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incredible quote lol
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
incredible quote lol
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It's happened. I've written the most important piece of my life.
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An Illuminating Conversation With The Man Who Was Willem Dafoe’s Stunt Penis | Defector
For years, a rumor has floated around about the length of Willem Dafoe’s penis. Willem Dafoe’s penis is said to be extra-large. It is allegedly so big, in fact, that after filming nude scenes in the 2...
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November 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
It's happened. I've written the most important piece of my life.
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Can Zohran Mamdani keep New Yorkers safe from remembering some Arsenal guys? defector.com/can-zohran-m...
Can Zohran Mamdani Keep New Yorkers Safe From Remembering Some Arsenal Guys? | Defector
Zohran Mamdani is weeks away from becoming Mayor of New York City. As someone who does not live in the city but nevertheless has a lot of opinions about what goes on there, I want his administration…
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November 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Can Zohran Mamdani keep New Yorkers safe from remembering some Arsenal guys? defector.com/can-zohran-m...
this is gorgeous and moving
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
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The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
this is gorgeous and moving
have lived in the US for 15 years and this is how I learned that “it’s a bit of a gong show” is a Canadian figure of speech
How A Campy 1970s Game Show Became Part Of Canada's National Lexicon | Defector
On tiny Hornby Island northwest of Vancouver, after the Women’s World Cup in the summer of 2015, our bed-and-breakfast host was telling us about the town. The pizza place in the park is terrific, he s...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
have lived in the US for 15 years and this is how I learned that “it’s a bit of a gong show” is a Canadian figure of speech
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This is the best thing I've ever done, could not recommend more that people apply!
We’re accepting applications for our (paid! remote!) summer internship! professors who follow me please share with any students interested in writing
Would You Like To Be Defector’s Sixth-Ever Editorial Intern? | Defector
Big news: Defector is looking to hire editorial interns for the summer of 2026. Wow! That could be you! How could it be you? I am here to answer that question, and many more. What will a Defector inte...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This is the best thing I've ever done, could not recommend more that people apply!
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“The state and the different settler factions may quarrel over timing, optics, and methodology, but they agree on the destination.”
Good Settler, Bad Settler | Defector
This article has been adapted from a piece published Nov. 16 on the author’s Substack page. Last week, after masked settlers torched a mosque in Salfit, set fire to Palestinian trucks in Huwara, and b...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
“The state and the different settler factions may quarrel over timing, optics, and methodology, but they agree on the destination.”
We’re accepting applications for our (paid! remote!) summer internship! professors who follow me please share with any students interested in writing
Would You Like To Be Defector’s Sixth-Ever Editorial Intern? | Defector
Big news: Defector is looking to hire editorial interns for the summer of 2026. Wow! That could be you! How could it be you? I am here to answer that question, and many more. What will a Defector inte...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
We’re accepting applications for our (paid! remote!) summer internship! professors who follow me please share with any students interested in writing
“The state and the different settler factions may quarrel over timing, optics, and methodology, but they agree on the destination.”
Good Settler, Bad Settler | Defector
This article has been adapted from a piece published Nov. 16 on the author’s Substack page. Last week, after masked settlers torched a mosque in Salfit, set fire to Palestinian trucks in Huwara, and b...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
“The state and the different settler factions may quarrel over timing, optics, and methodology, but they agree on the destination.”
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frankly i'd rather buy the cursed chapbook of rfk jr's felching poetry than subscribe to ryan lizza's substack
November 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
frankly i'd rather buy the cursed chapbook of rfk jr's felching poetry than subscribe to ryan lizza's substack
not defending rfk here but neither am I in a position to critique the leaked erotic missives of anyone else on earth lol
November 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
not defending rfk here but neither am I in a position to critique the leaked erotic missives of anyone else on earth lol
Trump meeting is even funnier when you picture JD Vance getting redder and redder as he watches
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Trump meeting is even funnier when you picture JD Vance getting redder and redder as he watches
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Today is Free Friday at Defector! Everything we post on Bluesky all through the weekend will be a gift link. 🎁
November 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Today is Free Friday at Defector! Everything we post on Bluesky all through the weekend will be a gift link. 🎁
naming the voice actors in a new Ken Burns doc
November 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
naming the voice actors in a new Ken Burns doc
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I'm honored to have written a blog for @defector.com that generated an outsized number of pageviews or new registrations in the past year.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I'm honored to have written a blog for @defector.com that generated an outsized number of pageviews or new registrations in the past year.
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loved @redford.bsky.social on Shadow Ticket
Thomas Pynchon is laughing all the way to the brink:
Thomas Pynchon Is Laughing All The Way To The Brink | Defector
Thomas Pynchon’s reputation precedes him. He is literature’s ur-diagnostician of the post-war psyche, the author of difficult doorstopper novels, and a sort of prophet of paranoia—someone ahead of…
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November 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
loved @redford.bsky.social on Shadow Ticket
A lovely review!
I'm just thrilled to have this piece up at @defector.com, on Joshua Wheeler's debut novel, THE HIGH HEAVEN, from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. I loved this book, and getting to work with @brandyjensen.bsky.social and have this run at Defector is a real dream come true. Gift link below, but subscribe!
‘The High Heaven’ Is A Beautifully Grounded Debut Novel | Defector
We first meet Izzy Gently, the protagonist of Joshua Wheeler’s captivating debut novel, The High Heaven, as a child. She is alone, wounded, and wandering. The year is 1967, and disaster has befallen t...
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November 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
A lovely review!
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I'm just thrilled to have this piece up at @defector.com, on Joshua Wheeler's debut novel, THE HIGH HEAVEN, from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. I loved this book, and getting to work with @brandyjensen.bsky.social and have this run at Defector is a real dream come true. Gift link below, but subscribe!
‘The High Heaven’ Is A Beautifully Grounded Debut Novel | Defector
We first meet Izzy Gently, the protagonist of Joshua Wheeler’s captivating debut novel, The High Heaven, as a child. She is alone, wounded, and wandering. The year is 1967, and disaster has befallen t...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I'm just thrilled to have this piece up at @defector.com, on Joshua Wheeler's debut novel, THE HIGH HEAVEN, from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. I loved this book, and getting to work with @brandyjensen.bsky.social and have this run at Defector is a real dream come true. Gift link below, but subscribe!
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Olivia Nuzzi addresses the worm: defector.com/olivia-nuzzi...
Olivia Nuzzi Addresses The Worm | Defector
On Monday, Vanity Fair published the first excerpt of Olivia Nuzzi’s monograph to sexting with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a book titled American Canto. The book, as Nuzzi claimed in a glamorized profile…
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November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Olivia Nuzzi addresses the worm: defector.com/olivia-nuzzi...
I would love to read an account of this saga that isn’t written in an atrociously purple way but seems like that’s too much to ask of anyone involved
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I would love to read an account of this saga that isn’t written in an atrociously purple way but seems like that’s too much to ask of anyone involved
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Email from a student who turned in a ChatGPT essay. Not even looking at the ChatGPT output in the apology 🥴
![Dear [Professor’s Name],
I want to sincerely apologize for my actions regarding my midterm submission.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fs6z2b756buwsdsjkle6utfi/bafkreiecvhzfgr4tlwyy2mvpbvjncqkysytwsxvidaoressh7peonoso3y@jpeg)
November 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Email from a student who turned in a ChatGPT essay. Not even looking at the ChatGPT output in the apology 🥴
90s rapper voice: the bullet theoretical
November 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
90s rapper voice: the bullet theoretical