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specktor.bsky.social
Novelist, memoirist, co-founder of The Los Angeles Review of Books
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💔 Farewell to the wonderful Bill Fay. I’ve always loved this one, which feels a bit like solo McCartney if the cloying-ish cheerfulness were replaced by melancholy a million miles deep youtu.be/CH9krC2X8yU?...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This is an excellent piece. As someone who worked for a studio in the nineties, and who witnessed up close the way Black talent was set-up constantly to fail during an ostensible renaissance, it speaks to something that was lost then and has only been more so since

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

👇🏻

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Fucking finally: BASEBALL SEASON, goddamn

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

A protester unfurled a combined Palestinian and Sudanese flag on the field during Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime performance. The NFL said in a statement that the person was part of the 400-member field cast. nyti.ms/3CVV6Au

submitted 17 days ago • 95 comments

“It is not alarmist to notice fascism; it is quietist to hate alarms.” This is delicious

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BREAKING NEWS: 4:07 Anti-deportation protesters are blocking traffic on 101 Freeway in Los Angeles. They want to stop Trump’s deportations of illegal migrants

submitted 24 days ago • 124 comments

classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity

submitted 26 days ago • 53 comments

HBD to the King

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When grown-ups think they can thwart kids on tech I remember the time kid3 evaded our no-texting-after-8pm ban and phone conversation by using Alexa to send texts and an old FitBit to receive them

submitted 34 days ago • 90 comments

Also a reminder you can pre-order this “potent blend” here 😎 www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Stoked to see PW hit The Golden Hour (“a potent blend of personal history and cultural critique”) with the ✨starred review this morning. 🍾🙏🏻 www.publishersweekly.com/9780063008335

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

Wrote about the Palisades Fire and the only path forward for @throfficial.bsky.social today www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/local-n...

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

Two beautiful prophets of my adolescence, exactly as I remember them. Goodbye, David 💔

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

Not only is this piece unspeakably graphic and difficult, it highlights the ways in which economic disparities allow this sort of abuse to flourish. Gaiman and Palmer—both artists whose work has always spurred a visceral dislike in me—come across as absolutely vile human beings

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

❤️❤️❤️ (thank you, @civreader.bsky.social 🙏🏻 Hope you enjoy)

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Watch this LA filmmaker call and grill landlords who are illegally price gouging in an emergency - great efforts by him and others to try to prevent this (and worth it for the cathartic comic relief too) - www.instagram.com/reel/DEtaZjE...

submitted 45 days ago • 2 comments

Planet Fitness locations in Los Angeles are “offering anyone impacted by the fires—first responders and residents—free access to shower, recharge, and relax” No membership is required to take advantage of locker rooms, WiFi, charging stations at any LA County location not impacted by the fires.

submitted 49 days ago • 172 comments

Please B00ST

submitted 49 days ago • 12 comments

This is such a fundamental piece of etiquette that it always blows my mind when folks don’t adhere to it really

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Luigi's act is interesting for what it reveals more than for what it engenders Widespread resentment at growing inequality, highest levels since Great Depression, especially for under 40s. The killer is white and not obviously "left-coded", made it harder for ruling class to divide public opinion.

submitted 62 days ago • 6 comments

Wrote a little on the loss of a public commons, in the spirit of the holiday, I suppose 🎄❤️ slowplayers.substack.com/p/slow-playe...

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

Finally got around this morning to reading @jasondiamond.bsky.social’s killer Baryshnikov piece. As MB was once (long ago) a family friend, it hits all the harder. Treat yourself

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment