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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips

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Senior Writer at The Ringer 🦉 NYT bestselling author of Impossible Owls 🦉 occasional podcast host (22 Goals, Truthless) 🦉 whippet fancier https://bookshop.org/p/books/impossible-owls-essays-brian-phillips/7310179?ean=9780374175337

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 8h

The illustration is so good, look at the dude’s hat flying off

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 41m

Didn’t we already do this at some point

The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 9h

I agree that NLMG is more viscerally moving. To me, The Unconsoled has stranger and richer depths — it's the one that seems to go on unfolding and unfolding in my brain. (The JW review is, uh, not his best work, but he was a kid when he wrote it, and all the career incentives then were to be mean.)

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 9h

you MADMAN

The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 10h

you've gone too far and I love it

The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 10h

It's so good! Very different from his other work, comparatively "difficult", but stunningly weird and beautiful, especially if you like Kafka-adjacent Central European modernism

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 10h

My *really* unhinged opinion is that it's probably his best book

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 10h

This is KIND of an unhinged literary opinion and I COULD NOT AGREE WITH IT MORE STRONGLY

Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 11h

The Unconsoled was one of the best books of the 20th century.

And it was FUNNY!

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 11h

Man never saw a punctuation mark he didn't love

The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 11h

Someone roll through with both middle fingers up and a claim that a) Trump wrote all of The Art of the Deal himself and b) The Art of the Deal is a masterpiece

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 11h

I like yours!

The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 11h

(Not me, I think she's great)

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 11h

Where's the discourse hero who will post "Patricia Lockwood sucks" and then log off for the day while all of Booksky races through their archive trying to be the first to uncover their bad politics

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 11h

Oh wow really, genre fiction is good, actually? Some long-dead male author is overrated? The process of canonization is problematic? What horrible 19th-century asylum were you chained up in when you developed these shocking countercultural takes

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 11h

All your unhinged literary opinions are so comprehensively hinged that I'm starting to suspect some of you aren't obeying the prompt

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 12h

This is good and we should say so because every outlet that does the right thing and sees praise and support for doing so makes it easier for the next outlet to do the same.

NPR @npr.org · 13h

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 20h

I wrote about Diane Keaton

Diane Keaton Was Effortlessly Original

The beloved actor was simultaneously the coolest person in Hollywood and also the person least aware of what anyone else thought was cool

www.theringer.com

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks Jon!

The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 20h

I wrote about Diane Keaton

Diane Keaton Was Effortlessly Original

The beloved actor was simultaneously the coolest person in Hollywood and also the person least aware of what anyone else thought was cool

www.theringer.com

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

"Just one largeish note!"

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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Jake Flores @feraljokes.bsky.social · 2d

I can't believe this is real

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 2d

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 3d

"Republicans blocked paying the troops during the shutdown but found $20 billion to bail out Argentina's bad crypto investments" should be the sort of thing that leads every local newscast, but...

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 3d

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 3d

The first person to stand up to Trump this term was a priest!

Ben B. @abominaldrvibes.bsky.social · 3d

I want everyone out there who looks down on faith in general to take a very close look at all of the faith leaders who are working tirelessly and putting themselves on the line to make the world better. Not all christians are evangelical, many actually take the new testament to heart.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Chanting, "we are the body of Christ! The body of Christ will be free!"

This crowd has swelled considerably. Few hundred here now.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 3d

Death penalty

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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