HowtoBeAmazing

On the podcast, imagining the future. Stories by @raybradbury, #MichelFaber, and @NaomiKritzer read by Kathleen Chalfant, @samunderwoodnyc, and @NiaVardalos. And poet #TracyKSmith imagines a better world in “Sci-Fi,” performed by @valoriecurry. Listen at: symphonyspace.org/selected-short…

"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.” -- Leonard Cohen, born OTD 1934.

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We are back! Live tonight at 8pm ET @michaelianblack talks with @janemarielynch to benefit the @MTLRedding. Watch here: rb.gy/tgrygq

‘This is a shakedown.’ — Watch comedian @baratunde tear apart Trump’s entire impeachment defense

HOW TO BE AMAZING may be on hiatus, but Forbes loved it. Thanks! #726dd97e7494" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">forbes.com/sites/micahsol…

How do you document the end of someone’s life? Moving personal essay by @lynseyaddario about journalism and friendship and who gets to decide where the line is. nyti.ms/2Lt6x4L

There will be a time in your life when you realize… If you don’t stand up for something, for people other than yourself, then you might as well just sit down and shut up.

My recent work from the border with the great @itscaitlinhd nytimes.com/2019/09/29/us/…

Somehow the media manages to have incredibly low standards for Trump's job performance and impossibly high standards for his criminality.

The Trump campaign has made almost $1-million selling idiotic plastic straws to own the libs. We made a little video about what that temper tantrum tells us about why the world is #OnFire ...and why only a #GreenNewDeal can put out the flames. Watch:

Naomi has been presenting the case for urgent action on climate change for years. In titling her book #OnFire, she's being clever about how we need to respond, but not hyperbolic about what's happening with our planet.

This is gonna be good: "They are two scribes — an Irish bard and a Jewish bard — that perhaps only New York City could have produced. Tabloid legend and novelist Pete Hamill sits down with acclaimed Times reporter Clyde Haberman" jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/nyc-jewish-y-e…

There just aren't that many episodes left of OBSCURE, America's best-loved "Jude the Obscure" podcast. Now's the time to catch up before the BIG BIG FINALE!!! Get it where ya getchur 'casts.

If the environment were a bank it would have been saved already.

Comedian Margaret Cho: ‘I don’t want to be beholden to expectations anymore’ wapo.st/2z3AKkd?tid=ss…

Soon I will be finished with my podcast OBSCURE in which I read the entirety of Jude the Obscure and comment on it as I go. It is the project that has maybe given me the most dumb joy. Catch up before it’s over.

Proud to announce a new episode of OBSCURE is out today. Considerably less proud to announce it features @JoshMalina

a sublime "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," by the sublime @AudraEqualityMc: youtu.be/4J5gXGlkC3g #TheWizardOfOz