Jeremy Gordon
@jeremygordon.bsky.social
My novel SEE FRIENDSHIP is out now, I edit on the culture desk at the Atlantic, my newsletter is at http://jeremygordon.substack.com, and my website is at https://jeremygordon.xyz
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Jeremy Gordon
@jeremygordon.bsky.social
· Feb 24
I'll be "on tour" for SEE FRIENDSHIP in March and April, hitting up San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Providence with the help of Jay Caspian Kang, @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social, @apcbapcb.bsky.social, and @alexlaughs.bsky.social. We will also be screening the film SUPERBAD at Nitehawk
The other day I discovered a sealed bag of penne under our kitchen hutch. Neither my wife or I recall buying it; it's from a Turkish brand we aren't familiar with; we don't get our groceries delivered; it was packaged this year, and nobody has stayed in our place. Mystery pasta—kind of spooky...
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The other day I discovered a sealed bag of penne under our kitchen hutch. Neither my wife or I recall buying it; it's from a Turkish brand we aren't familiar with; we don't get our groceries delivered; it was packaged this year, and nobody has stayed in our place. Mystery pasta—kind of spooky...
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Just digging through old emails on a regular Wednesday morning
November 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Just digging through old emails on a regular Wednesday morning
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The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
n.pr
October 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
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Don't let anyone tell you cultural criticism is dead. But someone does have to pay for it.
I toured through the commentary circuit on TikTok, Letterboxd, and other places where the rules of criticism are changing in inspiring ... and depressing ... ways— www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
I toured through the commentary circuit on TikTok, Letterboxd, and other places where the rules of criticism are changing in inspiring ... and depressing ... ways— www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
Traditional Criticism Is in Trouble. Here’s What’s Replacing It.
Demand for cultural commentary is higher than it’s ever been—but now that commentary is coming from unconventional new sources.
www.theatlantic.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Don't let anyone tell you cultural criticism is dead. But someone does have to pay for it.
I toured through the commentary circuit on TikTok, Letterboxd, and other places where the rules of criticism are changing in inspiring ... and depressing ... ways— www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
I toured through the commentary circuit on TikTok, Letterboxd, and other places where the rules of criticism are changing in inspiring ... and depressing ... ways— www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
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“The problem the profession faces is material, not spiritual. Culture still craves good criticism—someone just has to pay for it.”
Like everything else, professional arts criticism has been under attack this year, and Spencer Kornhaber reported a really great piece on what might be taking its place: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
Traditional Criticism Is in Trouble. Here’s What’s Replacing It.
Demand for cultural commentary is higher than it’s ever been—but now that commentary is coming from unconventional new sources.
www.theatlantic.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
“The problem the profession faces is material, not spiritual. Culture still craves good criticism—someone just has to pay for it.”
Like everything else, professional arts criticism has been under attack this year, and Spencer Kornhaber reported a really great piece on what might be taking its place: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
Traditional Criticism Is in Trouble. Here’s What’s Replacing It.
Demand for cultural commentary is higher than it’s ever been—but now that commentary is coming from unconventional new sources.
www.theatlantic.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Like everything else, professional arts criticism has been under attack this year, and Spencer Kornhaber reported a really great piece on what might be taking its place: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
Here is a wonderful essay from @danbrooks.bsky.social on the encroachment of MMA culture into all walks of American life, and what you yourself can—and can't—learn from fighting www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
‘Warrior Culture’ Offers a Lot, but Not Everything
A growing appreciation for hand-to-hand combat has permeated nearly all levels of American life. What does that mean?
www.theatlantic.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Here is a wonderful essay from @danbrooks.bsky.social on the encroachment of MMA culture into all walks of American life, and what you yourself can—and can't—learn from fighting www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
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My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:06 AM
My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
The shamelessness coursing through modern society is nothing new, but more and more I think it's the defining tension of the 21st century — attempting to live a meaningful life, characterized by meaningful beliefs, can feel so silly when measured against such rife shamelessness. (At least for me...)
September 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The shamelessness coursing through modern society is nothing new, but more and more I think it's the defining tension of the 21st century — attempting to live a meaningful life, characterized by meaningful beliefs, can feel so silly when measured against such rife shamelessness. (At least for me...)
This is Sunday — it's going to be really good
This Sunday, come to the Brooklyn Book Fest and watch me bother @andrealongchu.bsky.social, @jeremygordon.bsky.social, and Sarah Chihaya about criticism
The Fiction Impulse in Nonfiction Criticism - Brooklyn Book Festival
Three literary critics consider the boundary between fiction and nonfiction, literature and criticism. While Sarah Chihaya (Bibliophobia), Andrea Long Chu (Authority), and Jeremy Gordon (See Friendshi...
brooklynbookfestival.org
September 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This is Sunday — it's going to be really good
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This Sunday, come to the Brooklyn Book Fest and watch me bother @andrealongchu.bsky.social, @jeremygordon.bsky.social, and Sarah Chihaya about criticism
The Fiction Impulse in Nonfiction Criticism - Brooklyn Book Festival
Three literary critics consider the boundary between fiction and nonfiction, literature and criticism. While Sarah Chihaya (Bibliophobia), Andrea Long Chu (Authority), and Jeremy Gordon (See Friendshi...
brooklynbookfestival.org
September 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This Sunday, come to the Brooklyn Book Fest and watch me bother @andrealongchu.bsky.social, @jeremygordon.bsky.social, and Sarah Chihaya about criticism
I'm doing a panel at the Brooklyn Book Festival on September 21 with Andrea Long Chu, Sarah Chihaya, and Daniel Drake — no spoilers, but we're solving books. Come through if you can make it, event info here: brooklynbookfestival.org/event/the-fi...
