Mark O’Connell
@mrkocnnll
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Writer of A Thread of Violence (2023), Notes from an Apocalypse (2020), To Be a Machine (2017) Agent: [email protected] (UK); [email protected] (US)
Dublin
Joined February 2009
Huge congratulations to Laszlo Krasznahorkai on starting a twitter account like eight hours ago. A classic Laszlo Krasznahorkai thing to do, I think we can all agree.
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Got it. I'm sorry for your loss. Here's a eulogy you could use or adapt for your friend Shawn, highlighting your long friendship and his role as best man in your wedding:
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“You’re still a fan of Taylor Swift? Because at 37, it’s marginal right?”
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Apparently if you crush your set at Riyadh, MbS will invite over to the couch and tee you up on a few more bits.
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Eliot Weinberger on how he learned to write and why he dropped out of Yale to travel:
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Mike Ehrmantraut IS literally one of the top peak character! 💯💯💯
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Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said the party's participation in the Presidential Election campaign will be a 'gamechanger'
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you'd never catch graham norton monologuing about some geek like charlie kirk. one or two gentle quips about the week's news and then it's straight onto the red sofa with judi dench, kevin hart and the lads from elbow.
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But they also invented jazz and punk rock and rap music, so it’s complicated
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If I had to describe the USA to a person who’d never heard of it I’d say it was a country where a guy famous for arguing online got assassinated, and where people expressed grief by purchasing his favourite flavoured coffee and then other people got in trouble for ridiculing them
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I guess it would be pretty funny if someone lost their job to a lefty cancellation mob circa 2017, listened and learned — and then got cancelled by a right-wing mob in 2025. A sort of “struck by lightning twice” situation. Beyond that, I don’t see much good coming of this.
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Just tell me the thing. Don’t tell me the thing and then say “and it’s not even close”. I don’t want to hear that
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“It is often said that many nonfiction books should really have been magazine articles; this one feels like a LinkedIn post mercilessly stretched to nearly three hundred pages.” —@mrkocnnll on Palantir’s founder’s first book
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Last year, according to a recent report in The New York Times, Alexander Karp received a total of $6.8 billion for his services as CEO of the data
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