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culture editor, NYTimes Opinion novelist: THE EDEN TEST (out now); THE BLINDS; NEAR ENEMY; SHOVEL READY I wear suits now
@sternbergh.bsky.socialReposted by @sternbergh.bsky.socialbefore Trump all news was like this all the time
@robotleblanc.bsky.socialReposted by @sternbergh.bsky.socialfriday is for kafkaposting
@sternbergh.bsky.socialbefore Trump all news was like this all the time
@sternbergh.bsky.socialMeanwhile in Canada
@resnikoff.bsky.socialReposted by @sternbergh.bsky.socialI think about this interview with the distinguished philosopher Conan O'Brien a lot. I actually think this is a healthy way to live your life! www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/a...
![Is this how you want to go out, with a show that gets smaller and smaller until it’s gone?
Maybe that’s O.K. I think you have more of a problem with that than I do. [Laughs.] At this point in my career, I could go out with a grand, 21-gun salute, and climb into a rocket and the entire Supreme Court walks out and they jointly press a button, I’m shot up into the air and there’s an explosion and it’s orange and it spells, “Good night and God love.” In this culture? Two years later, it’s going to be, who’s Conan? This is going to sound grim, but eventually, all our graves go unattended.
You’re right, that does sound grim.
Sorry. Calvin Coolidge was a pretty popular president. I’ve been to his grave in Vermont. It has the presidential seal on it. Nobody was there. And by the way, I’m the only late-night host that has been to Calvin Coolidge’s grave. I think that’s what separates me from the other hosts.
I had a great conversation with Albert Brooks once. When I met him for the first time, I was kind of stammering. I said, you make movies, they live on forever. I just do these late-night shows, they get lost, they’re never seen again and who cares? And he looked at me and he said, [Albert Brooks voice] “What are you talking about? None of it matters.” None of it matters? “No, that’s the secret. In 1940, people said Clark Gable is the face of the 20th Century. Who [expletive] thinks about Clark Gable? It doesn’t matter. You’ll be forgotten. I’ll be forgotten. We’ll all be forgotten.” It’s so funny because you’d think that would depress me. I was walking on air after that.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:qnyq7wies2uc56bzqmfz4q25/bafkreief4hu7c6hd6ymgqnsaejlaipfuj7fq4ka2tkix72pionkb3dkkdy)
@greatdismal.bsky.socialReposted by @sternbergh.bsky.socialHaving long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
@sternbergh.bsky.socialmuse please call child services
@heydonnelly.bsky.socialReposted by @sternbergh.bsky.socialOnce I was sitting at the bar in Hudson’s bookstore/bar and an incredibly hot man in grandpa jeans was asking for Anne Carson’s then-new Nox (they did not have it), he was with a woman in big sunglasses and a tire jacket. It was, of course, Sam Shepard and Jessica Lange.
@sternbergh.bsky.socialAs for BEHEMOTH!: It's Tony Gilroy so the quality is assured, and unlike some reviews that fault it for being slight, I found it a really moving meditation on creativity, parenting, the weight of expectations, and the challenges of building an artful life. Also, funny! ymmv but I liked it a lot
@sternbergh.bsky.socialbig events in NYC are notoriously tricky to navigate/attend but now I've figured out the perfect hack, which is only go to the ones being held on Staten Island
@sternbergh.bsky.socialonline the screening was almost entirely sold-out but in person the theater was maybe 40% full? Which suggests a lot of people who bought tickets either a) didn't realize it was in Staten Island or b) did and bought tickets anyway then decided to bail either way, they missed a really good movie!
@sternbergh.bsky.socialI’m not a hero, I’m just a person who traveled by bus to Staten Island because there were a few single seats left for an NYFF screening of BEHEMOTH!
@ericdharvey.comReposted by @sternbergh.bsky.socialEva Marie Saint was born the year Lenin died and lived long enough to not hear "Choosin' Texas"
@katzish.bsky.socialReposted by @sternbergh.bsky.socialThis was my reaction too and I don't even know whether the "we" is humanists, women, people with the ability to read, Canadians, fans of Sappho, fans of Emily Dickinson, translators, classicists, or people who appreciate the feelings of sad red monsters. Either way, yes
@pjmaciak.bsky.socialReposted by @sternbergh.bsky.socialMy review of this won't be out for a minute, but CUPERTINO slaps. Robert and Michelle King have done it yet again!
@grantamag.bsky.socialReposted by @sternbergh.bsky.socialWe congratulate Anne Carson, winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Carson is a contributing editor at Granta and a regular writer for the magazine. In celebration, we have lifted the paywall on all her contributions to our pages.
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@themountaingoats.bsky.socialReposted by @sternbergh.bsky.socialcongratulations to my close personal friend* Anne Carson on her richly deserved Nobel *the poet I begged for a selfie at the national Book Awards
@sternbergh.bsky.socialnever forget
@sternbergh.bsky.socialRays about to sweep the Yankees in Yankees Stadium while wearing their “remember when we were a terrible expansion team” jerseys