Elaina Plott Calabro

Writer, @TheAtlantic. Writing a book about Frank M. Johnson and George Wallace for @penguinpress. Alum @nytimes. Tuscaloosa native. Ruth 1:16.

[Elaina Plott Calabro @elainaplott]

Canada gave its citizens the right to die. Ten years later, doctors are struggling to keep up with the demand. My story for the September issue of @TheAtlantic: https://t.co/UyizcvsILO

[Bob Kolker @bobkolker]

My latest, in @nytimes: a close look at why dementia science has seemed so stalled out for so long — and what new hopes there are now, finally for progress 🧠
https://t.co/fdJUYhvbDg via @NYTimes

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”

[Elaina Plott Calabro @elainaplott]

Honorable mentions:
The Group, Mary McCarthy
The Trouble I’ve Seen, Martha Gellhorn
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
The Patron Saint of Liars, Ann Patchett
The Colossus of New York, Colson Whitehead

[Elaina Plott Calabro @elainaplott]

A cruel exercise!

[Elaina Plott Calabro @elainaplott]

The Frozen Fields, Paul Bowles
Back the Way You Went, Anne Carson
The Sun and the Still-born Stars, Terry Southern

[brian @brianonhere]

please tell me 2-3 short stories you like that you can remember right off the dome without digging in to any lists or notes. maybe not favorite but ones you can cite off rip

1. p’s parties jhumpa lahiri
2. class war to nantucket
3. the kij johnson one about the bridge builder

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“There are moments, as the poet said, when the blind captain dreams of the sea.” —James Salter https://t.co/m6JTuhMdSs

[Elaina Plott Calabro @elainaplott]

unranked, though The Night Of may in fact be first...

[Elaina Plott Calabro @elainaplott]

@brilewerke @CaitlinClark22 Congrats!!! What an achievement!

[Elaina Plott Calabro @elainaplott]

@_NickKelly @yea_ala lol

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Until 2019, when he attempted to kill one of his students, Michael Barisone was a leading rider and trainer in the horse-handling sport of dressage. He has never seriously contested the idea that, on August 7, 2019, he shot Lauren Kanarek twice. But still, he positions himself as a victim.

In 2022, Barisone was tried in New Jersey for attempted murder. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity. “This was a remarkable verdict,” Ian Parker writes. “Fewer than one per cent of Americans charged with felonies plead insanity, and the great majority of those who do have previously been hospitalized with a serious psychiatric condition. Barisone had no history of serious mental illness, and by the end of 2023 he had no such illness, according both to his own account and to the State of New Jersey.”

“This rare court-sanctioned narrative—sanity, criminal insanity, quick reversion to sanity—might seem like tremendous luck, given that he faced a decade or two in prison,” Parker continues. “But this isn’t how Barisone has experienced his freedom. It wasn’t surprising to hear him mourn what he’d lost since shooting someone in the chest twice. But it was striking to hear how fiercely he resented having lost anything at all.” In this week’s issue, Parker reports on the case: https://t.co/pWnXysaZyb

[Amanda Fortini @amandafortini]

Annie Dillard, hero to so many of us writers.

[Elaina Plott Calabro @elainaplott]

@delia_cai I would simply move

[Elaina Plott Calabro @elainaplott]

@hivehotties I interned with Emily in college and can confirm that she is absolutely a genius!

[AL.com @aldotcom]

Ten Alabamians or those with connections to the state were among those who lost their lives on the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Here’s a look at their lives and the legacies they left behind as America marks the 25th anniversary of the attacks:

[Elaina Plott Calabro @elainaplott]

@maddiecarlisle2 @TheAtlantic 🙌🙌🙌

[FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup @FIBAWWC]

Caitlin Clark posing together with a better player than herself 🫢

#FIBAWWC

[FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup @FIBAWWC]

CAITLIN. ELIZABETH. CLARK. 🎯

From way downtown ☄️

#FIBAWWC

[Michael Pina @MichaelVPina]

i wrote about the denver nuggets and their unforgivably embarrassing summer: https://t.co/JwGu7YlGKJ

[AL.com @aldotcom]

ICYMI: Ralph Lauren has unveiled a collaboration with world-renowned textile artists from Gee’s Bend, featuring a limited-edition collection that transforms the Alabama community’s century-old quilting tradition into contemporary apparel and home goods.

[Elaina Plott Calabro @elainaplott]

@RomeovilleKid I love her so much