the white flag in a race that I've been competing in for years.

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We're taking Ava on her first plane trip next week and I'm preparing more than when I moved to Chile decades ago.

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Not that I'd encourage anyone to wade into the other social media site, but everyone there has lost their minds over a tweet by the great Simone Biles....

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At that stage of book revision where I'm tweaking words here and there, uncertain if I'm making things slightly better or slightly worse....

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We are, at core, a nation of Jeff Lebowskis.

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Today's tune: I love this song and I love Bonnie Raitt. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iF8...

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This is one of more entertaining NBA playoffs ever. What a gift to basketball fans.

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My uncle, who lives in Terre Haute, Indiana, got tickets for Game Six in Indianapolis, but based on this first quarter, I'd be surprised if the series stretched that far.

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Shameless promotional post: My next book, "Moses and the Doctor," spans twelve years of basketball history, going from the ABA to the NBA, covering four different NBA Finals: 1977 and 1980-83. If you're watching the Finals now, you might find it interesting. www.amazon.com/Moses-Doctor...

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Let's be honest: a Finals matchup between Oklahoma City and Indianapolis is more in keeping with the old ABA. They should break out the red, white, and blue basketball.

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Must be miserable to be a billionaire. They seem so miserable and unfulfilled.

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It's cute that Elon is now claiming to have believed that he actually was trying to trim the federal deficit, instead of owning the libs and cutting tax cuts for the rich. Silly, silly man.

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Definitely. And along these lines, we're not producing "content." We're producing books, articles, paintings, plays, whatever. Lumping all these together as "content" makes them soulless, numbers on a spreadsheet.

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We have a lift-the-flap book that Ava loves, one of those that reveals a different animal under every flap. Lately, when we get to the camel, Ava has started saying "Da-da!" and I'm trying not to think too hard about why.

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I worked on this book. Ryan Coogler is right: "Our Share of Night" is extraordinary. Mariana Enriquez is one of the most prolific and daring writers right now.

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Found today on the free bookshelf at work. I loved Kriegel’s bio of Pistol Pete Maravich.

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Wes Anderson is one of those artists whom I've changed my mind about, not because I've started enjoying his movies (not my cup of tea) but because I've come to admire his dogged commitment to his aesthetic.

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