Adam Sternbergh reposted
Adam Sternbergh
Adam Sternbergh
@sternbergh.bsky.social
culture editor, NYTimes Opinion novelist: THE EDEN TEST (out now); THE BLINDS; NEAR ENEMY; SHOVEL READY I wear suits now
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Adam Sternbergh reposted
It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
Adam Sternbergh reposted
Adam Sternbergh reposted
Siskel & Ebert are getting a memorial statue in Chicago. The bronze "Two Thumbs Up" statue marks a quarter century after their final TV appearance together. www.rogerebert.com/chazs-blog/s... #FilmSky
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once again the joke explainer is here to explain that “looks as if Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory” is not in fact a joke about the Cheesecake Factory
everyone trying to gin up culture war controversy around President Obama’s Cheesecake Factory joke is conveniently leaving out the part about Saddam Hussein We aren’t red states, or blue states, but a country of people who can agree that if Saddam opened a dessert franchise it would look very tacky
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Adam Sternbergh reposted
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just going to repost the best response I've seen about using generative AI to "make art," which comes from Kane Parsons, director of BACKROOMS and not exactly a luddite "art is a way of processing life... and I don't see the value of outsourcing any element of that" www.youtube.com/shorts/MwUnK...
‘Sudowrite, the “best AI for novel writing”, promises to maintain your ‘unique voice’. Whether or not you have a unique voice, it will give you scene directions and alternative options for the plot, and act as your editor.’ Alfred Nunney on AI and books, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/oc...
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The Devils was to be a one-week-only release, launching WB's new indie-ish and rerelease label Clockwork (which will purportedly survive the Skydance purchase). But it's done such big business ($2.3 million in five days) that it's staying in theaters. If you can, see this wild piece of film history.
Just saw the restored, NC-17 version of The Devils. 55 years later, Ken Russell remains A LOT, for better and worse. But OMG, Vanessa Redgrave. One of our greatest actresses 100% committing to a part that could have been camp. She and Derek Jarman's production design lift this into the stratosphere.
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this fascinating look at book monoculture reminds me of a publisher who said online that there's basically 4 types of books, sales-wise: 1) fails to find its audience; 2) finds its audience; 3) finds an audience beyond its audience; 4) becomes the book that people who read one book a year will read
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Replying to @marisakabas.bsky.social
Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.
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a recommendation from a trigun fan account on twitter by user bigolas dickolas woIfwood went so randomly viral it helped make Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone's novel This Is How You Lose the Time War a NYT bestseller four years after it was first published amalelmohtar.com/letter-of-ne...
Criterion's Complete Kubrick is what was inside the briefcase in PULP FICTION
I got extremely nerdy with Michael Chaiken, producer of Criterion's amazing new Complete Kubrick set! We talked about restoring Kubrick's shorts, the one shot in Eyes Wide Shut that still drove its DP crazy, and much more: www.avclub.com/the-complete...
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the big opening of YCSE is definitely real and true but also this is actually kind of a crazy list!
This was actually a fun stat to dive into, because by the time $10M+ openers were a thing, movies that could open that high were automatically going into 1,000+ theaters so it's not that long a list (discounting inflation obviously)
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is it bad when the voters top concern is also the thing your party does the most and the best www.mediaite.com/media/news/n...
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I have never posted a screen shot from the bad place but this is where I make an exception (via @andydehnart.com 's Reality Blurred newsletter)