For @Hazlitt I interviewed Jack Nicholson about “the biggest adventure of his career” & went to Spain to locate Michelangelo Antonioni’s Hotel de la Gloria, along the way the news of #AnthonyBourdain arrived: https://t.co/af7ljNDcoA #longreads (huge thanks to @jordanginsberg)

On the latest episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Author and journalist Brin-Jonathan Butler (@brinicio) chronicles the disturbing history of chess’ greatest players and those obsessed with the game. Watch on YouTube and listen on podcast platforms now. https://t.co/z6qWAHCSSd

Really enjoyed this conversation about my book and the world of chess with one of my journalistic heroes @ChrisLynnHedges: https://t.co/ziLk31h6gv

.@anamariecox on Olivia Nuzzi. Some of the insights on children of alcoholics alone completely floored me and unriddled about 20 years of behavior patterns I didn’t pick up on about myself until a few years ago. https://t.co/ERyt2LcGLm

Spoke with Michael Lewis about Who Is Government, Big Beautiful Bill, Doge, Luigi Mangione, and more uplifting and cheerful topics animating our blissful republic: https://t.co/moXurOHz1U

Stanley Kubrick called 1988’s The Vanishing the most terrifying film he had ever seen. Had a conversation with Jim Shepard about his amazing Believer piece exploring why that is: https://t.co/L71UDPAxn0

This week I spoke to Cian O’Clery, director and show-runner for Love on the Spectrum. While it’s marketed as reality TV it’s absent competition, riches, a recording deal, cringe zero sum battle. And yet the stakes feel impossibly high regarding love: https://t.co/KwcD3w8chZ

Spoke with David Gessner about his new book on the world’s most famous owl, Flaco. The Book Of Flaco tells his story. It’s awfully good: https://t.co/9YFkkP5kuD

Can’t believe it’s been 24 years since this clip of the best robot dance of all time dropped

10 years ago I asked George Foreman if he had any interest in talking about Teofilo Stevenson. He immediately invited me down to his home to Houston. Such a generous, kind spirit and just an incredible character. RIP Big George 🥊 https://t.co/2BGu0zmSUI

Spoke with @Adita_Ferrer about her wonderful Pulitzer-winning book Cuba: An American History. https://t.co/3g7bq1OGhM

This week I spoke with A.L. Kennedy (@Writerer) about her remarkable book On Bullfighting, which was just rereleased on audiobook. The book covers so much fantastic history of Spain, Lorca, duende, and explores writing on such a vital level: https://t.co/ndxk1gcj8i

Last year I visited Havana and 2 heartbreaking jokes floated around: "What does a Cuban child dream of becoming when they grow up? A foreigner. What do you call a Cuban orchestra after a world tour? A soloist." I wrote about what I saw for @JournalYear: https://t.co/8lYdHQFTlF

@jzux For a 3 day novel writing contest, wrote a book about a girl I rode the bus with for 3 years, but never spoke to, as a kid. She read it at 27 and flew nearly 4400 miles to see me, hoping we would get married.

@BenPurkert Handwritten note from a major publisher rejecting my first (awful) novel, submitted at age 20: “This is the wrong book, however I believe you’re in the right profession.”

“You go to an auction & out comes the Picasso, dead silence. Once the hammer comes down on the price, applause. We live in a world where they applaud the price but not the Picasso.” -Fran Lebowitz #PretendItsACity

New #ESPNDaily, with @brinicio: Why one shocking loss sparked the wild cheating scandal consuming chess. What larger questions it all raises about a 1,500-year-old game. And whether anal beads (allegedly) upset the greatest grandmaster of all time 🎧♟️ https://t.co/zNOS65kFgp

Thank you @briankoppelman and I agree entirely about @MagnusCarlsen…

Had a conversation with Gary Smith, one of the great profilers ever in sports writing, about his craft, new book, and why everything about him and his work seems so unlike everyone else in the game: https://t.co/KUoFzVNtHt https://t.co/bN4X7NRB2D

Kid Chocolate in Havana, one of the most magical places I’ve ever experienced, demolished to make room for a luxury hotel 🙁 wrote about it for @parisreview below: https://t.co/qWjTRUKw7k

A special 90 minute episode of Tourist Information with @louistheroux covering his 25 year career in television and his candid (& rather dark) memoir Gotta Get Theroux This. Maybe a new lens into one of the world’s favorite filmmaking personalities: https://t.co/7PGrF3Zez3