How North Shore writer and podcaster Joe Friedrichs began to unravel the mystery of Bryce Campbell, the resort owner accused of burning down the historic Lutsen Lodge. https://t.co/EhONcOhWV3
“Every generation, someone like me who has done a lot of profiles announces the death of the profile, and it’s never true.” - @taffyakner https://t.co/SPzjycan3B
Record labels, studios, talent agents, political campaigns, and more have been hiring companies to turn a song, trailer, interview, etc., into social-media-friendly fragments. The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show. https://t.co/6OfkHo8isJ
new @NewYorker column, on the rise of hyperlocal neighborhood email newsletters, solo shoe-leather operations telling you what's going on on your block.
In Brooklyn alone there's the Carroll Gardens Times, the Court Street Journal, the Grand Army Gazette, the Boerum Bulletin...
The folks behind Saturday Dumpling Co. are opening a full-service barbecue restaurant in downtown Minneapolis at the former Izzy's Ice Cream space. https://t.co/srC5fYNjws
burner accounts, trend simulation, manufactured discourse: music marketers are embracing new online tools to get ears on new music. is it just business as usual? and ARE Geese an industry plant?
I investigate music's dirty little secret, for @WIRED .
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.@CaityWeaver has discovered the best free restaurant bread in America—and she’s going to tell you where to find it.
For The Atlantic’s May 2026 cover story, she surveyed more than 500 people and traveled more than 13,000 miles to track it down: https://t.co/ubo3GfHxY1
I built a dashboard to explore the last 25+ years of @nytimes coverage. 1.5B words, 2.2M articles, 26K reporters. It's fascinating to look at the world’s preeminent news organization not as daily stories but as patterns of attention, ebbing and flowing. https://t.co/CoE22qsBtb
For the newly relaunched Magazine, I wrote about the complete reshaping of human culture by the Phone, and our weakness before it — and how it reminds me of a canonical A.I. doom scenario. https://t.co/6pxslAPXN0
The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman that I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @NewYorker, with @andrewmarantz: https://t.co/HEPHN4E54P
Ben Lerner is among the most prominent writers in America, a man trusted to steward two dying arts, the novel and the poem. “A sign of maturity as a writer, I realize now,” he says, “is that I no longer pretend I understand what exactly my work is saying or doing.” https://t.co/eY9j6cBkX1