Boris Kachka

Books editor at @TheAtlantic. Formerly @latimes, @NYMag, author (Hothouse).

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@svershbow [email protected].

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@zadri Yeah this is like saying, "Everyone does coke on the weekends, it's irresistible." Not really, and you might have a problem.

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@davidulin @longdrivesouth @latimes I had a great meal there.

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@mgoldsm Of all the tech weirdos online, the music dissenters are the strangest.

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@willystaley New kind of ableism just dropped.

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@stephenrodrick I'll be sure to read it right after I get through the three long drafts my writers all filed at 4pm so that *they* can have a relaxing weekend.

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That bittersweet editor sensation at the start of a long weekend: People touching more grass and clicking on fewer stories.

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@stephenrodrick Oh no

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@JoyceCarolOates I mean this as homage (I adore "Pale Fire").

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Even JCO sometimes nods

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Nabokov thought this? interesting, & very honest of him.
"Pale Fire" has much to recommend it including that remarkable poem. but it is hardly a great novel even set beside "Lolita"--its comedy is too heavy-handed, insistent. like Peter Sellers with a drooping mustache, hamming it up.

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As first requested and reported earlier today in @TheAtlantic by the great Vauhini Vara (but/and the visualization really helps!) https://t.co/GXjA2EHcIV

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We tested every Commonwealth Short Story Prize winner since 2012. We found three more AI-generated stories -- two among the 2026 winners, as well as the 2025 overall winner.

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@AlbertRolls1 @lilyburana Of course!

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Guess who grew up in this house.

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@lilyburana Nope!

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@rob_rubsam And no Pynchon.

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I love this art, I love the books, so happy to be involved with it: https://t.co/vNpXVCdDHp

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I hate "transplant" discourse. I immigrated to NYC when I was 2. Most of my closest friends now did not grow up here. One of the few things I disliked in LA was the attitude toward transplants. I get the economic arguments but the instinctive revulsion is beta city behavior.

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@willystaley @Liamjsm So this is where I grew up and, correct.

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@realaxelfoley Your best take yet.

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Then there are those who attach a word doc still full of notes.

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There are two types of journalist
Those who file in the CMS and those who google doc in case CMS crashes.