Will Weisser

"Of making many books there is no end." - Ecclesiastes 12:12

Back-to-back in my inbox, from @chriscillizza.bsky.social and @jvl.bsky.social 🤔

Is this the NYT or The Onion? @bencollins.bsky.social your addition of Vanilla Ice is 💯

Very big - a must read!

As usual, it's the little details of prose (beyond the capacity of any AI) that make all the difference. A simple statement is never just a simple statement.

“If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” - Coral Hart "Who’s going to win the race? I’m sorry, I didn’t realize book publishing turned into the Indy 500." - Kathleen Schmidt 🔥🔥🔥

Who says Americans can't agree on anything anymore?

A perfect book cover blurb!

My kids know an American flag when they see one – but they don't yet know all that it represents. When they're old enough, here is what I'm going to tell them:

I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t. Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...

Are you okay

When Half The Supreme Court Has Book Deals With The Same Publisher, Who Decides Its Cases? When five Supreme Court Justices recuse themselves from a single case, that's news. When they do it because most of them have book deals with the same publisher, that's potentially a problem. Last week's…

Gosh, I wonder why trust in media is at an all time low? (HT @publisherslunch.bsky.social)

Big thank you to Ali @velshi.com for giving me a healthy chunk of air time to explain the Econ 101 of bilateral trade deficits. It matters because this is the intellectual foundation for the President's trade war.

Wrote about how, for all of the "fears" about LLMs "hallucinating," the Trump administration (and Trump specifically) is way worse in hallucinating answers every single time. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/t...

"We are now seeing a generation of 70-year-olds who called for the departure of an 81-year-old fail to understand how anyone under 60 gets information about the world." 🔥🔥🔥

Promoting your stuff in 2025 is weird but anyway everythingistb.com

How to turn a book you hate and fear into a bestseller, in one simple step...

Thank you for this, @profgalloway.com.

"For something objectively unimportant to drive so many of us insane—to obsession, distraction—deeper forces than mere logic must be in play. (To remind: Sean’s essay in Publisher’s Weekly got coverage in two separate New York Times pieces.)" 💯💯💯

We’re doing a 60 day free trial. Because today feels like a good day to sign up for The Bulwark.

Great point by @matthewyglasias.bsky.social: "One of the big frustrations of journalism is you write the stories about what you think you know, not what you know you don’t know. And yet, Trump is irreducibly enigmatic... You can’t ever predict what he’s going to do" substack.com/home/post/p-...

"As an author, getting the story right is the most important part of writing a book, but getting the story of the story right is the most important part of promoting it, of getting readers to want to buy it." - Maris Kreizman

"TikTok, 'bout to chop, SCOTUS tryna make it stop First right, is the fight, versus data mining gripe Byte this, Trump flipped, POTUS Musk has got his dick, now Oh whoa whoa oh oh. Whoa whoa Oh."

Imagine explaining to your ancestors that you scrolled Netflix for 2 hours and then just rewatched The Office

How did I get to be [cough] years old without hearing “Hard Candy Christmas”? Both the Dolly and Reba versions are amazing! Why don’t they get played by all the places that have Jingle Bell Rock on repeat? Merry Christmas (hard candy version or otherwise) to all who celebrate 🎄

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One of the best details in the movie: “All you can take with you is that which you've given away.”