Jason Roberts

Author. Latest: EVERY LIVING THING: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life (Random House US/Canada, Quercus UK)

[Jason Roberts @itsJason]

Hey, Tuesday (March 10) is the deadline to apply for this year’s summer workshops at the Community of Writers, where I’ll be on staff. If you’re ready for a week in the mountains, immersed in craft, come join us in the Olympic Valley, near Lake Tahoe.

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[Jason Roberts @itsJason]

This. Has. To. Stop.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

Today is the tipping point.

[Jason Roberts @itsJason]

Alex Pretti was murdered.

[John Fugelsang @JohnFugelsang]

BRANDO: “It finally came to me from Jimmy [Baldwin], who was so good at setting me straight. Happiness, he told me, is a very typical pursuit of the spoiled, who have, for the most part, had things brought to their tables, their attention, their inspection. I needed to pursue not happiness, he told me, but discernment.
“You understand, he said to me, the ability and the art of editing a film. You can transform a performance by what you clip or elide or move. A stunningly bad actor or performance can be transformed by how and where you place it. It has been edited, and so it is not an honest—or realistic—presentation of what took place.
“Well, we don’t understand reality too well. We think that what is placed before us is real, because we are either lazy or stupid—we don’t look around for what else is out there or within us or within each other, so we say, This is real. But if we remove the negative friend, the toxic thought, the temptations that topple us, then a new ‘reality’ appears. We get the reality we build, edit, post, print, distribute.
“Don’t accept the evil thought, the prejudiced view, the pessimistic view of the world. Accept a role in making the world better, and go out and edit it. That is what Jimmy always sought to do: Edit the world; edit his friends; edit himself."

-Marlon Brando
Interview with James Grissom, 1990

[Amanda Litman @amandalitman]

“Please get the truth out about our son.”

[Jason Roberts @itsJason]

“Let every child inside me find her shoes.”

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

This will forever be the greatest email.

[Jason Roberts @itsJason]

So, the dominant paradigm used to be stupidity. Now it’s evil.

Literally evil.

[Jason Roberts @itsJason]

Thank you!

[🅰️🆂🥧👁r¡🆖 @NonLocalityGuy]

@itsJason Astonishingly well-deserved! My favorite, Sense of the World, a masterclass—and now the world is rightly making sense of your brilliance. Congratulations!

[Jason Roberts @itsJason]

I have somehow won the Pulitzer Prize.

https://t.co/gPs0eZ6BRH

[Jason Roberts @itsJason]

Some people wrote a lot of checks. They plumped up other people’s (bank) balances.

[Nancy Sinatra @NancySinatra]

I have a serious question:
What happened to checks and balances?

[Jason Roberts @itsJason]

Yay, @AmyTan! This book is a gift to ALL readers.

[Jason Roberts @itsJason]

That’s the point of the appointment.

[John Basham @JohnBasham]

REPORT: FDA Employees Are Threatening Quitting If @RobertKennedyJr Joins Trump's Administration..

[Jason Roberts @itsJason]

For the next four years, America is going to marinate in cruelty.

[Jason Roberts @itsJason]

Charles Dickens, writing in 1842 about the United States: “I do fear that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty will be dealt by this country in the failure of its example to the earth.”

[Liz Camfiord @lcamfio]

@itsJason @CalibaBooks Thank you for writing such an interesting and beautiful book!

[Julia Scott @juliascribe]

"In order to save life on this planet, we need to stop pretending we can understand it." Brilliant and refreshing talk by @itsJason last night @MrsDsBooks

[Jason Roberts @itsJason]

WOO HOO!!