Alexandra Jacobs
@AlexandraJacobs
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Book critic at The New York Times; author of STILL HERE: The Madcap, Nervy, Singular Life of Elaine Stritch.
NYC—what is it about you?
Joined August 2011
The 5 stages of writing: 1)This is gonna be so great. 2)No story here; what was I thinking. 3)Existential despair. 4)Smugness. 5)Corrections
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“‘Somehow things happened, odd things, when Muriel was around,’ said Shirley Hazzard . . .”—from the review by @AlexandraJacobs
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A crackling new biography captures the formidable personality and often eerie writings of the “Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” creator Muriel Spark.
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Rest in pizza. Marilyn Hagerty, Whose Olive Garden Review Went Viral, Dies at 99
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“The chicken Alfredo ($10.95) was warm and comforting on a cold day,” she wrote from North Dakota. And suddenly the national media made her a celebrity.
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“I can conjure up old slights with an elephantine recall, while being unable to even faintly discern the outlines of a compliment.” — Sally Mann
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Now 74 and “close to handing in my dinner pail,” the photographer recalls old slights, home remedies and balancing art and children in a new memoir.
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“When Jackson was confirmed in 2022, [Coney Barrett] served Jackson’s favorite dishes and asked a Broadway performer to sing selections from ‘Hamilton.’” Brilliant, judicious @jenszalai on the latest SCOTUS memoir. https://t.co/4kvYplylgk
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In a studiously bland new book, “Listening to the Law,” the Supreme Court justice describes her legal philosophy and tries to sidestep the court’s recent controversies.
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She Raged. She Terrified. And She Shaped Arundhati Roy. The prizewinning novelist’s unsparing memoir, “Mother Mary Comes to Me,” captures the eventful life and times of her mother, a driven educator and imperfect inspiration. @AlexandraJacobs
https://t.co/HatCyq5jFB
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The prizewinning novelist’s unsparing memoir, “Mother Mary Comes to Me,” captures the eventful life and times of her mother, a driven educator and imperfect inspiration.
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NEW EPISODE: New York Times book critics @JenniferSzalai and @AlexandraJacobs join co-hosts @Wsterrell and @V_V_G to discuss their recent article, “Love Jack Kerouac? Read These Great American Road Trip Books Next.” @lithub
https://t.co/nGAUzG9RXG
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New York Times book critics Jennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs join co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss their recent article, “Love Jack Kerouac? Read These Great American…
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"More people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living," says @RonCharles. For @worldlittoday, I spoke with freelance and full-time book critics about the vanishing professional market for book reviews. (Link in thread b/c Twitter wants it there.)
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A hotly anticipated, star-studded PRINT magazine launch — it really is the stuff of history now. "The magazine's fusion of politics and pop culture foreshadowed a reality-show presidency," the NYT's Alexandra Jacobs writes in this story
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A CNN documentary and an upcoming series by Ryan Murphy delve into the nation’s most famous son, who remains fixed in the 1990s.
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MODERATOR: Are you willing to commit to NOT raise the sales tax? MIKIE SHERRILL: I'm not going to commit to anything right now. On Nov. 4, vote NO on Mikie Sherrill. ❌
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My brain is befogged in every other way so cannot account for this strange 3-day streak Wordle 1,509 2/6* ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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It's OK, Chris... I'm watching you too! I'm just not a coward trying to hide it.
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I have plunged headlong into the Didion discourse https://t.co/dLmYLpmLhb
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Drawn from her previously unpublished reflections on sessions with a therapist, “Notes to John” is at once slightly sordid and utterly fascinating.
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