Steph Cha

This guy has the scared bravado of an absolute booger eater who’s gotten in with the school bully. He’s been told to brazen it out, and is only half convinced that it’ll work, as the current strategy depends on selling child rape as a character flaw for the child.

Ramaswamy does not have the con man charisma of Donald Trump (and neither does booger eater number one J.D. Vance). He must be so nervous saying this actual dog shit while Trump is out there exhibiting dementia every five minutes.

Hey, it’s Best American day! This is my sixth volume as series editor of Best American Mystery and Suspense, and I had the honor of working with my revered friend @meganabbott.bsky.social to select these 20 exceptional stories.

Every day I feel bombarded by cynical, meaningless output by people who don’t think and don’t care, and a culture that devalues art and artists. And I feel more and more affection for dorky genre writers who put out stories because they want to, in niche publications run by other genre dorks.

Hey, it’s Best American day! This is my sixth volume as series editor of Best American Mystery and Suspense, and I had the honor of working with my revered friend @meganabbott.bsky.social to select these 20 exceptional stories.

Watched You Can See Everything yesterday, and my spoiler-free review is that it’s 155 minutes of Nathan Fielder doing the Larry David stare-down, and it gets better, funnier, deeper every minute.

I don’t think Billy is as mentally committed to the lies. He seemed like he had enough steam to keep up appearances for the initial filming—a battle they’d prepared for, on their own turf. But he lost it in the second half. God bless Amanda Seyfried.

Watched You Can See Everything yesterday, and my spoiler-free review is that it’s 155 minutes of Nathan Fielder doing the Larry David stare-down, and it gets better, funnier, deeper every minute.

She is deeply committed to her own innocence, though, and to this story she and her creepy partner constructed before they invited the cameras. (When they both said the monument to love thing, you know that shit was rehearsed like an alibi.) She put the mask on, and she made it into her face.

Watched You Can See Everything yesterday, and my spoiler-free review is that it’s 155 minutes of Nathan Fielder doing the Larry David stare-down, and it gets better, funnier, deeper every minute.

The phrasing was at best intentionally misleading, and there is just no way she was never informed of the way her statement was interpreted, and had no opportunity to cure the misunderstanding, which happened to positively impact her company’s valuation.

Watched You Can See Everything yesterday, and my spoiler-free review is that it’s 155 minutes of Nathan Fielder doing the Larry David stare-down, and it gets better, funnier, deeper every minute.

I don’t buy that she’d never heard of, and also failed to understand “Who’s on First?” She must have known the “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘can’ is” bit was dicey, and when Nathan mentioned “Who’s on First?” reminding them of an earlier conversation, she must have been on alert.

Watched You Can See Everything yesterday, and my spoiler-free review is that it’s 155 minutes of Nathan Fielder doing the Larry David stare-down, and it gets better, funnier, deeper every minute.

I think Elizabeth Holmes is full of shit, but like most great liars, believes her shit earnestly when it suits her. There is no way she didn’t understand the plain reading of her claim about the device’s capabilities. But she probably had enough conviction to play innocent years later, on camera.

Watched You Can See Everything yesterday, and my spoiler-free review is that it’s 155 minutes of Nathan Fielder doing the Larry David stare-down, and it gets better, funnier, deeper every minute.

I wondered who, in 2023, would invite Nathan Fielder to film them in their home, and the movie at least solved that mystery for me. The answer: a medium smart guy who thinks he can outsmart one of the most brilliant minds of our time.

I was a National Book Awards judge in 2023, and one of the finalists was This Other Eden by Paul Harding, not just any straight white man, but a straight white man who had already won a Pulitzer. He was also shortlisted for the Booker that year.

Incredibly, Your House Will Be Pay made this list of the 50 best thrillers of the 21st Century. It is probably the 50th bestselling book on there, and I’m grateful to everyone who included it in their ballots.

The Turnout (Abbott) Await Your Reply (Chaon) Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead (Gran) She Rides Shotgun (Harper) Bluebird, Bluebird (Locke) The Sympathizer (Nguyen) These Women (Pochoda) Lush Life (Price) American Spy (Wilkinson) The Power of the Dog (Winslow)

Incredibly, Your House Will Be Pay made this list of the 50 best thrillers of the 21st Century. It is probably the 50th bestselling book on there, and I’m grateful to everyone who included it in their ballots.

The Turnout (Abbott) Await Your Reply (Chaon) Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead (Gran) She Rides Shotgun (Harper) Bluebird, Bluebird (Locke) The Sympathizer (Nguyen) These Women (Pochoda) Lush Life (Price) American Spy (Wilkinson) The Power of the Dog (Winslow)

Incredibly, Your House Will Be Pay made this list of the 50 best thrillers of the 21st Century. It is probably the 50th bestselling book on there, and I’m grateful to everyone who included it in their ballots.

I chose not to publish my ballot because it was a strategically selected subset of my actual list, which was something like 25 books long, that guessed at the likelihood of various titles to make it into the running.

Incredibly, Your House Will Be Pay made this list of the 50 best thrillers of the 21st Century. It is probably the 50th bestselling book on there, and I’m grateful to everyone who included it in their ballots.

I chose not to publish my ballot because it was a strategically selected subset of my actual list, which was something like 25 books long, that guessed at the likelihood of various titles to make it into the running.

Incredibly, Your House Will Be Pay made this list of the 50 best thrillers of the 21st Century. It is probably the 50th bestselling book on there, and I’m grateful to everyone who included it in their ballots.