My book CUBAFRUIT is available for pre-order!https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKY64F77email me about whatever! would you like some handmade missive of thanks and goodwill? send me a hello, belowTHOUSANDMOVIEPROJECT AT GMAIL DOT COMtell me a little about yourself, ask whatever, share a theory--then add your mailing address and i'll respond forthhaste…

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wherein the narrator uses some imaginative and maps, in 13 points, how Donald Trump's mass deportation thing will fall apart and be abandoned within weeks.......help the show along by preordering my book CUBAFRUIT for $3.99 here:https://a.co/d/1Zi0H4nemail me about whatever ya likethousandmovieproject at gmail…

Wherein the narrator tries to not think of Trump by reading horrific true crime stories and decides none of this is really a great idea.The reddit thread: Scariest True Crime Story You've Ever Heardhttps://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/0zueaLwUkPMy books CUBAFRUIT is available for pre-order! Just $3.99 before publication!Cubafruit https://a.co/d/fbC…

Donald Trump's election last night portends social, economic, and geopolitical crises. Here, succinct as possible, are some of the biggest threats......My book CUBAFRUIT is available for pre-order here:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKY64F77?ref_=cm_sw_r_mwn_dp_3ZQEIW35SK6Z6W7AD7WG_2&starsLeft=1&skipTwisterOG=1&language=en_US.....email me about whatev…

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Wherein the narrator gets out finally and votes, early, but at the last possible hour.My book CUBAFRUIT is available for pre-order at $3.99! Every sale helps the Amazon algorithm show it to other readers, and gives a chance for bestsellerdom on release day! Pre-order now and send me a screenshot of your receipt for a proper thanks in the mail!https…

Wherein the narrator talks about the latest piece by a New Yorker Magazine favorite, Jay Caspian-Kang, who talks about Donald Trump's targeting of Gen Z men: their wayward resentments, their hearts, their vote...My book CUBAFRUIT is available for pre-order! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKY64F77?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_YDGZZY21X53QCQNQ22TV_3&starsLeft=…

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In which New York Times columnist David Brooks reminds us, in a new article, that everything is broken and will never get better--prompting, by accident, some questions about the point of what columnists even do.My book CUBAFRUIT is available for preorder here!https://a.co/d/c5XmAhLWanna reach out?thousandmovieproject at gmail…

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Transcripts for this and other episodes are available at bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com(Help the show/newsletter by subscribing!)Get in touch via email:thousandmovieproject at gmailBig announcement: 9 days.Af Alexander Sorondo

Breaking down Jay Caspian-King's fantastic piece in this week's New Yorker, about media bias. The transcript for this and other episodes can be found atbigreaderbadgrades.substack.com (subscribe!)email me about whatever!thousandmovieproject at gmailAf Alexander Sorondo

Not a proper episode, just a quick note on something I read this week and thought was pretty strong, enjoyable, timely and incisive. New proper episode tomorrow and, until then, you can read this and other episode transcripts below (and subscribe!)bigreaderbadgrades.substack.comChat with me about whatever!thousandmovieproject at gmail…

Wherein the narrator talks about Kamala Harris's huge improvement as an interview subject, in just the past three weeks, and compares it with some tangential things he's learned about President Biden between two books: WHAT IT TAKES, the 1,500-page tome focusing partly on Joe Biden's 1988 presidential campaign, and WAR, Bob Woodward's latest (still…

Wherein the narrator, for lack of news awareness, talks about the differences and similarities between two writers who were very relevant when he was younger. get in touch!thousandmovieproject at gmailAf Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator takes the permission of two pundits, riffs about some shady sanewashing in the Ts of NY, and finally, like any decent low-watt broadcaster, brings it all back to aliens.You can read the transcript for this and other episodes at BIG READER BAD GRADES (do me a kindness! subscribe!)bigreaderbadgrades.substack.comwanna tell me some…

Wherein the narrator talks about a personal emergency (ish), some recent insights from Ross Douthat, and others from Jill Lepore. Transcripts for this and other episodes are available at BIG READER BAD GRADES, on substack (do me a kindness! subscribe!)bigreaderbadgrades.substack.comfeel free to reach out!thousandmovieproject at gmail…

In which Kamala Harris makes a great pitch, in the wrong direction, and Donald Trump -- frustrated at his Democratic rival raising $1 billion in just three months -- pursues the most sensible solution possible: berating his donors.Af Alexander Sorondo

Something Personal, Something Political. It's been a stressful week at the grocery store, and politics afford no respite. Here's a decidedly lower-tech episode, acapella, in the interest of resuming the rhythm and getting things out. Read transcripts of the show on Substack (free!)bigreaderbadgrades.substack.comemail: thousandmovieroject at gmail…