September 15, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I'm doing a panel at the Brooklyn Book Festival on September 21 with Andrea Long Chu, Sarah Chihaya, and Daniel Drake — no spoilers, but we're solving books. Come through if you can make it, event info here: brooklynbookfestival.org/event/the-fi...
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In “Muscle Man,” a new novel about a socially awkward, contrarian professor, Jordan Castro shows how private grievances can blossom into grand obsessions, @jeremygordon.bsky.social writes:
A Complex Portrait of a Contrarian Crank
An alienated professor takes up weight lifting and ranting in Jordan Castro’s perceptive new novel, Muscle Man.
bit.ly
September 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
In “Muscle Man,” a new novel about a socially awkward, contrarian professor, Jordan Castro shows how private grievances can blossom into grand obsessions, @jeremygordon.bsky.social writes:
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I wrote about the jacked, radicalized minds of Jordan Castro's new novel MUSCLE MAN
In “Muscle Man,” a new novel about a socially awkward, contrarian professor, Jordan Castro shows how private grievances can blossom into grand obsessions, @jeremygordon.bsky.social writes:
A Complex Portrait of a Contrarian Crank
An alienated professor takes up weight lifting and ranting in Jordan Castro’s perceptive new novel, Muscle Man.
bit.ly
September 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I wrote about the jacked, radicalized minds of Jordan Castro's new novel MUSCLE MAN
I wrote about the jacked, radicalized minds of Jordan Castro's new novel MUSCLE MAN
In “Muscle Man,” a new novel about a socially awkward, contrarian professor, Jordan Castro shows how private grievances can blossom into grand obsessions, @jeremygordon.bsky.social writes:
A Complex Portrait of a Contrarian Crank
An alienated professor takes up weight lifting and ranting in Jordan Castro’s perceptive new novel, Muscle Man.
bit.ly
September 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I wrote about the jacked, radicalized minds of Jordan Castro's new novel MUSCLE MAN
I was on the New Books Network podcast talking SEE FRIENDSHIP and many assorted topics newbooksnetwork.com/see-friendship
September 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I was on the New Books Network podcast talking SEE FRIENDSHIP and many assorted topics newbooksnetwork.com/see-friendship
Instead of speed reading 17 pages over 6 train stops I am listening to Pitbull and “liking” one billion posts
September 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Instead of speed reading 17 pages over 6 train stops I am listening to Pitbull and “liking” one billion posts
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Bobby Hill, the sensitive tween of “King of the Hill,” is now an adult—with extremely Millennial anxieties, writes @jeremygordon.bsky.social:
Bobby Hill’s Very Millennial Sorta-Adulthood
The sensitive tween of “King of the Hill” has now grown up—and captures the anxieties of a generation.
bit.ly
August 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Bobby Hill, the sensitive tween of “King of the Hill,” is now an adult—with extremely Millennial anxieties, writes @jeremygordon.bsky.social:
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love this from @mitchtherieau.bsky.social on the difficulty we have historicizing Obama-era musical trends and how folk-rock in particular was “about the capture of social life”
The Tragedy Of “Stomp Clap Hey” | Defector
In 1971, the great rock critic Lester Bangs tried to imagine a time when the music of the recent past would seem alien. Projecting himself into the old age he would never reach, he pictured his future...
defector.com
August 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
love this from @mitchtherieau.bsky.social on the difficulty we have historicizing Obama-era musical trends and how folk-rock in particular was “about the capture of social life”
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Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war.
She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.
tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb
She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.
tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb
Multiple journalists killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital
A hospital strike in southern Gaza has killed at least eight people, including four journalists. The attack happened on Monday.
apnews.com
August 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war.
She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.
tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb
She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.
tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb
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I wrote about Bobby Hill, my favorite millennial www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
Bobby Hill Has Finally Grown Up. Kinda.
The sensitive tween of “King of the Hill” is now an adult—with extremely Millennial anxieties.
www.theatlantic.com
August 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I wrote about Bobby Hill, my favorite millennial www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
I wrote about Bobby Hill, my favorite millennial www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
Bobby Hill Has Finally Grown Up. Kinda.
The sensitive tween of “King of the Hill” is now an adult—with extremely Millennial anxieties.
www.theatlantic.com
August 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I wrote about Bobby Hill, my favorite millennial www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
The first of these is tonight — they're saying an evening of readings has never been so anticipated
Chicago — I'm in town for two novel-related readings. The first is on August 22 at Pilsen Community Books at 7 p.m.; the second is on August 23 at Bookends and Beginnings in Evanston at 2 p.m. I'll be reading with some great people, so come through if you're around
August 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The first of these is tonight — they're saying an evening of readings has never been so anticipated
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Last book completed: @jeremygordon.bsky.social's See Friendship
Currently reading: @jaysongreene.bsky.social's UnWorld
Both highly recommended!
Currently reading: @jaysongreene.bsky.social's UnWorld
Both highly recommended!
In response to this, name the last book that you read that you would recommend.
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Americans spend less time reading for fun and more time on screens: Study
Fewer Americans are opening a book for fun each day, with reading for pleasure in the U.S. down 40% over the past 20 years, a new study published Wednesday found.
abcnews.go.com
August 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Last book completed: @jeremygordon.bsky.social's See Friendship
Currently reading: @jaysongreene.bsky.social's UnWorld
Both highly recommended!
Currently reading: @jaysongreene.bsky.social's UnWorld
Both highly recommended!