Steve Larkin

Managing Editor, @washingreview

[Steve Larkin @stevielark]

@MattBrownEP I don't expect either of these things to happen, but do you know how the Big 12 suspending Texas Tech would affect their TV contract, and whether that would be different from individual teams in the conference refusing to play them? Thanks

[Steve Larkin @stevielark]

After 24 years of being made to do stupid party tricks by Doctor Faustus the demons should have been allowed to do this to him when he asked for Helen

[John Ganz @lionel_trolling]

I can't stop thinking about the 2000 year old bit where he talks about dating helen of troy's sister who "had a face that could stop a clock" but I can't figure out how to turn it into a joke

[Andrew Egger @EggerDC]

Probably just a coincidence but if the Potomac suddenly turns to blood we'll have to reevaluate

[Steve Larkin @stevielark]

The belief among proponents of a 24-team playoff that stakes can be added without consequences is similar to the belief among the people in charge of CFB that it can be optimized to print money without consequences. Are they sure they can ignore the gods of the copybook headings?

[Steve Larkin @stevielark]

Here's the thing: you can't create additional championship stakes. There's still only one championship all the teams are playing for. To give new playoff games stakes you have to redistribute them from somewhere else.

[Ralph D. Russo @ralphDrussoATH]

Another example of: Games are already being played, but they're being called bowls and have low stakes.

Why not rebrand them as playoffs?

Everything about expanding CFP has been and continues to be about taking games already being played and attaching actual stakes to them.

[Steve Larkin @stevielark]

Actually @washingreview is the only publication with "Review of Books" in its name

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

it's funny that you can just start a [CITY X] Review of Books. It's not like McDonald's or something, there's no franchise agreement.

[Steve Larkin @stevielark]

RETVRN to when hit movies could have titles based on lines of Tennyson

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

You can’t title this “Kind Hearts and Coronets” anymore, because of woke.

[Steve Larkin @stevielark]

Everybody forgets about John Adams and John Quincy Adams but me

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

he may have been the only president that was "one of us"

[Steve Larkin @stevielark]

Besides everything else the Washington Post's books section was far superior to the NYT's, and it was the only part of the Post of which this could be said

[Michael Calderone @mlcalderone]

The Post is eliminating Books section

[Steve Larkin @stevielark]

Readers of the @washingreview would have heard me discuss THE IRONY OF FATE, one of the greatest romantic comedies from anywhere, last month https://t.co/yHwtlif0Ke

[John Ganz @lionel_trolling]

On New Year's Day, I watched the classic Soviet romantic comedy "The Irony of Fate." It was very funny how the discarded love interests don't get any compensatory life development; It's just like, "Yes, they are lonely now."

[Steve Larkin @stevielark]

Realism in the novel began
In nineteen sixty-three
(which was rather late for me)—
Between the end of the Chatterley ban
And the Beatles’ first LP.

[LBark @franzsherbert]

Whig history for psychological representation in literature

[Steve Larkin @stevielark]

Conference championship games weren't built for anything but creating a new piece of valuable inventory to sell to TV networks. The existence of the SEC and B1G championship games has cost those conferences spots in the BCS and 4-team CFP multiple times

[David Ubben @davidubben]

I wrote last year the SEC and Big Ten title games are built for a postseason model that no longer exists.

Last year, the SEC's best team lost its starting QB. This year, the game might cost the league a spot in the Playoff.

Title games for those two leagues have to evolve.

[Steve Larkin @stevielark]

—There's a comedian, Patton Oswalt, who told me, "I think the worst part of the Cosby thing was the hypocrisy." And I disagree.
—You disagree with that?
—Yeah. I thought it was the raping.
https://t.co/Tkue63dCGe

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

I think one reason our culture has become more coarse, selfish, and money obsessed is that the public is more aware and condemnatory of hypocrisy, so people default to living their more base values, turns out a certain amount of hypocrisy is socially load bearing

[Steve Larkin @stevielark]

@tertius_taz I'm not sure I've ever read a novel in which the Long Island Rail Road was more important than it is in J R by William Gaddis (1975)

[Steve Larkin @stevielark]

1. J R by William Gaddis (1975)
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[Huw van Steenis @huwsteenis]

Many thanks to @flacqua and the @Bloomberg team for asking me to contribute

Full list here: The 82 Books That Top Business Leaders Couldn’t Put Down is in the comments.

https://t.co/M9s3XLyHXi

[Steve Larkin @stevielark]

I can't believe that the people who destroyed regional conferences and removed rivalries fans care about from the schedule assume hardcore fans will put up with anything. I can't believe that the people who want PE money make short-sighted decisions that promise immediate revenue

[Chris Vannini @ChrisVannini]

Really good story from @MattBakerCFB on college football following the business trend of pricing out middle-class fans. Not just FSU, but everywhere.

There is a real risk here of alienating the next generation of fans for the sake of money today.

https://t.co/AH6aSVYuYm

[Steve Larkin @stevielark]

@jwilson1812two @washingreview I didn't even mention Kenner or Davenport in this one! As always thank you

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

The Republican Party has nothing to offer downwardly mobile voters with graduate degrees. Just completely (economically, culturally) out of touch with this demographic.

[katie kadue @kukukadoo]

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[Steve Larkin @stevielark]

Will no one rid me of these turbulent Longhorns?

[Tom Fornelli @TomFornelli]

I'm going to become the Joker