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tinkered with this disaster for 4 days, thinking there was something to salvage, but ad a gesture of peacemaking and personal release I surrender it out and on we go...support the show, check out the ebook, it's free*!~~~~~*unless you wanna pay for it*~~~talk at me!:email: thousandmovieproject at Gmailinsta: @thousandmoviepod…

The (partial) eBook is here!Download free or pay what you want athttps://ko-fi.com/s/4f4999c591It's my 33rd birthday and what was supposed to be an easy-peasy recording, with just a quick intro and then a brief reading from the ebook, turned into this long, searching, semi-confessional thing that came somewhat out of nowhere--but is also reflective…

The TMPP ebook sample drops Wednesday, April 24th, on Ko-Fi -- but, until then, you can support the show by dropping in a tip!https://ko-fi.com/thousandmoviepodExperimenting with this digital tip jar thing. Selling various digital/tangible goods that work as great euphemisms for "donation."~~~chat me up but GOOD viaemail: thousandmovieproject at Gm…

The TMPP ebook sample drops Wednesday, April 24th, on Ko-Fi -- but, until then, you can support the show by dropping in a tip!https://ko-fi.com/thousandmoviepodExperimenting with this digital tip jar thing. Selling various digital/tangible goods that work as great euphemisms for "donation."~~~chat me up but GOOD viaemail: thousandmovieproject at Gm…

The TMPP ebook sample drops Wednesday, April 24th, on Ko-Fi.https://ko-fi.com/thousandmoviepodExperimenting with this digital tipjar thing. Selling various digital/tangible goods that work as great euphemisms for "donation."~~~chat me up but GOOD viaemail: thousandmovieproject at Gmailinsta: @thousandmoviepod…

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Training a new hire shed slight on a trend I've noticed in every retail/hospitality job I've ever had. email: thousandmovieproject at gmailinstagram: @thousandmoviepodAf Alexander Sorondo

April is PEOPRIL! A month of reading about life-writing: memoir, biography, autobiography.The narrator describes his plans, shares some news, and eeks his way back onto the rhythm here.Af Alexander Sorondo

Beginninig with avid praise for Rose Glass's new crime movie, LOVE LIES BLEEDING, and transitioning into a conversation about how she and I apparently spring from the "peak millennial" camp, of people born between 1990 and 1992, before dissolving in talk about this new memoir by Bev Stol, Noam Chomsky's 24-year assistant/manager/coordinator, and th…

Wherein the narrator talks, among other things, about a new appreciation for Doja Cat, his favorite new artist on Instagram, and the how the Spice Girls nearly shattered the He-Man Woman Haters Club.check out @brianhuntress on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brianhuntresss/email: thousandmoviepod at gmail dot cominstagram: @thousandmoviepod…

Wherein the narrator talks about recent reading, including some negotiation tactics from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, and a quick anecdote about one of the most unbearable people he's ever met.instagram: @thousandmoviepodemail: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot comAf Alexander Sorondo

George Saunders joins for a conversation about Michael Silverblatt, the former host of BOOKWORM. Silverblatt had to retire in 2022 for medical reasons, ending BOOKWORM's 33-year run. Saunders, one of the most venerated writers in America (TENTH OF DECEMBER, LIBERATION DAY, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO), was a regular guest on BOOKWORM starting in 1997 - an…

Matt Singer @superpulse joins me for today's episode of the pod, the first after a two-week break, to discuss his wonderful biography of film critics Gene Siskel, Roger Ebert, and the show that changed TV, film, criticism and media.Buy OPPOSABLE THUMBS here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710246/opposable-thumbs-by-matt-singer/email: thou…

YouTube's Daniel Greene, who makes content revolving almost exclusively around things that don't interest the narrator at all, happens to've lured the narrator into several years of regular viewing.mentioned along the way: Mark Z. Danielewski's grocery war stories, SISKEL & EBERT, Slavoj Zizek's sitcom theory.email: thousandmovieproject at Gmailins…

David Remnick, editor-in-chief of THE NEW YORKER, has a new book out, called HOLDING THE NOTE, a collection of essays on older musicians in the latter parts of their careers -- it's an absolute delight, and reveals some unintentional goods about the author.email: thousandmovieproject at gmailinstagram: thousandmoviepod…

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Matt, from the YouTube channel "Thrift a Life," and Furious Pete from his own self-titled channel were already practiced vloggers when a lifechange came along, and with the skills and habits in tow, they brought their audience along for it.email: thousandmovieproject at gmaildotcominstagram: @thousandmoviepod…

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