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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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Alexandra Jacobs
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Alexandra Jacobs
@AlexandraJacobs
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? شامل ہوئے Ağustos 2011
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@AlexandraJacobs It really was amazing, wasn't it? I'm not sure I took a breath while reading it.
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An amazing piece of the old school that would be well worth paying for, but why not get the freebie?
Jesse Barron@_jessebarron
Three more days to read this online at @GrantaMag before it slinks back into its paywall cave—
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“You’ll finish his secret history five pounds heavier but a little happier.”—@AlexandraJacobs nytimes.com/2026/03/15/boo…
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I love Liza and also think Barbra and Cher's big books set a high bar for celebrity memoir that this one didn't quite clear...not that it's a competish...but...
nytimes.com/2026/03/10/boo…
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“Groff is spilling so much salt right now, Morton should give her a jingle.”—@AlexandraJacobs nytimes.com/2026/02/22/boo…
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This is excellent + exactly right, from John Williams, former editor of WaPo's shuttered Book World theatlantic.com/books/2026/02/…
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“But you can take the measure of a man by the nicknames he is given as well as the ones he dishes out. Bennett was Sonny to his pops, Beans (as in ‘full of’) to college chums, Cerfie to his co-founder and closest friend...” — Alexandra Jacobs nytimes.com/2026/01/18/boo…
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"Most City Hall news conferences do not end with the mayor and his questioners posing for a picture."
Every sentence in this @grynbaum story is perfect nytimes.com/2026/01/07/bus…
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@nyttypos Sort of an old-fashioned “typesetting”-type typo...I can almost smell the hot wax.
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29 typos and style guide violations yesterday. Typo 1 of the day: Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro is a style guide violation and grammatical error for President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela. @AKurmanaev @tylerpager @viaSimonRomero @julieturkewitz
Typos of the New York Times@nyttypos
31 typos and style guide violations yesterday. Typos 1 and 2 of the day: did not responded is a bad typo for did not respond. Mid-sentence period before an attribution tag that should be a comma. @LFFriedman
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NEW: "Don’s Best Friend": Documents and interviews reveal the intense, complicated relationship between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were currency. nytimes.com/2025/12/18/us/…
A deep dive w/@JulieATate:
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The power of diaries—a form on the wane. “Journaling” is not the same.
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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Arthur L. Carter, 93, Dies; Investment Banker Founded a Cheeky Newspaper
Rest in peach.
Obit by the great @samrob12
nytimes.com/2025/12/12/bus…
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Find me a more elegant rapier than @AlexandraJacobs 😎Your review of Nuzzi is delicious.
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"At one point contracted to write a book together, Nuzzi and Lizza seem conjoined in rivalry for custody of their story. And we’re trapped in a digital-age Dickensian serial." nytimes.com/2025/12/02/boo…
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The Mitford for our moment. nytimes.com/2025/11/23/boo…
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